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Who even are you, Saph?

I am a tenth grade student from Compass and this is my first year here! I want to keep the school alive so others can be freed from the hardships and mistreatment of public schools; and so i signed up for this Thirty For Thirty challenge! I would consider myself a positive ball of energy, except not before breakfast I can be hangry. I want to move to Japan after college for I want to teach western arts in Japan (an eastern country), so I want to start early since I have looked into it and it's best to learn a language as young as you can (no, I don't have a time machine). So with all this in mind, I am here to learn the Language as far as possible by studying thirty minutes a day for thirty days!

April 1st of 2025:

I had a lot of free time during study hall due to being caught up with most of my other work, so I chose to take thirty minutes to participate in my challenge! I started with covering the sounds that one of the main three alphabets are: Hiragana. Hiragana has 46 letters to remember, and that's just the basic ones!! I used my whole 30 minutes to cover all 46!

These are the 46 characters i studied today!

If you also want to learn Japanese I recommend the app I am using! it is called JA Sensei! so much better than anything else.

April 4th of 2025

Sadly, i hadn't been able to study as i planned on the 2nd and 3rd of April: so to make sure i made up that total of an hour plus the half hour for the current 4th of April i used my entire study hall block and half of my Lunch to study the Japanese language. i felt i failed the challenge in a sense but i had been quite sick with a stomach flu i caught from my girlfriend, so i feel it was out of my control. I took the time to study for an hour and a half non-stop to make sure i made up for the days I had missed. I also apologize to anyone who was looking forward to my blog updates on those days! Either way i continued to make myself more understanding of 46 hiragana, and also started to look at the sounds of the second base alphabet called katakana. Katakana is basically a way to write words that aren't from Japanese, like how we "Spanish" when those who are Spanish say "Espanol" instead. i worked on some of the "variants" during the second half hour and tried my best at attempting to write the hiragana; definitively more difficult than recognition.

Before this hour and a half study i had one red line of Hiragana basic recognition, everything else was achieved today. it was very difficult for me to focus for that long and ignore wanting to eat lunch. Well, by the end of the hour and a half i did eat lunch and it was delicious, thank you Cher! (Katakana also has 46 basics)

April 9th of 2025

Over the past five days i didn't have my computer and time to update the blog at the same time, so here I am updating it now. Luckily JA Sensei, the beloved app I am using is on my phone; meaning I did my thirty minutes over the last five days. I decided to start on the main focus lessons to help me start a vocabulary and overall understanding of Japan such as the landscape, religions, past, and cultural normal. I noticed that formality and changing how you talk drastically depending on who you are talking to is a huge part of the culture. Each of the main focus lessons took me about twenty to thirty minutes, so on days I had more time I reviewed Hiragana and expanded my understanding of Katakana.

These are separate images because my phone is small and I had to take multiple screenshots to show it all. also, on Monday April 7th I didn't do a mainstream lesson and instead focused on practicing pronunciation(no the main focus on pronunciation but rather the exercises of it available elsewhere on the app). The Japanese "R" is there to haunt me; I swear it shouldn't even be called the Japanese "R" its more like "D" and "L" had some fusioned spite against me, it's horrid.

April 28th of 2025

So, why is there such a timestamp gap? well, there was a break and then the week after I had a troublesome computer for a week; so I was unable to go onto this Google site. Luckily JA Sensei is on mobile, so I did do my thirty minutes a day. there's a lot so i'll post images and stop making you read because if I were to write for each thing I did I would get carpal tunnel.

this is basically a summary of the work I got done, I did attempt lesson seven but was confused. so a few days spent with nothing to show for my effort.

Final submission: April 30th of 2025

Does anyone even read this far? well, if you did than thanks for paying attention to my thirty day challenge! I was working on a more hands on Japanese culture work rather than the language. I made a Japanese Obi which is a part of a kimono(Japanese traditional wear). I didn't have a sewing machine so each stitch was by hand. I used JA Sensei for the directions and my waist width for the measurement.

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