Singularity on the Plane

This is Morning Musume’s 15th single. An energetic song (oh, with some rap!) and one of my favorites.

12 new kanji:

普迷宙悟途符宇簡訪嘩喧叶

Song stats:

• Previous “average new words/song”: 21.14
• New words in this song: 21
• New “average new words/song”: 21.13

And the words themselves:

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This is from Matsuura Aya’s 19th single (lyrics). Aya’s songs are usually very nice to hear, and this one is no exception.

There are 6 new kanji:

針激還傷故噛

The obligatory song stats:

• Previous “average new words/song”: 21.57
• New words in this song: 12
• New “average new words/song”: 21.14

Here are the words themselves:

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Aozora Bunko is a website that contains copyright-expired Japanese books. Some time ago, I hunted in its main page. For this word dump, the source is from the library card page of “Wagahai wa Neko de aru”. It is one of main works of the famous writer Natsume Soseki.

So, will I continue by reading the book itself? I’ve downloaded the file, but now I think I’ll tackle easier (kanji-wise) learning materials first.

There are 27 new kanji:

摩慶虞凍聚筑享峰瘍幹帝江永歳備誌没瀬眠職潰柴枕鞭卓圧坊

And 43 new words:

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Aozora Bunko is a website that contains copyright-expired Japanese books. Some time ago, I hunted in its main page. For this word dump, the source is from the first page of row wa (わ行) of its book catalogue. I learned lots of book and people names.

There are 46 new kanji:

吾描旧彦徳杉淡淳枝構宝宰孤宗寅幾序寛崎藍裁菫薄論郎霊譚賢篇精漱犯納芥菊織翻与也僚伊之割判俗倫

And 74 new words (including people’s names):

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Again, I changed my kanjification policy. Previously I tried to kanjify all words from top to bottom. Now, I skip those that require kanji outside the Jouyou kanji. This should give me a higher return of investment since I will learn the (supposedly) more common kanji first. I could always come back to those that I skipped later…

I kanjified 17 words on my word list. In the process I learned 14 new kanji:

瓜雑咲涼靴梨棒亀桃酸富竜寸箒

Here are the 17 words:

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Random words and kanji are those that I randomly encounter, for example while watching a movie. A notable source for the current dump is guidetojapanese.org. (I read it to learn some grammars but naturally a bunch of kanji stood in the way)

Side-effect words are dictionary words that I picked when learning a new kanji from another dump. For example, I encountered 激しい (hageshii, intense) while hunting from a song. 激 was a new kanji for me, and to know its on-reading I searched for some compounds in the dictionary. Those compounds, e.g. 激化 (gekika, intensification) are considered side-effect words because they are not in the original material.

There are 40 new kanji:

尿喋倚焦訊減寝辛屈寿嘲咸漲愉蘇供覆滑頼濁罵糖徹忙套伏乳握厄授冓蹴快遮籍捨椅儀捻格

And 670 words:

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