June 2024

June 2024 monthly update

Quick summary:

We published 20 new Phase Three Units and reached Milestone 38 on NativShark while adding two newsletters to the archive here on the help site.
We fixed various typos and some styling issues that were reported by our fellow learners in the Discord community.
We released two new Japanese with Niko videos!

And now the details:

Japanese with Niko

We haven't talked about these too much yet, but there is a nice backlog on this channel now if you want to check out some Japanese-learning videos from Niko ^^

Niko covers his studies up to this point, shares tips for learning Japanese, and goes over / teaches some Japanese in every video.

No matter where you are in your Japanese journey, I'm sure you'll find some helpful tidbits in there for you. Be sure to check it out!

Here are the two videos he released this month:

Bad Japanese learning advice everywhere

Japanese Pronunciation Training: Articulation

Units

We published 20 new Phase Three Units (Units 228-247) this month, containing...

85 lesson sentences
252 new vocab sentences
20 Dialogues

As usual, all are filled with context-appropriate language and naturally spoken audio ^^

We released Milestone 38 this month:

Milestone 38:
Hidden meanings
You know the less commonly taught meanings of common words.

We also released a nice handful of new progression badges:

Unit 228:
XYX Patterns
You've seen how a single word is often repeated in a sentence.

Unit 236:
From Here
You can use から to describe perspectives.

Unit 239:
School Events
You know the major events at schools in Japan.

Unit 243:
Yakuza
You know about the "gangsters" of Japan.

Unit 247:
ございます
You know more of the backstory of this common word ending.

Newsletter Archive

We added the following past newsletters to the help site archive:

Your next Japan trip: where should you go??

Recommendations for Japan's must-visit city (Kyoto)

Fixes

Fixed formatting issues on various places of the app site.
Fixed missing highlights on some kanji flashcards, and adjusted some mnemonics to be more clear.
Fixed some typos in the context of several vocab cards.
Adjusted some definitions on similar cards to help clear potential confusion (菌 and ばい菌)
Fixed some incorrect formality markers.
Adjustments to some translations to make them more natural to the given context.