A couple of my friends have asked me about verbs recently: about verb groups, or dictionary forms, or negative conjugations. I have made some Gflash card sets to kick off about verb groups and dictionary forms. You can find them by searching for Ishi No Ue in the Gflash catalogue, or if you have a [...]
I have started making flashcards for the new words I meet. This turns out to be much more useful — in terms of me being able to remember the stuff I look up, and practice it and for getting rid of the annoying lists-of-words posts that I was doing.
If you use gFlash flashcards (on your [...]
I got some more gems today from my ever-obliging students:
埋まる（うまる） — be buried; be filled up with. ５．３０のレッスンはもう埋まってる。 部屋は人々で埋まってた。メモが多くて余白がすっかり埋まってしまった。 >> 余白（よはく）= blank space // すっかり= utterly: as in すっかり忘れていた。
貢献（こうけん） — contribution; service. ~する — contribute;
整理（せいり） — arrangement. ~する — arrange, adjust, regulate, put in order. 部屋を整理する。
操る（あやつる） — manage, handle, manipulate. 英語を自由にアヤツル — have a good command of English; 人を自由に操る — [...]