Do you write diary everyday in Japanese?

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1. I tried to. I went to my local Kinokuniya and bought a book to write in every day (the one with a larger line size to fit kanji). I wrote one journal entry, and then stopped.

   I do need to practice output, and I believe journaling is an excellent way to do that, but I am having trouble starting. Luckily for me I am in no rush to reach fluency. Perhaps this sense of non-urgency is what is keeping from doing my daily journaling.

2. 多分悪い考えではない、特に本当の人と話すのがまだ怖い場合に。でも、例えばChatGPTに今日はどうだったか言う方がいいじゃない？たしかにホントな人間ではないけど、なにかレスを読めるならもっと勉強になるじゃない？ただのボットだから人間と話すほど恥ずかしくもないし。

3. I do, I think we need to practice Japanese in reading, writing, speaking AND listening, and it’s an easy routine to get yourself practicing writing every day. Also, everyone’s goals are different, so for me, while I want to be fluent in speaking Japanese and practice that too, it’s most important to me that I can read and write well.

4. I used to in high school, about half a year after I started learning. After high school, it became a less frequent thing. It became more relegated documenting major incidents. I’ve also tried writing a movie journal, but that’s also not an everyday thing since I don’t watch movies every day. Even if I did, I don’t always have much to say.

   As an alternative, I started a sort of micro-journal with a Twitter-themed app called TwiMemo to document thoughts more casually throughout the day. So far, I’ve mostly been keeping my thoughts about the progression of a VN I’m currently reading. I suspect I’ll be able to output more consistently with this just because I’m always tempted to keep my thoughts organized in a journal format. With this, I feel more at ease spitting out whatever’s on my mind on the spot.

   Plus since this isn’t being published online, I can be as sentimental, whiny, or unhinged as I want to be without any repercussions.

5. It is very useful I agree. I’ve never written for practice. I’ve only wrote to communicate since the beginning and that ended up being my practice (writing to communicate pressures you to produce the highest quality writing possible) and for the most part I write everyday in comments, discord, etc. It may range from 0 sentences a day to 200 sentences a day. For things like testing stuff out, bug reports, commissions, etc. I may end up writing as much as 25-50k characters.

6. coincidentally, i just started doing so this week! i’m still figuring out how i wanna structure it so my entries look a bit different every day, but so far i write down a bit of what i did in the day in question, what the previous day was, and what the next day is, as a way to practice grammar, some kanji, and various activities/days of the week.

   i’ve found it to be a lot of fun, and it could totally just be placebo but some of my Kanji already looks better than it did in just six entries, so i think it’s a very valuable method of practice and retention. plus, journaling itself is already great, so now i have another excuse to do so 🙂‍↕️

7. i’ve been writing out my grievances in google docs in essay format, and will continue working on one for as long as i feel like. explaining a whole situation, psychoanalyzing someone or myself, reflecting on my life etc. it’s a lot more involved than a daily journal entry type of writing and forces me to use complex grammar to properly express myself

8. I got a notebook and started writing every new kanji or word from my anki cards;(sometimes also old ones I don’t remember well), i think it’s nice to help me remember, practice calligraphy and retain+understand new complex characters

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