Monox D. I-Fly's Japanese and Arabic Log

[Monox D. I-Fly]

On the mention for BliuBliu, that reminded me of another free vocabulary, requires registration, site that I have came across called Delvin Langauge. It is good listening and typing practice.

http://delvinlanguage.com/

For now I don't have time to practice listening and typing. Thanks for the link, though. It may be proven useful as a Chekhov's Gun someday.

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Oops, sorry. Forgot to add this despite it has been made 6 days ago:

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Back then I didn't know what the Kanji 岩 meant. It was 山 (yama = mountain) on top of 石 (ishi = stone), so I guessed that the meaning was "hill", and my least guess was "rock". Turned out my least guess was right instead.
On Arabic note, the word for "rock" is "jalmud". I had a hard time associating it with any words I knew at first, but since rocks are mineral and on the ground, I assoeciated "jalmud" with "jewel and mud".

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Found it in my Japanese-language Arabic learning book. I know the Arabis is Jaamuusun (Jawaamiisu) which means "buffalo". Also, the Kanji are 水 (water) and 牛 (cow). However, I don't know how to read 水牛. Is it "mizuushi", "mizugyuu", "suiushi", or "suigyuu"? A water cow means a buffalo still makes sense, though, I and my brother made a joke about it.
Me: "I read in my Japanese-language Arabic learning book that "jaamus" which means "buffalo", in Japanese has the Kanji of "water" and "cow". I don't know how to read it, though. Is it "mizuushi", "mizugyuu", "suiushi", or "suigyuu"?"
My brother: "It seems that it is "suigyuu"."
Me: "Buffalo being called as water cow still makes sense, though."
My brother: "Hmmm... Right..."
Me: "I remember when watching a TV series, the comis relief summoned a water buffalo, then what cames down was a hippo."
My brother: "What?"
Me: "Yeah, and hippos aren't even buffaloes! They are horses (the Indonesian word for "hippo" is "kuda nil", which literally means "Nile horse")! Emmm... Actually, they are pigs..."

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The Japanese word for "fish" is "sakana", while its Arabic is "samakun". This time I also made a joke using the word "sakana" with my brother.
Me: "The Japanese word for "fish" is "sakana", while its Arabic is "samakun". That is close enough."
My brother: "Hmmm..."
Me: "But... To memorize the word "sakana" both in Arabic and Japanese I used the sentence "Fish lives in water.".
My brother: "Huh? What is the Arabic for "lives"?"
Me: ""Sakana"."
My brother: "Haha... Right, I remembered when during a class, my professor posed a question "Who knows the meaning of "sakana"? I spontaneously raised my finger and answered "Fish, sir!". Everyone stared at me with confusion, then I just realized that it was Arabic class..."

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The Arabic word for "near" is قريب (qoriib), which Indonesians absorbed as "karib". However, the word "karib" in Indonesian doesn't straight out mean "near". It is only used in some phrases like "sahabat karib" which literally means "close friend". On the opposite side of the spectrum, the Arabic word for "far" is بعيد (ba'iid), which sounds like "banget" (the Indonesian slang word for "very") a bit. So, to memorize this word, I use the phrase "very far", translating "very" with "banget" and "far" with بعيد to get "ba'iid banget".

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The Arabic word for "strong" is قوي, which has the same root as قوة (power). It helps that the word قوة (quwwat) has been absorbed to Indonesian as "kuat" which means "strong" (قوي = qowiy).
On a side note, the name of Indonesian president was known as Jokowi. Using "jo" from the Kanji "ue (up)" = 上 (I know that the Kanji "ue = up" can be read as "jo" thanks to the Ninja ranks in Naruto), and قوي which means "strong (強)", I like to playfully write his name as 上強.

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The word "steam" has the Kanji 汽 which is read as "ki", while the word "gas" has the Kanji 気 and is also read as "ki". "Steam" consists of "gas" added with the radical "sanzui" (シ) makes sense, considering that steam = gas + water. However, I still can't understand why the radical which looks like the Katakana for me (メ) was left out from the Kanji 気. What is the meaning of that radical, anyway? What is present in gas abut absent in steam?

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The Kanji for the word "bow" (yumi) is 弓, which does look like a bow. I wonder, though, why it alongside with the Kanji 虫 (mushi = insect) are present in the Kanji 強 (tsuyo = strong).

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Ugh... Having a hard time memorizing the Kanji 帰 (kae = back). The left part looks like the Katakana for "ri" (リ) and the top right part looks like the Katakane for "yo" (ヨ). As for the bottom right part, it looks like... a mosquito's head?