Let's play together! ♡ とびだせどうぶつの森

It took me ages to put this together and I hope that I didn't leave out anything important, when I share with you today, all the things you can do with the mulitplayer options in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Just like you could visit your friends town in Wild World all these years prior there is no way this feature would be missing in the next title of the main series. In fact the glut of possibilities to enjoy this game with or due to other players is immense and I will try to explain the basics of most of them today.

Landscaping ♡ とびだせどうぶつの森

After changing my last dreamie, Molly, perforce (there was no patience I could possibly serve with anymore), I finally found a lovely person via twitter, who I will adopt Marina from tomorrow, which means Faylea will finally have all its residents and I can start to landscape effectively after changing my mind about how a hundered times already.

On this occassion, I thought it was time to bring up the next part of that sector here, where I answer unasked questions and share tips and tricks about Animal Crossing: New Leaf (I just need a more or less reasonable output for all the knowledge I gathered obsessively).

So today, I will share a handful of things that come to my mind when thinking about how to plan and landscape your town.

漢字、ひらがな、カタカナ ♡ Studying Japanese

As many of you know very well by now, I'm an undergraduate student in Japanese studies, which includes language classes and since my dear fellow blogger Jessie from Bijou Heart asked me about it, I decided to put up a small something for everyone, who wants to study Japanese or is studying Japanese or just generally interested in this kind of stuff: 

How do I study for my Japanese classes?

Generally, I should start with explaining, that I was always rather strong in the academic language/fine arts field, which means - for example - that I learned my second language, English, rather easily (this does not so much apply for my third language, French, that I learned for 6 years but can't remember nor use most of now, whatsoever).

Also, I'm a really ambitious student, which means that I study and work a lot.

But that's something, I honestly think you need to do if you want to do well in a language, that you can't practise as much in your everyday life (at least if you're not living in a community with a large number of Japanese members, that form an inviroment where you're forced and/or encouraged to practise and use what you've learned). 

I will focus on written Japanese and how to study kana and kanji, since the different alphabet appears to be one of the biggest obstacles when people try to approach a language that is so different from European languages.

And though there shouldn't be any reason to be scared of them, overcoming the fear of contact with kanji is freaking hard. Even now, in my 4th year, a text that bristles with characters I don't know strikes a weird kind of fear into my body.
If you want to read about spoken Japanese, let me know in a comment below and I will try to make it happen.

     

Moving Villagers ♡ とびだせどうぶつの森

After putting this series to a rest right after starting it, I decided to finally get together the next part of that small sector where I answer unasked questions and share tips and tricks about one of my favorite games ever: Animal Crossing New Leaf.

In the last part I talked about how to start (you can check it out here) and will move on to a rather nerve-wrecking, crucial part, that might take a lot of time for ambitious players to achieve.

It's a point at which I was really, really happy to find so much help from other, more experienced players online, which I want to gather and share all together today.

We're talking about moving villagers and everything about this topic that comes to my mind.

So first of all, let me explain a term that you will find on a handful of animal crossing blogs: dreamies.

5 things to do for a little rebound ♡

The holiday season is not necessarily a time with lots of space for relaxation, especially if you have a big family and therefore many lunches and dinners and brunches (urgh, way too much food) to attend but because it's still the two weeks at the end of the year that you can spend hidden from university stress and working schedules (at least to some extent), we should try some slow movement to let our minds and bodies rest from all the work and stress and responsibilities.

I am a person who struggles to get out of the habitual jog and stress without feeling painfully fallow which then frustrates me. 

One reason more to share some tips with which I try to get out of it to finally get a break of some sort - which lead me to today's topic: 5 things to do for a little rebound.

How to start ♡ とびだせどうぶつの森

I thought it was about time to finally start with the promised postings about one of my favorite games for the past 2 years; Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

As some of you might remember I posted a super motivated introduction for that series here 

but so far, didn't recieve any questions which is why I hesitated to just start with the first thing that comes up in my mind.

But since I'm carrying some of these ideas in my head for a while now, I decided to just share the first couple of tips and tricks I have for you without being asked.

source ♡

Today I want to talk about the start of the game and your first couple of steps and how little things may already improve your first play experiences or even parts that will run like a golden thread through the rest of the game.

Actually I'm sure I won't reveal anything people who played this didn't already know but still think I should include a small spoiler warning for whoever hasn't played the game yet. Better safe than sorry!

study and organisation tips

It is always kind of hard to get into the 'back to school' feeling in spring - when there are no offers for supplies and pretty much no one cares about your university necissities.

The pattern of my first 12 years of education differs so much from what university is like, where I live. The school year - up until I graduated - started in August or September and ended in June/July.

However as soon as you change to university, things change likewise.

Now, I have summer terms and winter terms and it actually makes a lot more sense to me.

The terms itself however can feel like a whole school year felt to me a few years ago.

Getting back to school is a big topic in general. If you look it up you'll find thousands of hits, clicks, pins, tweets, tips, videos and whatnot. Everyone gets excited about their latest supply haul, new markers and planners and I'm no exception.

Though it means getting back into schedules and having a lot of work already peeking up in the distance, I like these times of the year.

It's really motivating and after a break of roughly a month, going back to a regular schedule for everyday, with appointments and deadlines {that guarantee to keep you busy} seems kind of desirable and I find myself looking forward to it a lot.

I always was the kid that enjoyed going to school anyway, but that's another topic.

Since the 'back to school' time differs a lot between university and school - unless you're from South Korea or Japan {the two countries I know, where the school year starts in spring} - I decided to post this here kind off-time - but in synchro with my personal schedule.

I will share general tips and rules I try to stick with, to make my study routine more efficient and fun. I can't reinvent the wheel, whatsoever so you probably heard of the things I'm going to talk about already.