This blog is sad now, because it has nooooo attention.
But this blog is happy: beyondthepuddle.blogspot.com
or at least happier.
I'm happy because I'm in Japan. Going to try to learn a lot while working at the same time.
Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts
Monday, June 28, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
JLPT Study so far
Well, I'm trying to get caught up on kanji, mostly. That and vocab is where I hurt. I retain grammar the best, although it's been a while since I wasn't straight up reviewing, so we'll see how I fare. I think I can do it.
Also, the choice to go with N3 is the right one. I did example test questions for N5 (which I never doubted was too easy) and N4 (which I figured would be doable) and they were both a piece of cake, pretty much. I think the only times I messed up were times where I just hadn't paid enough attention.
One thing I need to be careful of is to not get too sucked into Anki. Flashcards are great, but in the end, flashcards are going to make you good at flashcards, and not Japanese. (Of course, people say that about the JLPT, too, that studying for the test only really makes you good at taking the test, or that it only tests your ability to study for a test...)
I have a LOT of textbooks. They all have example sentences and some of them have drills. Cross studying (out of order, heavens!) goes totally against my "chonology tic," but in this case the most important is really to just cover material. I definitely err on the overly systematic approach, so it's time to just study whatever is relevant.
Also, it's time to study. This blog has been giving me some grief lately. Some of the posts are super valuable (to me, at least) but some of them are just drama or boring. I might clean it up. I don't really want to start a new one just to "get serious." I think I can do that here :)
Also, the choice to go with N3 is the right one. I did example test questions for N5 (which I never doubted was too easy) and N4 (which I figured would be doable) and they were both a piece of cake, pretty much. I think the only times I messed up were times where I just hadn't paid enough attention.
One thing I need to be careful of is to not get too sucked into Anki. Flashcards are great, but in the end, flashcards are going to make you good at flashcards, and not Japanese. (Of course, people say that about the JLPT, too, that studying for the test only really makes you good at taking the test, or that it only tests your ability to study for a test...)
I have a LOT of textbooks. They all have example sentences and some of them have drills. Cross studying (out of order, heavens!) goes totally against my "chonology tic," but in this case the most important is really to just cover material. I definitely err on the overly systematic approach, so it's time to just study whatever is relevant.
Also, it's time to study. This blog has been giving me some grief lately. Some of the posts are super valuable (to me, at least) but some of them are just drama or boring. I might clean it up. I don't really want to start a new one just to "get serious." I think I can do that here :)
Saturday, April 10, 2010
世間体
This word means "appearances."
From the dictionary on my Macbook:
for the sake of appearances 世間体のために
that would look bad/be bad for my reputation それでは世間体が悪い
But these kanji readings seem kind of crazy to me. せけんてい
せmakes sense since it's the same as 世界
but けん is pretty different from かん like 間 is more commonly pronounced
and てい is different from たい like 体 is usually pronounced.
It's almost like the vowels for the whole word shifted to match the first one.
Anyways, it's hard for me to remember, but then I realized that if you get a little philosophical it's not so hard, based on the meanings of the kanji.
Think of 世 as world, 間 as a length of time, and 体 as body/phyisical.
So appearances are only valid in this life, the brief time your physical form (appearance) is on this planet.
あの世ではどうなるかな。
#makingshitup
Anyways, I hope that taking the time to write this post will help me remember the word.
I've been trying to think of what I can do to make this a little more functional for other people, since it's called How to not suck at Japanese, but really, as I think I have said, the key is just to take the time. Me writing whatever I write in here is meant to show that. Of course, I don't update all that often, but I'm working on it :X I HAVE been studying kanji and vocab in Anki. Semi holding off on grammar until I get the N3 books I ordered (textbook junkiiiiiie).
From the dictionary on my Macbook:
for the sake of appearances 世間体のために
that would look bad/be bad for my reputation それでは世間体が悪い
But these kanji readings seem kind of crazy to me. せけんてい
せmakes sense since it's the same as 世界
but けん is pretty different from かん like 間 is more commonly pronounced
and てい is different from たい like 体 is usually pronounced.
It's almost like the vowels for the whole word shifted to match the first one.
Anyways, it's hard for me to remember, but then I realized that if you get a little philosophical it's not so hard, based on the meanings of the kanji.
Think of 世 as world, 間 as a length of time, and 体 as body/phyisical.
So appearances are only valid in this life, the brief time your physical form (appearance) is on this planet.
あの世ではどうなるかな。
#makingshitup
Anyways, I hope that taking the time to write this post will help me remember the word.
I've been trying to think of what I can do to make this a little more functional for other people, since it's called How to not suck at Japanese, but really, as I think I have said, the key is just to take the time. Me writing whatever I write in here is meant to show that. Of course, I don't update all that often, but I'm working on it :X I HAVE been studying kanji and vocab in Anki. Semi holding off on grammar until I get the N3 books I ordered (textbook junkiiiiiie).
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Translation: Working on 10/24/2009
This morning I was going to do laundry, but since some other early(ish) riser stole the machine as I was on my way to breakfast, I'm going to work on translating the はっぴいえんど wikipedia page.
I haven't decided if I want to post it section by section or just do the whole thing. It might depend on how far I can get today. Actually, wikipedia articles make for perfect weeknight practice material, since you can just do a section a night instead of going on forever.
That said it's not like that song was very long, but it took quite a while to do.
THAT said, it's a wikipedia article, not poetry.
We'll see. I'm gonna just get started.
EDIT: Wow, wait -- I found something else I need to translate first :) Pretty short, though, so it'll be up soon.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Someone has my domain
I was finally going to register sucknot-japanese.com and someone has it already.
This makes me sad.
If you know who it is, tell them to contact me : / I really want it ;_;
This makes me sad.
If you know who it is, tell them to contact me : / I really want it ;_;
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Major update AND Hello again
The first thing you will notice is that I have hooked up my Japanese Twitter account to this blog. Makes much more sense. When I started this blog, I didn't HAVE a Japanese Twitter account. Yay, progress.
The second thing you will hopefully start to notice in the future is me actually using this as a hub for my study activities. For starters, let me just expound a bit on recent happenings:
*I started a Japanese cooking club with a couple friends and one of the members is a pretty hardcore Japanophile, which makes me happy. He speaks conversationally quite well, it seems, and all from some close-watching/listening of J-dramas. Granted he is currently not working or in school, living at home, but I think we can all learn a bit from his dedication.
*NEW PEOPLE opened in San Francisco and I hang out there a lot. This will become apparently if I keep up with this blog like I intend to, because I go to see a lot of Japanese movies there, which is listening exposure, even if you do have the subtitle crutch.
*Bumped my tutor down from an hour to a half hour a week. Basically, I just want someone to chat with and whom I can bounce questions off of. I appreciated her efforts in personalizing a class for me, but I have way to many aspirations to be locked into a set schedule of quizzes and things.
Main study resources, currently:
*文法が弱いあなたへ is a great grammar review book. I have probably mentioned it here before, but since I have only just finally gotten into a good study habit, I'm still using it. To recap: it's perfect for an intermediate student (the book is all in Japanese) who wants to review some points.
*くもんの小学校ドリル, where have you been all my life? The 国語 kanji workbooks are KILLER. I wish I had had these in high school. TO ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TEACHING YOURSELVES JAPANESE: please go out and buy these workbooks. Oh. My. They are meant for Japanese elementary school kids, so not only are you learning the kanji in the order that Japanese kids learn them, but you are learning them along with the readings and vocabulary that Japanese society deems necessary for kanji n00bs. I went back to 一年生 for some review, but I am already learning stuff I never did before.
*Have been doing Pimsleur Japanese level 3 audio lessons, which are a decent mix of making me think a little and way too easy. I like that they are throwing in some formal language, but the scenarios are feeling a bit simple for the level of politeness they are throwing at you. That said, anything that gets me saying Japanese words out loud is a plus. I am shy and I think this sort of listen and repeat stuff is what I need to get my tongue all 日本語'd up and ready for action.
*にほんご敬語トレーニング has been my keigo book of choice, although I haven't delved too far in yet. Rumor has it there is some sort of ultimate keigo book out there that I must own. I heard it might be in the mail to me. We shall see :)
*The latest addition to my growing stack of extremely useful and practical (no joke) Japanese language books is 日本人の知らない日本語, which has been a huge best seller in Japan. No wonder it was so easy to find at Kinokuniya this afternoon! It's done in "comic-essay" form, and teaches, as the title states, "Japanese that Japanese people don't know." Seems very entertaining, and since it is entirely in Japanese, for Japanese people, about things that even they may not know or do correctly, I am really excited to prioritize this in my study sessions.
*Kotoba! for iPhone is a pretty decent Japanese dictionary. I figured something was better than nothing and this was free (if I remember correctly?) More often than not, the word I have been searching for has been in there and they have translations to multiple languages and even kanji details.
*iEijiro (iPhone) is a dictionary for more advanced usage and...whatnot. Haven't had much luck with this, honestly. It seems extremely useful, but for more limited purposes, maybe?
*Check out the latest Otaku USA for an article I did about iPhone kanji apps :)
*Japanese Flip is a great flashcard program (iPhone) for JLPT vocab.
*Mnemosyne is back in style with me and I'm actually in talks with someone to get an iPhone port going, or at least a comparable program. This is very exciting, especially if we can make it so you can sync your stacks and grade levels. Then I can take all the vocab I'm working on with me in my pocket, where it is far more accessible than on my laptop.
*KeyholeTV is a MAJOR discovery. Not much more to say besides that it is streaming Japanese TV and radio. We should all just let our jaws hang open in awe that this exists.
Main study tactics at the moment:
*Aiming for an audio lesson a day, but not quite making it.
*Doing three lessons of くもん drill at a time, which right now is around per day, but not sure how that will scale, especially since I want to try to absorb all this really good vocab.
*Thinking of how to work in more keigo practice. Might wait until after the audio lessons are exhausted.
*Very interested in looping in more work-related Japanese stuff. Might begin the pain in the neck yet very instructive task of going through all my Japanese language mail from the week and pulling vocab for Mnemosyne cards as well as just instilling proper everything from my Japanese co-workers.
*Also really need to look over the Japanese versions of the site, help materials etc. This is something I mean to do long ago, but I just need to set aside time.
*I'm also interested in doing a translation project now and then. I'm not sure what I would like to translate, but I will probably start with news articles about work, since that could prove to be doubly useful.
Luckily, since Japanese has been placed as one of my three whole areas of priorities in life (right up there with work and health) it has been really easy to find more time to do it lately, which has been making me very happy.
But now look how long I spent updating this blog when I could've been actually studying. We'll see, we'll see ;) Anyways, for now, hopefully someone will find all those recommendations relevant. I will try to update with some less obvious ideas (the ones that aren't "surround yourself with study opportunities" and "take them") as they come up and maybe log some progress/questions and answers from my tutor/etc. Or I could get too busy to update for another few months.
There's a lot of passion here, but I'm not sure it's for the blog. I'm pretty sure it's for the doing and the studying. This is a problem I have had with all my blogs lately, even the ones I bought domains for, so...
yeah. We'll see.
The second thing you will hopefully start to notice in the future is me actually using this as a hub for my study activities. For starters, let me just expound a bit on recent happenings:
*I started a Japanese cooking club with a couple friends and one of the members is a pretty hardcore Japanophile, which makes me happy. He speaks conversationally quite well, it seems, and all from some close-watching/listening of J-dramas. Granted he is currently not working or in school, living at home, but I think we can all learn a bit from his dedication.
*NEW PEOPLE opened in San Francisco and I hang out there a lot. This will become apparently if I keep up with this blog like I intend to, because I go to see a lot of Japanese movies there, which is listening exposure, even if you do have the subtitle crutch.
*Bumped my tutor down from an hour to a half hour a week. Basically, I just want someone to chat with and whom I can bounce questions off of. I appreciated her efforts in personalizing a class for me, but I have way to many aspirations to be locked into a set schedule of quizzes and things.
Main study resources, currently:
*文法が弱いあなたへ is a great grammar review book. I have probably mentioned it here before, but since I have only just finally gotten into a good study habit, I'm still using it. To recap: it's perfect for an intermediate student (the book is all in Japanese) who wants to review some points.
*くもんの小学校ドリル, where have you been all my life? The 国語 kanji workbooks are KILLER. I wish I had had these in high school. TO ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TEACHING YOURSELVES JAPANESE: please go out and buy these workbooks. Oh. My. They are meant for Japanese elementary school kids, so not only are you learning the kanji in the order that Japanese kids learn them, but you are learning them along with the readings and vocabulary that Japanese society deems necessary for kanji n00bs. I went back to 一年生 for some review, but I am already learning stuff I never did before.
*Have been doing Pimsleur Japanese level 3 audio lessons, which are a decent mix of making me think a little and way too easy. I like that they are throwing in some formal language, but the scenarios are feeling a bit simple for the level of politeness they are throwing at you. That said, anything that gets me saying Japanese words out loud is a plus. I am shy and I think this sort of listen and repeat stuff is what I need to get my tongue all 日本語'd up and ready for action.
*にほんご敬語トレーニング has been my keigo book of choice, although I haven't delved too far in yet. Rumor has it there is some sort of ultimate keigo book out there that I must own. I heard it might be in the mail to me. We shall see :)
*The latest addition to my growing stack of extremely useful and practical (no joke) Japanese language books is 日本人の知らない日本語, which has been a huge best seller in Japan. No wonder it was so easy to find at Kinokuniya this afternoon! It's done in "comic-essay" form, and teaches, as the title states, "Japanese that Japanese people don't know." Seems very entertaining, and since it is entirely in Japanese, for Japanese people, about things that even they may not know or do correctly, I am really excited to prioritize this in my study sessions.
*Kotoba! for iPhone is a pretty decent Japanese dictionary. I figured something was better than nothing and this was free (if I remember correctly?) More often than not, the word I have been searching for has been in there and they have translations to multiple languages and even kanji details.
*iEijiro (iPhone) is a dictionary for more advanced usage and...whatnot. Haven't had much luck with this, honestly. It seems extremely useful, but for more limited purposes, maybe?
*Check out the latest Otaku USA for an article I did about iPhone kanji apps :)
*Japanese Flip is a great flashcard program (iPhone) for JLPT vocab.
*Mnemosyne is back in style with me and I'm actually in talks with someone to get an iPhone port going, or at least a comparable program. This is very exciting, especially if we can make it so you can sync your stacks and grade levels. Then I can take all the vocab I'm working on with me in my pocket, where it is far more accessible than on my laptop.
*KeyholeTV is a MAJOR discovery. Not much more to say besides that it is streaming Japanese TV and radio. We should all just let our jaws hang open in awe that this exists.
Main study tactics at the moment:
*Aiming for an audio lesson a day, but not quite making it.
*Doing three lessons of くもん drill at a time, which right now is around per day, but not sure how that will scale, especially since I want to try to absorb all this really good vocab.
*Thinking of how to work in more keigo practice. Might wait until after the audio lessons are exhausted.
*Very interested in looping in more work-related Japanese stuff. Might begin the pain in the neck yet very instructive task of going through all my Japanese language mail from the week and pulling vocab for Mnemosyne cards as well as just instilling proper everything from my Japanese co-workers.
*Also really need to look over the Japanese versions of the site, help materials etc. This is something I mean to do long ago, but I just need to set aside time.
*I'm also interested in doing a translation project now and then. I'm not sure what I would like to translate, but I will probably start with news articles about work, since that could prove to be doubly useful.
Luckily, since Japanese has been placed as one of my three whole areas of priorities in life (right up there with work and health) it has been really easy to find more time to do it lately, which has been making me very happy.
But now look how long I spent updating this blog when I could've been actually studying. We'll see, we'll see ;) Anyways, for now, hopefully someone will find all those recommendations relevant. I will try to update with some less obvious ideas (the ones that aren't "surround yourself with study opportunities" and "take them") as they come up and maybe log some progress/questions and answers from my tutor/etc. Or I could get too busy to update for another few months.
There's a lot of passion here, but I'm not sure it's for the blog. I'm pretty sure it's for the doing and the studying. This is a problem I have had with all my blogs lately, even the ones I bought domains for, so...
yeah. We'll see.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Game no Vocab
Oh, hey, I can link you to my vocab blog now: ゲームの単語.
It's not the greatest thing in the world, but I'm trying to tag effectively so you can make "lesson plans" or something, and you can search the blog in English or Japanese for the word you need. That makes it at least half-way decent.
It's not the greatest thing in the world, but I'm trying to tag effectively so you can make "lesson plans" or something, and you can search the blog in English or Japanese for the word you need. That makes it at least half-way decent.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A month exactly
You can tell I've been busy, but I have an announcement! Finally.
Since I don't know of any good web-based vocab organizers, I'm going to start a vocab blog, yes with tags. About videogames.
That is all. I don't have a ton of time at the moment. But uh, look forward to that...maybe.
Since I don't know of any good web-based vocab organizers, I'm going to start a vocab blog, yes with tags. About videogames.
That is all. I don't have a ton of time at the moment. But uh, look forward to that...maybe.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
おひさしぶり
そんなに忙しい？ブログを捨てたくないけど、仕事が多い。勉強のため時間がなちゃった。どうして？多分ＥＡへ行くときに教科書とかＤＳの教育ソフトとかもってくれば、いい。
そこの新しいバイトはすてきで、オフィスで働いているのが好きだ。
Arrrgh I don't even have time to write why I don't have time to write because I have to go catch BART before it shuts down. Yipe yipe yipe. Suffice it to say I haven't given up. I think, as I mentioned, that bringing study materials to EA would be a good thing, but then again you look all pretentious if you're studying kanji at lunch, and it might be easier to make new friends if I actually tried.
*shrug*
そこの新しいバイトはすてきで、オフィスで働いているのが好きだ。
Arrrgh I don't even have time to write why I don't have time to write because I have to go catch BART before it shuts down. Yipe yipe yipe. Suffice it to say I haven't given up. I think, as I mentioned, that bringing study materials to EA would be a good thing, but then again you look all pretentious if you're studying kanji at lunch, and it might be easier to make new friends if I actually tried.
*shrug*
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
More mail
So I think at some point I intend to put some actual effort into a post about my new study tools, obviously, but this will serve well enough to announce that the DS software has also arrived. I've been gathering initial impressions, but probably won't have time to make the actual post until the weekend. Or never. We'll see haha
I'm pretty happy so far, though, and I had some time this evening to study.
Oleya was over last night and let me oogle her (White Rabbit) flash cards. Let me tell you, they are some awesome. The best part is the six usages listed. You can learn some super useful vocab just by making sure you recognize your kanji. It just feels really good to have a finite amount of information there. Studying out of a kanji dictionary (even a super user friendly one like mine) is stressful and overwhelming since some kanji have meanings that go on for over a page!! Here you can get a really good pertinent chunk of meaning, things you will want to use--like 万引き（まんびき shoplifting） or 九州 （きゅうしゅう the island of Japan）Therefore, huzzah.
I'm pretty happy so far, though, and I had some time this evening to study.
Oleya was over last night and let me oogle her (White Rabbit) flash cards. Let me tell you, they are some awesome. The best part is the six usages listed. You can learn some super useful vocab just by making sure you recognize your kanji. It just feels really good to have a finite amount of information there. Studying out of a kanji dictionary (even a super user friendly one like mine) is stressful and overwhelming since some kanji have meanings that go on for over a page!! Here you can get a really good pertinent chunk of meaning, things you will want to use--like 万引き（まんびき shoplifting） or 九州 （きゅうしゅう the island of Japan）Therefore, huzzah.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
24 is not enough
I should be sleeping, but instead I'm going to pop in here to say that I'm ridiculously busy. Partially, though, because I'm interviewing for Amity on Saturday. Maybe I'll get to go to Japan! My clothes are already being dry cleaned, so...now I just need to come up with a half hour lesson plan and be creative, etc. I think I can, I think I can...
In the meantime, I know you've seen this before if you read my other blogs, but check out ケロログ for voice blogs by Japanese people. I've half a mind to start one myself (in all sorts of bilingual glory...ooooorrrrr something haha) but it'll have to wait.
明日多分日本語を話すチャンスがあるんだ。日本から来たルームメートと彼のお父さんといっしょうに朝ごはんを食べるはずだ。眠そうな顔を消さなくちゃいけないよ。もう午前１時４０だけど、もう少し仕事したほうがいいかな。。。
In the meantime, I know you've seen this before if you read my other blogs, but check out ケロログ for voice blogs by Japanese people. I've half a mind to start one myself (in all sorts of bilingual glory...ooooorrrrr something haha) but it'll have to wait.
明日多分日本語を話すチャンスがあるんだ。日本から来たルームメートと彼のお父さんといっしょうに朝ごはんを食べるはずだ。眠そうな顔を消さなくちゃいけないよ。もう午前１時４０だけど、もう少し仕事したほうがいいかな。。。
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Today I met a cool girl
in J-town. Her name is Akiko, and we ate a mixed berry tart while discussing life etc. This week we did English, but next time I told her I will be brave and speak some Japanese, too. I'm feeling pretty energized after meeting her. Also, her English is awesome. She's been here for five years.
Anyways, I guess I don't have much to add. Just noting that I now have a serious conversation partner. If only I can just find something to talk about!
No other study news...
: /
and in fact you'll notice I broke every rule. I didn't mean to take the weekend off and I'm too tired to put any useful Japanese in here. If I just go to bed now so I can get up and be productive tomorrow that will be enough!
Anyways, I guess I don't have much to add. Just noting that I now have a serious conversation partner. If only I can just find something to talk about!
No other study news...
: /
and in fact you'll notice I broke every rule. I didn't mean to take the weekend off and I'm too tired to put any useful Japanese in here. If I just go to bed now so I can get up and be productive tomorrow that will be enough!
Friday, April 25, 2008
Logistics
ロジスティクス* -- interestingly, the original Japanese word, 兵站学 (へいたんがく), is the kanji for "army," "halt," and "learning." The middle one isn't general use. Maybe that is why they use English now? I sort of wonder how the change comes about.
logistics: the aspect of military science dealing with the procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military matériel, facilities, and personnel; the handling of the details of an operation
From those kanji, I wonder if they use it for the second meaning or not. Or maybe the English word is used exclusively for the second meaning? Now I'm sort of curious...
Ah well. The point is...this is going to be one of those posts that falls under the logistics category. I will point out features of the blog! Hurrah!
Not like it's so different from other blogs.
"Study Buddies" are websites you should go to. "Break it down" is going to be my attempt at tagging this thing. Tagging is not my strength. I'm going to try not to add too many more categories besides what is there.
logistics - Stuff like this.
grammar - Concerned with...grammar. Like sentence patterns and things.
vocab - Probably a list of words.
shopping - Stores to buy things from, things I've bought, books, etc.
Possible future tags include: audio, video, translation, ...Japanese?
Who knows? The...bandwidth...is the limit!
*Note the cheap cop-out involved in translating the titles of entries. This is a devious loop-hole for rule one. Of course, now that we recognize it as such we'll have to make sure it isn't abused.
logistics: the aspect of military science dealing with the procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military matériel, facilities, and personnel; the handling of the details of an operation
From those kanji, I wonder if they use it for the second meaning or not. Or maybe the English word is used exclusively for the second meaning? Now I'm sort of curious...
Ah well. The point is...this is going to be one of those posts that falls under the logistics category. I will point out features of the blog! Hurrah!
Not like it's so different from other blogs.
"Study Buddies" are websites you should go to. "Break it down" is going to be my attempt at tagging this thing. Tagging is not my strength. I'm going to try not to add too many more categories besides what is there.
logistics - Stuff like this.
grammar - Concerned with...grammar. Like sentence patterns and things.
vocab - Probably a list of words.
shopping - Stores to buy things from, things I've bought, books, etc.
Possible future tags include: audio, video, translation, ...Japanese?
Who knows? The...bandwidth...is the limit!
*Note the cheap cop-out involved in translating the titles of entries. This is a devious loop-hole for rule one. Of course, now that we recognize it as such we'll have to make sure it isn't abused.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Rules are meant to be broken ;D
Ok, it's still Tuesday right now. No matter what time I finish writing. It's still Tuesday riiiiiiight...now!
実は今日あまり勉強しなかったけど、友達とアニメを見たから、日本語をちょっと聞いた。
Well, blah, I was going to work on a vocabulary list, because I'd like to learn grammatical terms in Japanese. I know some already like 名詞 and 動詞, but I need to learn more. Subject, object, adverb... That can be my project for next time. And I'd like to take a look at Famitsu soon, as well. Hmm. And play more Mother 2.
I thought I had learned a new word from Descendents of Darkness today, but I couldn't find it in the dictionary. That doesn't necessarily mean anything except that I can't really find the kanji...
実は今日あまり勉強しなかったけど、友達とアニメを見たから、日本語をちょっと聞いた。
Well, blah, I was going to work on a vocabulary list, because I'd like to learn grammatical terms in Japanese. I know some already like 名詞 and 動詞, but I need to learn more. Subject, object, adverb... That can be my project for next time. And I'd like to take a look at Famitsu soon, as well. Hmm. And play more Mother 2.
I thought I had learned a new word from Descendents of Darkness today, but I couldn't find it in the dictionary. That doesn't necessarily mean anything except that I can't really find the kanji...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
I suck at Japanese!
This is the first step to not sucking at Japanese. Admit it, you suck! I suck! We try and try, but we are un-near to fluency. We are far. Knowing you don't know is much better than assuming you do. You can say まだまだ行きます and keep on plugging away.
Do you like videogames and anime and manga and all that crazy J-stuff even though it doesn't seem to help you learn anything? Me, too. Are you embarrassed because you started learning Japanese in high school after you saw a subbed episode of Slayers and though it was the greatest sounding language ever? Me, too. You can be a geek (or even *shudder* an OTAKU) and still be serious student of Japanese. Let's prove it!
I'm writing this post as a corny introduction to HOW TO NOT SUCK AT JAPANESE, which is my new study blog. I will post Japanese things here not ALWAYS related to studying, but I will try to somehow create studying out of them, if they are unrelated. I kinda hate posts like these because usually blogs that have them stop after like three entries, you know? If that happens, I promise I will just get rid of the blog and not leave it up here taunting people who thought it might have potential, and then cry when they see it hasn't been updated since 2004.
I think I will make some rules, because introductory posts deserve at least one, maybe:
Every post will have Japanese characters in it, and they will not simply say こんにちはor すごい. They will say things that maybe I haven't heard before, or maybe I need to review, or maybe I just learned. Maybe sometimes I will inflict whole paragraphs of horrible Japanese on you, or maybe I will translate game manuals...WHO KNOWS?
The other rule is that I will update at least every other day, and this I am SO not joking about. I would say everyday, but there needs to be an extenuating circumstances rule.
Also, I am late, so I need to leave. TO BE FREAKING CONTINUED!
Do you like videogames and anime and manga and all that crazy J-stuff even though it doesn't seem to help you learn anything? Me, too. Are you embarrassed because you started learning Japanese in high school after you saw a subbed episode of Slayers and though it was the greatest sounding language ever? Me, too. You can be a geek (or even *shudder* an OTAKU) and still be serious student of Japanese. Let's prove it!
I'm writing this post as a corny introduction to HOW TO NOT SUCK AT JAPANESE, which is my new study blog. I will post Japanese things here not ALWAYS related to studying, but I will try to somehow create studying out of them, if they are unrelated. I kinda hate posts like these because usually blogs that have them stop after like three entries, you know? If that happens, I promise I will just get rid of the blog and not leave it up here taunting people who thought it might have potential, and then cry when they see it hasn't been updated since 2004.
I think I will make some rules, because introductory posts deserve at least one, maybe:
Every post will have Japanese characters in it, and they will not simply say こんにちはor すごい. They will say things that maybe I haven't heard before, or maybe I need to review, or maybe I just learned. Maybe sometimes I will inflict whole paragraphs of horrible Japanese on you, or maybe I will translate game manuals...WHO KNOWS?
The other rule is that I will update at least every other day, and this I am SO not joking about. I would say everyday, but there needs to be an extenuating circumstances rule.
Also, I am late, so I need to leave. TO BE FREAKING CONTINUED!
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