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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1105 of 1702 14 October 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
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As I posted in another Lang log I'm starting in on みんなの日本語. It's been a while since I have worked out of
a textbook and I think I need it. It gives you a sense if progress which I'm not feeling now (even if my old tutor could see progress from several months ago). And I'm getting really nervous about the N3 test coming up. Also my internet just died last night so I woke up early and called them and it worked for 5 minutes after talking to them and now it's dead again. Not good. I hope it's an outage in the area and fixes by tonight. (I'm posting this using my phone.) I briefly started みんなの日本語 this morning. I reread the entry on tatami mats. I had read it off the cuff with my tutor a month ago or so and so it wasn't too hard to so but I did use my iPhone dictionary some. I added some vocab words. I started the exercises on the following page and I'm not so confident if my answers but I will have to wait until after work to check the answers. Looking forward to making progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 1106 of 1702 14 October 2013 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
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If you're anything like me, no internet might be a good thing, especially now you've got an exciting new textbook to crack on with. I'm going to finish off studying the grammar points in 第１課 tonight now!
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1107 of 1702 15 October 2013 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah the internet doesn't help my textbook studying that all. I got a lot of anime in though ^_^. I'll have to do
better tomorrow. A friend of mine mentioned のだめカンタービレ and how she wanted to get a DVD copy to watch it again in better quality (she watched it streamed on some free website in china or something. ). Anyway I got my old HD torrent download and found some English subs (finally) for it. I was enjoying it immensely until the subs suddenly got out of synch with the show. I guess there was an advertisement break or something that threw the timing off. Anyway, I just turned them off and I pretty much didn't need them I found. They talk a lot slower than I remember them speaking the last time haha. I sure don't understand every word yet but it's pretty good since I know the plot already. I wanna watch the anime again too. I'm not sure if I have it with hard or soft subs. Gonna have to turn them off. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1108 of 1702 16 October 2013 at 1:01pm | IP Logged |
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Benny the polyglot - looks like he's taking
on Japanese finally. I stumbled onto some of his log and videos a few years back when I was messing around with Spanish and German (I think). They're fun. He posted a video of him talking to some poor Japanese guy on Skype after studying for a week. It's really impressive I think. But he's got a lot of experience so he knows what phrases to drill for ones first conversation I think. I'm curious if he'll blow by me in his 3 month intensive regime. As for my own Japanese tonight. I made an mp3 of the audio from the book 1 中級 of みんな. I did it twice because I'm making it with background music for exercising and I wasn't happy with the music volume. It took two and a half hours since I did it twice. I didn't actually work on the textbook yet. I did review some flashcards in Japanese (app). And I watched a lot of のだめカンタービレ without subs. This show has a lot of replay value. I love watching it even though I already know what's going to happen. Edited by kraemder on 16 October 2013 at 1:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 1109 of 1702 16 October 2013 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
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I had to turn that video off after the first couple of minutes. I'm not going to criticise someone for making beginner mistakes, because we all have to go through it and I still make tons of errors now, but I find it uncomfortable to listen to! But I would be interested to hear how far he manages to get in three months. There was so much bad advice packed into this article though, so I don't think I'll follow his mission too closely, I don't want to wind myself up about someone being wrong on the internet!
Nice work on のだめカンタービレ. It was one of the first dramas I ever watched and I fell in love with it, having been a music student myself once upon a time. It still has a special place for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1110 of 1702 17 October 2013 at 1:57am | IP Logged |
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Yeah I didn't watch more than a few minutes either. There's really not a need since I'm not a beginner. I
checked your link to his post about plain form. I kind of went through the same thing when I was new too. Uh always want to find short cuts. I suppose if you're trying to sprint be conversational as fast as possible it makes some sense.. But ますform is too important to just ignore. He'll come around. It's a little weird how he writes this post as an authority but he's just a noob to Japanese and really has no idea hehe. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6117 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 1111 of 1702 17 October 2013 at 4:32am | IP Logged |
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Japan is perfect for Benny, really. He'll go there, speak a few words, everyone will tell him he's jouzu jouzu jouzu, and then he'll declare victory -- move onto the next country. Edited by cathrynm on 17 October 2013 at 6:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1112 of 1702 17 October 2013 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
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Did he stop taking standarized tests to prove he accomplished something?
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