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| nandemonai Diglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4165 days ago 101 posts - 116 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 33 of 33 04 December 2014 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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I can't believe I haven't posted an update since August!
I have been progressing really well in Japanese. Reading light novels isn't that much of a struggle anymore, but it still takes time. Ended up 5th in the last Tadoku, although I could've done better if I read more consistently. The trip to Japan really helped improve my Japanese. It's like there was a switch flipped in my brain. I took a bunch of books with me home, including some textbooks for Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. I'm now averaging one light novel a month. I do plan on going back to Japan in the next few years. Hoping to find an internship in Tokyo next school year. I missed the deadline for the JLPT this December due a stupid mistake of not checking the individual deadlines for every test site. I will take it in July instead, just not sure on where yet. I also started Mandarin classes last September. At first I wasn't so happy about them as the teacher spent too much time on the characters (1h out of 3h every week) while that could be easily done as homework. I switched to the other class with a different teacher and I'm much more satisfied now. She puts more emphasis on pronunciation and tones. That's pretty much what I needed. I'm trying to go study in China for a semester as well, as there's a scholarship available for it and it'd really motivate me to learn more Mandarin. I also found a youtube channel that's worth sharing for Mandarin/Japanese learners. He speaks in a mix of Mandarin, Japanese, and English in his videos explaining things about Japanese/Malaysian culture and language. I pretty much dropped the idea of Lithuanian. I went to visit Vilnius. It was a fantastic city/language. But I just don't think I have the motivation to learn this to a useful level looking back to how much time I've put into it. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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