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druckfehler
Triglot
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 Message 601 of 844
16 July 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged 
The Real CZ wrote:
I have found reading to be much more helpful than SRS when it comes to remembering words and grammar structures. Seeing the same sentences over and over does nothing for me except help me to memorize those sentences.

I've been wondering about that lately. SRS seems very effective but if I spent the same time reading I wonder if it wouldn't be just as beneficial or even more so...

What are you reading?
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The Real CZ
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 Message 602 of 844
16 July 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged 
SRS's help for me was very minimal. I would still forget a lot of words. I felt my studying was tied to the damn SRS instead of actually learning the language.

Black Mountain
Rambler Roses

Those are the two books I'm reading right now.
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druckfehler
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 Message 603 of 844
16 July 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged 
Those novels sound really interesting. Now I wish I was already at a level where I'd be able to read that kind of book...
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The Real CZ
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 Message 604 of 844
16 July 2012 at 10:52pm | IP Logged 
When I read my first novel in Korean, I was utterly confused, but I just kept writing down words to look up and as I kept reading, the clearer everything became.
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The Real CZ
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 Message 605 of 844
24 July 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged 
Lately I've been practicing rap songs to get me more comfortable speaking Korean. After that, I wrote my own Korean rap song.

Rap Song

I think making the songs is a more interesting way to work on output as opposed to writing simple journal entries.

Edit: I signed up to do French for the 6WC challenge. Korean will still be my focus, but I have so much free time that I thought I'd use some for French. I'd like to see how a Romance language is after studying Korean and Japanese for the past three years.

I'm thinking I should make pretty good progress since I know what works and what doesn't work for me now.

Edited by The Real CZ on 25 July 2012 at 6:17am

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kujichagulia
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 Message 606 of 844
26 July 2012 at 1:55pm | IP Logged 
The Real CZ wrote:

@Warp Which Namie albums have you listened to? She's my favorite soloist in Japan, so I have plenty of tracks to recommend. Uh, I don't like AKB48 at all. I tried. I honestly did.

@Ymer Japanese idols are just people picked off from the street without any training. I watched AKB48 live once, and aside from the fact that they didn't sing a single line live, the dancing was awful. I shit on Kpop idols all the time, but at least there are a few talented idols in every Korean idol group while Japanese idol groups are devoid of talent.

<<LOUD APPLAUSE>>
Finally... somebody other than me has the GUTS to call out AKB48 for what they are... crap! J-Pop is pretty bad, and these girls are the creme-de-la-crap.

By the way... any good Rip Slyme songs you recommend? I know a few of the guys were involved in the side project Teriyaki Boyz, one of the only two Japanese-language CDs I own.

Edited by kujichagulia on 26 July 2012 at 1:57pm

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The Real CZ
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 Message 607 of 844
26 July 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged 
kujichagulia wrote:
The Real CZ wrote:

@Warp Which Namie albums have you listened to? She's my favorite soloist in Japan, so I have plenty of tracks to recommend. Uh, I don't like AKB48 at all. I tried. I honestly did.

@Ymer Japanese idols are just people picked off from the street without any training. I watched AKB48 live once, and aside from the fact that they didn't sing a single line live, the dancing was awful. I shit on Kpop idols all the time, but at least there are a few talented idols in every Korean idol group while Japanese idol groups are devoid of talent.

<<LOUD APPLAUSE>>
Finally... somebody other than me has the GUTS to call out AKB48 for what they are... crap! J-Pop is pretty bad, and these girls are the creme-de-la-crap.

By the way... any good Rip Slyme songs you recommend? I know a few of the guys were involved in the side project Teriyaki Boyz, one of the only two Japanese-language CDs I own.


Haha, glad to see another person dislikes the idols in Japan. I used to think Korean idols were bad, but then I listened to Japanese idols lol. The only Jpop I like is Amuro Namie and BoA, and BoA is Korean haha. I mainly stick to Japanese rock and hiphop.

As for Rip Slyme, some of my favorites are: Super Shooter, Nettaiya (also check out the PV for this one lol), Tales, Dandelion, Blow, Galaxy, Sense of Wonder, Funkastic, etc.

Edited by The Real CZ on 26 July 2012 at 3:45pm

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The Real CZ
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 Message 608 of 844
29 July 2012 at 6:38am | IP Logged 
I ordered the newest version of Assmil French With Ease and Schaum's Outline of French grammar. They're not expected to get here until the third, so I'll have to find some free online sites to at least learn some basics and get used to French.

It is nice to actually be able to look at some French text and just guess what's being said just because I know English. It is going to be weird going to a totally different grammar system though. Korean and Japanese are only hard at the beginning, but make complete sense once you learn the basics. It doesn't seem that way for Romance languages lol.

I also checked out FSI French and gave up after five minutes. That shit is torture.


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