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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 89 of 256 20 December 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ah, OK. Well spending all my time on this forum encouraging others to make an effort sounds much more up my street :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 90 of 256 27 December 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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W/E 2012-12-23 20h15m
Nothing remarkable this week. Kanji, audio and book-learning. The audio is from the various Lower Intermediate seasons from JPOD101: it's all still a bit difficult at the moment. I'm hoping things become easier with repetition. The book-work is just going through bits of Minna no Nihongo I before starting on II next year. Even though I now realise I don't need to wade through 100 films, I still plan to watch a few repeatedly (with J or E subtitles) next year and see if that helps with my listening comprehension. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 91 of 256 31 December 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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W/E 2012-12-30 17h
Holiday season so no commuting, hence not that much audio. I've kept up with Kanji and Anki, but I've let memrise slide a bit. I worked through the FSI Japanese FAST course (the short one). Some useful vocabulary in there but I was slightly put off by the use of roumaji. I guess given their target audience (those about to be transferred to Japane within 6 weeks) kana/kanji was never going to be the medium of instruction! I also worked through a few pages of the Japanese Picture Dictionary. It's aimed at kids but it's useful for learning a bunch of related vocabulary as a group (Kitchen, Animals, The Zoo ... that sort of thing). TAC starts tomorrow so hopefully I'll pick up the pace a little then! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 92 of 256 07 January 2013 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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W/E 2013-01-06 21h
Kanji and Anki are going well but I've still not kick started memrise N4. I've now listened to JPOD101's Upper Intermediate Season 1 and started on Season 2. In readiness for resuming tutorials, I've started on Chapter 26 of Minna No Nihongo II. I picked up a few Japanese books over Christmas and I've started to work through "A Japanese Reader" by Miller. I've gone through the initial hiragana and katakana familiarisation lessons and now I've reached the kanji portion. I was also given the Berlitz "Japanese in 30 Days" course. The start is (as expected) fairly basic and I've completed 18 of the 30 chapters in just about two hours of study spread throughout the week. Although it is basic, it's serving as a useful refresher, has useful additional vocabulary and has some helpful explanations. So I think I'll keep going with it (especially as I think I'll be done with it within another week). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Helemano Newbie Japan Joined 4332 days ago 31 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 93 of 256 07 January 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
dampingwire, you owe me a new computer. I spit my tea out all over the keyboard when I saw this line. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 94 of 256 10 January 2013 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is it normal for earphones not to last that long? I'm on about my 4th set since I started
to use an MP3 player daily for Japanese. That's probably 6-8 months or so. Anyway, I may as well track earphones as well as weekly progress. So today I bought a set of "Sound MiTEC Candy Earphones". £4 from Tesco. I'm getting a bit fed up with the failure rate so I've kept the receipt and these will definitely be going back if they fail! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 95 of 256 11 January 2013 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
There's "Japanese for Everyone," "Japanese for Busy People," and now ..... "Japanese for Undertakers." At first I thought it might be "Japanese for Serial Killers," but no one would buy that book, would they? The police would probably stake out the bookstore and arrest anyone who bought it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Helemano Newbie Japan Joined 4332 days ago 31 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 96 of 256 11 January 2013 at 7:23am | IP Logged | |||||
I probably go through a pair of earphones every year. I take my little iPod nano in my pocket every day, and my earphones are stuffed in there as well, so they get a lot of wear and tear. I find that they last longer when I spend a little more for the reputable brands like Sony, Creative and Panasonic. Bose and Audiotechnica might be better than that, but I don't have that much money to burn. On a side note, I love Tesco! I always go there when I visit the UK. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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