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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4620 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 305 of 314 26 July 2015 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Still here!
I happened to check HTLAL the day after it went down so I looked for everyone and found the .org. With all this happening, I'm more than ever inclined to start my website and follow the .org but for now, I'll just stick with the real HTLAL. I still don't have internet at home nor a phone with 3g so I can't actually post much (only at cafés) but I'll do more as soon as I have proper internet (soon I hope...). In any case, I'm still surrounded by Japanese, reading japanese everyday (although not books but more articles and magazines), listening to japanese (music, colleagues talking and.. well.. in the street), etc. I've also started again studying Mandarin! Since last week, everyday, I go to a Kombini to get wifi and sit at a table listening to a 15min podcast from NHK for Chinese (まいにち中国語）and then writing the dialogue down. Starting tomorrow, I'll do that with Korean as well although my level is higher than the lessons, but the level above ("level up" as they call it) is far above my level so maybe I'll switch to this one later. At least like this I'll know better the basics and get a bit of vocab as well. Anyway, more on that in a few weeks I guess, wherever that'll be, I'll be sure to find a way to tell you guys! (if it's not here, but I guess it'll be anyway :p) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rem Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3745 days ago 66 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French | Message 306 of 314 26 July 2015 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm still around and still studying my languages. I'm following both HTLAL and the .org
site at the moment. I've been thinking about setting up a log over on the .org forum, but mostly I'm just watching (the same as many others I guess) and waiting to see what happens. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4785 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 307 of 314 28 July 2015 at 12:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey guys!
Thank you all so much for getting back and letting me know you're still alive and kickin'! :P No worries over the lack of posts, here or on your logs, it's just good to know we're still all more or less working on our languages. Josquin, I hear ya, it's fine, get back to Japanese when you have the time and motivation to do so. I'm not sure what to do myself regarding the situation of the real HTLAL vs. .org (how did that even happen, anyway?!) But I guess it's a good time as any to set up an emergency log in case HTLAL goes up in flames again. Good to hear from some of you how's it all been. If you do choose to set up a log on the .org website, Just post me a link here so I know where to find you :) At least until I can actually sit down at the computer long enough to add in all the names and links over at .org. Oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4590 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 308 of 314 03 August 2015 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I didn't do much between February and June for various reasons. Then in July I decided to find a way to add some regular Japanese learning in my schedule. At the moment I'm trying to study around 30 minutes everyday, I usually watch two anime episodes (one per day) and do one “Let's learn Japanese” lesson on the third day. It's not a lot, but it's all the time I can allot to Japanese in this period since other languages have the priority (French, German). Also, I'm going to transfer to my new apartment in a couple of months so I'm quite busy with renovations and moving all my stuff there. I haven't signed up to the new forum yet. I'm familiar with phpBB though and it’s a much better script than the one we have here so I may give it a go later this week. it would be a good occasion to do a fresh start since I have always been a bit lazy when it comes to update my log.
I wasn't familiar with this site so thanks for posting it, my level is too low to speak/write but I hope it will be useful to me in the future! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4785 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 309 of 314 13 August 2015 at 10:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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@misskj: Thanks for posting that suggestion for atSkype. I'm sure it will come in really
handy. @suzukaze: I have not set up a thread over at the other forum as I figured we're doing fine over here, but if the site crashes again during the next few months, at least everyone one will know where to go to, and I'll probably set up a thread there. So you're fine. I really owe everyone a big apology. I'm sorry I haven't been much of a team leader this year. A lot of things happened that I did not anticipate, especially with exam dates and job changes. If anyone has any concerns or thoughts about anything here on the thread, or what you'd like me to do, let me know. I haven't suggested any challenge this month as I feel a lot of you, like me, have things that have been keeping you busy. But if you want to get back to doing so, let me know, and I'll figure out something. As for my summary, I'm finally starting to get back to working a little bit more consistently on Japanese, and mainly reading a lot, and working actively on production. I got to know a very sweet lady who I now communicate with over email, and have been trying to post more on Lang-8. That said, I have yet to update my log. And I still haven't attempted to speak to anyone over Skype. I'm trying to do a lot of self-talk exercises, and they've been really helpful. I can also see myself talking to my friend, but I still find it a bit difficult working up the courage to talk immediately to people over Skype I may not know well. That's another thing I need to work on, because I know that using the language is important, both in terms of progress and speaking abilities. I was also considering doing a few sessions on iTalki, but decided to wait it out until I can free up more time and be consistent with them once some things are ticked off my to-do list. That's basically a summary of what I have been up. Do pop in from time to time and say hey! また今度！ Edited by Woodsei on 13 August 2015 at 10:47am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5637 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 310 of 314 16 August 2015 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm kind of here. I'll be moving to the new forum because things won't change around
here. I haven't been studying as much because of my exams that I need to pass for my job. (Accounting in the U.S. requires more exams after finishing school), so I've been busy with that. I'll still check in here time to time to see the group discussion and individual logs, but my future log will be at the new forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4785 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 311 of 314 18 August 2015 at 1:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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@The Real CZ: Good to see you back! And good to know where we can find your log, too. I
definitely see how the other forum's relative ease of use can be more convenient. Can't really blame you for switching over. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| misskj Newbie United States Joined 4339 days ago 28 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 312 of 314 18 August 2015 at 7:54am | IP Logged | |||||
I completely understand you Woodsei. I have been scared to speak Japanese for 3 years but after I realized how much I've improved with Japanese passively (reading light novels but can't hold a conversation? ...) I thought I should really work on speaking. The first few times I skyped in Japanese I was so scared out of my mind. Plus I'm more introverted but it will get easier and I realized it's not the end of the world if they say a word I don't understand I just ask them to repeat or ask them to type out of the word so I can look it up if need be and move on. I don't really know if I should be giving advice because I'm no expert at speaking Japanese yet haha... but what made it easier for me was writing a lot of journals and getting them corrected and typing/chatting first with Japanese people I added on Skype. I found these people on Atskype , sharedtalk and italki. And my listening level was pretty high from watching a lot of shows and getting a ton of passive input. I would definitely say go for it! Plus meeting new people and making connections with people is so fun~ --- Also I'm not really sure if I should continue my log here or on that new site either..I'd prefer the other site because it's newer to be honest :P But I'll be following both websites for now~ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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