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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4762 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 441 of 706 31 January 2014 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Silver Spoon is aimed at a slightly older audience, being based on a shonen manga. It's about a city kid trying to fit in at an agricultural high school in rural Hokkaido. The subs appear on kitsunekko immediately after airing, but this series is a bit more plot-driven than 団地ともお, so some things may be hard to follow if you haven't seen the first season. Since it's on my top 10 list of last year's anime, personally I think it's worth catching up on. The Hokkaido dialect that I mentioned in my log shouldn't pose a problem, but all the agriculture-related vocabulary could, especially if you have zero interest in learning it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5156 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 442 of 706 31 January 2014 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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kuji, you've come up with a great list of small activities. Well-done!
I have the same issue as you, that of being too dependent on computers. I bet it gets better when one improves at reading (or at least either gets comfortable with reading extensively OR gets a built-in dictionary for one's reader). It is safe and wise to mark those non-computer-dependent activities in bold and keep them in mind for when you see the opportunity. I don't think you should drop intensive Japanese study yet, though. You got fed up with the podcasts, indeed. Is there any other source of shorter lessons you could use, for when you can't study from your usual textbooks? Long lessons can be discouraging indeed. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 443 of 706 31 January 2014 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Japanese is also available at GLOSS btw. though I have no clue if the lessons would be too easy for you or not.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4655 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 444 of 706 31 January 2014 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
I was going to say that if someone had told me this 20 years ago I'd be an awesome polyglot now ...
... and then @kujichagulia beats me to it. I'm going to pass this pearl of wisdom on to my kids. I know they won't listen, but at least I'll be able to say "I told you so" years from now :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5972 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 445 of 706 31 January 2014 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When I was 16 years old my French teacher told me I should start listening to the radio. I didn't listen back then either!
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4837 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 446 of 706 01 February 2014 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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@vonPeterhof - TV showの おすすめ、ありがとう！ I'll be sure to look into those shows and see if they are for me.
@Expugnator - Putting the non-computer-related activities in bold is a good idea! Thank you for that tip. As for the podcasts, I'm not really fed up with intensive Japanese study. I'm fed up with those (Language)Pod101.com podcasts - basically I'm fed up with the Innovative Learning company. Maybe it's better if I actually get a subscription instead of getting their free podcasts, but I really don't want to do that. Instead of those, I'll probably start using the Japanese GLOSS lessons more often, and maybe seek out some other Japanese-learning podcasts for intermediate students. @Serpent - Thank you for the GLOSS tip. Actually, doing Japanese GLOSS lessons is a task on my "at home" rotation I wrote above. I haven't done it regularly up to now, but I will make it a point to do so from now on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4837 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 447 of 706 01 February 2014 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Hehehe. You remind me of something related to that. I've always been interested in Canada, especially Quebec. Around age 12, I used to take my AM/FM stereo outside at night in Atlanta and seek out Radio-Canada AM stations. I never understood what they said, but it was neat to listen to. And ever since I discovered the Internet in college almost 18 years ago (wow, I'm old), I've occasionally turned on a Radio-Canada stream and other streams such as Radio France. I sometimes watch the French Canadian news channel RDI online, or watch videos at the RDS sports website. It has never compelled me to seriously study French. Maybe one day. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5216 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 448 of 706 01 February 2014 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Has to vary from one person to another -- but I always complain most of my [co-]students would never read books, watch films, etc., in languages they were studying, despite being advised to do so. Just the opposite of me. Then again, I did because it was a natural extension of my newfound superpowers, not because someone told me so. Ummm...
Would you have listened...
... given how you don't expect your own kids to do it? ;) If I ever form a family, I'll try to make my children learn as early as possible how important it is to add to one's own process whatever one can learn from what others do -- it just saves so much time. If later on they choose not to, it won't be my fault for not having told them :-) Edited by mrwarper on 01 February 2014 at 3:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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