The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 585 of 844 11 June 2012 at 3:18am | IP Logged |
Yeah, after the FBI trolled everyone by removing Megaupload, all of the other direct
download sites suck ass except for Mediafire, but there's no way I'd spend my time
downloading 8 separate files lol.
I don't like MNet Countdown either since the sound system they use is so bad, but I do
watch it if a girl group I like is promoting on there lol.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 586 of 844 20 June 2012 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
Really, the only thing I've done in the past week is listen to music and watch some
dramas. I read 70 pages of a book one morning while watching Inkigayo last week, but
haven't done much reading since then.
BoA - Implode
BoA's making a comeback in August and I can't wait. Anyway, probably won't be doing much
tomorrow since I'm taking the ASVAB.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 587 of 844 22 June 2012 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
That reminds me. I watched the two Running Man episodes recently that featured BoA and I honestly wouldn't have recognized her without the name being spoken / displayed. She looked quite different from when she was performing Hurricane Venus / Dangerous / Copy and Paste. She looked a lot younger during Running Man than she did last I saw her perform on music shows. I'm not sure if it was the difference in hairstyle / color or what.
On that topic: Do you have any song suggestions among BoA's Japanese releases?
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 588 of 844 22 June 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged |
The makeup for Hurricane Venus made her look ten years older lol.
Wow, there's a lot of good BoA songs.
Dakishimeru, Meri Kuri, Winter Love, Listen To Your Heart, Valenti, Do The Motion, Bump Bump, Eien, Mamoritai, the Love Bug (with m-flo), Bad Drive (watch a live performance of this song), etc. If you need more recommendations after you check those out, just ask. BoA's my favorite, so there's plenty to recommend lol.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 589 of 844 01 July 2012 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
Translated a couple of articles about Han Ye Seul. Aside from that, same ol' same ol'.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 590 of 844 04 July 2012 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
Started up Japanese again. For a while, I thought Jpop was dead. Okay, it still is since the idols there are so terrible, but some of my favorite artists started releasing music again and I found a couple of new artists that I like.
Japanese will still be secondary to Korean though. Now that I don't rely on Anki anymore, studying Japanese won't be a problem anymore.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 591 of 844 05 July 2012 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
It's good to see you reviving Japanese again. Being off-work today slightly derailed my plans for 5 Pimsleur Japanese lessons this week (since I use my commute for the follow up passes), but it has done wonders for my Korean since I added 10 Hanja cards, added 31 한국어 cards, watched several Korean shows, and read some from 노인과 바다.
I haven't delved very far into Japanese music yet, but I'm sure I will. Currently there are only 3 Japanese songs I find myself intentionally listening to on my MP3 player: KARA - Go Go Summer, KARA - Jet Coaster Love, and AKB48 - Beginner. I haven't had a chance to check out the BoA songs you listed previously, but I will soon. Of course, it would probably be wise of me to move toward Japanese music sung by native Japanese singers, as well...ㅎㅎㅎ That said, the only "native" Japanese music I have currently is AKB48 and Amuro Namie and most of those songs haven't really caught my interest other than "Beginner" as I noted above. I could try watching Japanese music shows but I barely seem to find the time to watch the Korean ones often enough to stay less than a month behind.
I've been tempted to try dropping the SRS for Spanish to see if that is enough to breathe some life back into it. However, I still find it very useful for Korean and Japanese (though it probably helps that I have plenty of motivation for those two languages). Then again, it could just be the source material (Assimil) that is sapping my interest for Spanish more so than the SRS.
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Ymer Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4838 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Korean
| Message 592 of 844 05 July 2012 at 12:35pm | IP Logged |
The Real CZ wrote:
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I'm curious, why do you think the idols there are terrible :)?
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