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dampingwire
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 Message 89 of 256
20 December 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged 
g-bod wrote:
For the TAC, the aim is just to keep a log for the whole year and support
your team mates. And annihilate your bad study habits!


Ah, OK. Well spending all my time on this forum encouraging others to make an
effort sounds much more up my street :-)

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dampingwire
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 Message 90 of 256
27 December 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged 
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.

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dampingwire
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 Message 91 of 256
31 December 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged 
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!

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dampingwire
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 Message 92 of 256
07 January 2013 at 12:09pm | IP Logged 
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).


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Helemano
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 Message 93 of 256
07 January 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged 
dampingwire wrote:
I doubt that I'll eve need to count people's remains (体     )...


dampingwire, you owe me a new computer. I spit my tea out all over the keyboard when I saw this line.
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dampingwire
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 Message 94 of 256
10 January 2013 at 8:31pm | IP Logged 
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!

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Brun Ugle
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 Message 95 of 256
11 January 2013 at 6:42am | IP Logged 
Helemano wrote:
dampingwire wrote:
I doubt that I'll eve need to count people's remains (体     )...


dampingwire, you owe me a new computer. I spit my tea out all over the keyboard when I saw this line.


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.
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Helemano
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 Message 96 of 256
11 January 2013 at 7:23am | IP Logged 
dampingwire wrote:
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!

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.


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