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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 169 of 232 19 July 2009 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
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I spent 40 minutes at SharedTalk. Group text chat - 10 minutes, 30 minutes one-on-one.
I've just printed out 4 emails from penpals that I've been receiving since Friday: two of them are 3 pages each! I tell you, Sunday is Language Exchange Day in japan. I won't rush to answer these. I'll start working on one of them and then I'll do some vocabulary work. I may have to change my profile at SharedTalk to stop the other emails from coming -- I've reached my penpal limit. I responded to those 3 new people with a "yes, I'll try" and I just wrote a "no, I can't" to my most recent request for an exchange. At least I'm getting plenty of experience writing in Japanese! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 170 of 232 21 July 2009 at 4:18pm | IP Logged |
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Two more came in yesterday. I've gotten a total of 6 emails all together. (it's almost hard to keep track.) I have three more replies and that should do it for this wave. This is my last log entry until -- sometime next week. I'm preparing for a very spontaneously booked vacation. I have to go pick up the tickets in about an hour..
I'm getting a lot of practice writing. I'm a bit swamped at the moment, but I've been able to keep up so far.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 171 of 232 30 July 2009 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
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Yesterday was the first day I was able to get back to my emails. I've written about 3 correspondants. Here's what my writing looks like so far:
今年の夏はディズニーランドパリの15周年に �� ��るので、入場料割引もを持ってきました 。� ��場料はたいてい非常に高いですので、格 安� ��を利用しようのは、よかったね。私は子 供� ��ときは、ディズニーランドに行くの欲し い� ��に、行ったことがありません。思いがけ な� ��夢だったそうです。 金曜日の朝五時に起きた、フランスへ行きま した。道には旅行者が少なだったし、天気が いいだったし、問題がないんです。ドイツか らディズニーランドまで5ぐらいかかりまし � �。運転も時間がたくさんあった難しい。疲 � �ましたが、ホテルに着くの後歩いてパルク � �見物しました。すばらしい！お菓子がたく � �んありました！わたがし食べるのは幼年期 � �来まで食べたことがありません。レストラ � �でもう食べましたが、その料理、高くて、 � �し味がない。フランス料理は美味しいと思 � �たはずなんですけど。でも、ディズニーラ � �ドパリでは、いいフランス料理を食べられ � �せん。 My sent version doesn't have all that garbage in it, though.... Two days ago I got my first issue of "Hirigana Times". This plus the emails will keep me busy until the end of my TAC. It's a magazine for learners of Japanese. The articles are in both languages + furigana. I read the "Multilevel Hiragana Text" about Japanese life expectancy yesterday. This is the section of the magazine with extra notes and a very thorough translation. There's even a link to smart.fm for extra vocab study: http://smart.fm/landing/Hiragana. Haven't tried it yet. Too busy reading. There's even a job section. Love it. I'd like to start over with French. I was able to do tourist-y kinds of exchanges getting into Disneyland. I only had trouble at a couple of restaurants. I tried to order Cola Lite and I got a Heineken. Go figure. Edited by Sunja on 30 July 2009 at 8:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 172 of 232 30 July 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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Link dropping time:
Hiragana Times at smart.fm For the purpose of doing some extra vocab work with these HT articles I've started two new lists. I just spent 30 minutes with the first list. As soon as I read this other article I'll go back and work with the second list... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 173 of 232 31 July 2009 at 11:08am | IP Logged |
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All's quiet on the email front. I must have really given them something to do with my last writings...
I plan to read my Hiragana Times today and work on the vocab using smart.fm. I may consider making my own list. This would be a lot of fun, although I have to keep in mind I couldn't spend too much time making said list. Too much playing around at smart.fm, and I don't realise that I could be learning just as much by casually looking at the words in the magazine 5 times a day. I'll have to consider the efficiency factor on that one.. I have one more week of "USE IT OR LOSE IT", then I can kiss my casual summer break goodbye. I have to start working in the mornings, starting one week from this coming Monday. I also have to prepare for my kids' going back to school. That includes Schultüten basteln, Hefte, Mappen (usw.) sammeln. There's two of them so I have double the fun this fall. Edited by Sunja on 31 July 2009 at 11:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 174 of 232 31 July 2009 at 9:37pm | IP Logged |
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I've finished one of the Hiragana Times partner lists at smart.fm. I'm almost half way through the second list. I've already started composing some new writing using some new stuff I've picked up. ~niwa...arimasu., hashiri mawaru, doonika suru, among others. I can't wait to get more into this magazine. I'll be taking a break tomorrow because I'm making a day-trip to Köln.
I'm not getting as much done as I'd like -- that comes from having everyone here during summer break. I can't wait to gauge my progress at the end of the month. I'll be taking one of my first emails and comparing it with my latest, best shot at writing Japanese. I'm hoping the results will make me sit back with --- akireta kao o suru -- an amazed face. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 175 of 232 02 August 2009 at 11:25am | IP Logged |
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I really want to compose a list for smart.fm -- buuuuut this is going against my own idea of efficiency -- I'll spend too much time playing.
I read quite a bit of my magazine on the train yesterday. I'm waiting for my mom to finish downloading photos from her netbook so I can send some vacation shots to one of my penpals, who is eagerly awaiting a decent report. I have to try to find a small, simple way to describe some of those grand scale exhibits in the Kölner Zoo yesterday. (The elephant park was pretty impressive. Never seen 11 elephants up close...) I wrote a new Japanese correspondant this morning at SharedTalk. I haven't been able to get back to text chat since my vacation. That will have to wait. I really want to continue reading as much as I can. If I can get into a groove where I'm reading, looking up words (with an old-fasioned hard copy dict. -- this is most effective for me) and cross-referencing I think I can get a lot accomplished. I've been doing a lot of writing lately, and I have to balance that out. Can't wait for my next issue of HT. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 176 of 232 02 August 2009 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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If I don't catalogue Yukari's corrections they'll just sit here on my desk and I'll never read them, so here goes:
dizuniirandopari de ryokoo wo shimashita. ---) when will I ever learn the rules for DE and NI? ryokoo wo suru takes NI, ryokoo wo suru takes NI, ryokoo wo suru takes NI... kotoshi no natsu ha dizuniirandopari no jyuugo shuunen ni aru no de, nyuujyoryomo wo mottekimashita. ----) NA ARU NO DE, nyuujyoryomo WARIBIKIKEN wo mottekimashita. watashi ga kodomo no toki ni ha, dizuniirando ni iku no hoshii no ni, itta koto ga arimasen deshita omoigakenai yume datta sou desu. ---) ....dizuniirando ni IKITAKATTA no ni, .... omoigakenai yume DESHITA. kinyoubi no asa goji ni okita, furanzu he ikimashita.---) ...goji ni OKITE, ... I need to remember the connecting TE. machi ni ha ryokousha ga sukunakatta shi, tenki ga ii datta shi, mondai ga nai desu. ---) ryokoosha ga sukunakatta shi, tenki MO ii YOKATTA NO DE, (MONDAI GA NAKATTA DESU.) She also offers this alternative: ryokoosha MO sukunakatta shi, tenki mo ii yokatta SHI, YOKATTA DESU. Here comes a really good one: unten mo jikan ga takusan atta muzukashii. tsukuremashita ga, hoteru ni tsuku no ato aruite paruku de kenbutsushimashita. ----) unten JIKAN MO takusan atta NO DE TSUKUREMASHITA GA,hoteru ni TSUKIITA ATO, ARUITE KENBUTSUSHIMASHITA. subarashii! okashi ga takusan arimashta. watashi taberu no ha yoonenki no toki innai made tabeta koto ga arimasen deshita. ---) subarashii okashi ga takusan arimashita. watashi WA SONO OKASHI WO KODOMO NO TOKI MADE TABETA.... Yukari mentions that I can't use irai and made in the same sentence. Of course that makes sense. Essentially I just wrote "since until". Ouch. resutoran de mo tabemashita ga, sono ryoori, takakute, sukoshi aji ga nai. ---) sono ryoori HA takakute sukoshi aji ga ARIMASEN DESHITA. Furansu ryoori ha oishii to omotta hazu nan desukedo. deizunirandopari de ha, ii furansu ryoori wo taberaremasen. demo, sugoi deshita. ---) furansu ryoori ha oishikatta hazu nan desukedo. ....OISHI furansu ryoori wo .... WHEW. That was all of the corrections. Here, I just got another mail from one of my other penpals: スーゼンさんこんにちは！お元気ですか？と ても楽しそうな写真ありがとうございました ！スーゼンさんはとても綺麗な方ですね！！ ディズニーランド旅行はとても良かったみた いですね(^-^)bとても楽しそうです♪お話聞か せていただいてありがとうございました！私 も行ってみたくなりました。それにしてもせ っかくフランスに行ってフランス料理食べた のに、味がないなんて残念でしたね…(￣ー � �)お土産も沢山買いましたか？ Obviously I gave this penpal the same version of what I wrote Yukari (lol). Did I buy omiyage? Hmm. I bought a "Mike" from "Monster's Inc." to put on my desk. I wanted a "Roz" but they didn't have one. I --don't-- think she's going to recognize that as a suvonier so I'll just tell her I bought some postcards... Now I have to work on this penpal's English corrections (she talked about her baking) and after that I plan to inquire about the Obon festival which should be coming up, and of course, I have to write a response to the yummy-looking picture she sent me of her strawberry and choco marble mini-cakes,... Edited by Sunja on 02 August 2009 at 7:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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