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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 49 of 203 17 July 2013 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
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Anyway, here's my everyday schedule that I plan to follow until my internship starts
(July 29). I've succedeed yesterday and I just have to do my reading for Japanese and that'll be 2days in a row. - 1.5-2 chapters of my Japanese book (海辺のカフカ） - 1 chapter (at least) of 어린왕자 - 1 chapter (at least) of any chinese graded reader I have (right now on 如果没有你） - 1 Lesson of Assimil Norwegian - 3 or more news articles in Japanese - 2 grammar points of Mandarin and then putting 5 examples sentences for each on Lang-8 - Anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 50 of 203 23 July 2013 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
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Up until now, I've been following pretty well my program. I've had one low day.. which
is today. My motivation is at its lowest all of a sudden. I guess we all have those days. I'm tired of forcing myself to read my Japanese book. So I'm changing again my plan and have decided to take my time to read my japanese book (I was planning on finishing it before my internship but it got too stressful). Apart from that, all my languages are doing fine. I've been doing everything everyday and even posted twice in Norwegian on Lang-8. And to compensate for the days I don't post on Lang-8 in Chinese, I study more grammar points the next day. Also on another aspect, I don't know whether I got that from G-Bod or not, but my frustration I had felt a while back with kanjis has been rising up once more. I had been ignoring it, but now that I see G-bod working hard to find a way to study kanji again, I want to do so too. I should be ashamed of the number of kanjis I know right now and if I ever plan on being "fluent" or just passing the JLPT N1, I should know as many characters as possible. (Furthermore, considering my ultimate goal in Japanese is to take one day the 漢字検定1級, the first 2-3000 characters should be a piece of cake). Anyway, I've now taken out my JLPT N1 kanji (総まとめcollection) book that I bought 6-7 months ago, put in in the toilets to read there :p I'm also starting to read on NHK easy news too. It demotivated me many times because I hate having the furigana on top of a kanji but it seems I am now able to ignore it unless the kanji is unknown. I am reading the article, then listening to it while reading, then re-checking if there's any unknown kanji or word before watching to the actual video report. Furthermore, a friend will come back from Japan soon and I'm searching for a good kanji book he could bring back. (if anyboday has an advice..!) On another point: I've stopped my Italian experiment until I find a good program to record the sentences. The best would be on my phone (no transfer needed then) but on computer would be good too. For now the app I use is good (I can speed up the audio), but it doesn't record really loud. If i'm in the metro, I can't hear the sentences. Edited by yuhakko on 24 July 2013 at 2:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 51 of 203 24 July 2013 at 1:52am | IP Logged |
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I've once more let my wanderlust take the best of me and checked out some Ainu. I've
been interested in this language since last year when I did a presentation about it during my time in Japan. I've opened the links I had kept about it. They are in Japanese. I'm actually also interested in the Ainu culture so I'm planning on reading a few articles about it in on those websites. Some kanjis have the pronunciation right after the word (not as furigana) so it's practical because I don't need to be afraid to read it without being willing to. I've read : アイヌ文化まで、アイヌ言葉 and アイヌ文化 の現在. It's really interesting. I'm also going to study little bit by little by the language itself with the pdf and podcasts on : http://www.stv.ne.jp/radio/ainugo/index.html Studying Ainu from Japanese will certainly reinforce my Japanese and analysing how the 2 languages are related is also interesting. (they have small katakanas, like a small プ, ク... so it creates sounds which are not in Japanese). The sentences are formed more or less like japanese (it seems the verb is at the end: タアンペ (これは) コンプ (コンプ, an Ainu dish) ネ(で す) ヤ(=か)). Edited by yuhakko on 24 July 2013 at 2:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 52 of 203 26 July 2013 at 11:58am | IP Logged |
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Just spent 2 full days with an Australian friend for his last days here and as a result
did literally no study. And considering my incoming weekend, I doubt I'll have much time either. However, I did check out a bit my 総まとめ Kanji for JLPT N1 and whilst flipping through the pages, I ended up on the last "week" of study and it was about reading the newspaper. Each day introduced kanjis related to a certain kind of topic (like economics, politics, society, international...). That reminded me of the Kanji exams I got during my exchange last year. It was always around certain topics and it helped a lot more the kanjis to stick. So I searched for something similar online and since I couldn't find I just went to look for the kanji lists from my school last year and I found it! There are many, many topics related to literaly everything so I'll just start with the most interesting ones I think. I'll print the list and then learn each kanji with the help of whatever kanji dictionnary I find online. PS: Was quite weird to see pictures of my friends from last year on the new website for the university. It brought me back for a bit.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 53 of 203 26 July 2013 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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Ooh are these lists publicly available? I think sorting characters by subject is a great
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 54 of 203 27 July 2013 at 3:17am | IP Logged |
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Yes they are! I'm going for the "Love&Marriage, Family, Human, Relations, Ceremonial,
Occasion, Cooking, Daily Life,Work" one in the intermediate level. I think I'll give myself time to assimilate those well so I'll probably go for like 30 or 40 per month and look up as many words using those kanjis as possible. here's the link. It's at the bottom : Kanji lists 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 55 of 203 27 July 2013 at 3:20am | IP Logged |
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I've registered for the 6week challenge with Norwegian! I kinda wanted to do it with
Chinese again but I need to push myself to do more than just one Assimil lesson per day! I know for a fact I'll be doing more Korean, Chinese and Japanese, but if I get more norwegian and finally get some really progress, I'll consider that as a success!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 56 of 203 28 July 2013 at 11:46pm | IP Logged |
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So, my internship will start tomorrow morning. I am kind of thrilled and at the same
time worried. I'm really looking forward to actually use my languages in a more professional way but at the same time afraid that I'll just blackout on basic words or just forget to be polite (my biggest worry). Apart from that, I am being rather serious and doing most of my predicted activities every day. - Chinese is going ok but I need to motivated myself to do the grammar activity more often (it's the one I omit most of the time). - Korean is going really good. I'm almost at the end of The little prince and I think that after that, I'll borrow the English of french version of 새 from 오정희. I've read it once a while back in french and I have the Korean version (signed by the Author!) at home. I'm also starting slowly but surely to study from TTMIK. And everyday I have some conversations with friends. - Norwegian is still alright. I'm just really afraid to drop it again as I'm doing it last everyday (with my internship, I plan on doing the Assimil lesson before work.. but I need to wake up first). - Japanese: Going great. Reading is becoming easier again. I've stopped a bit the book as it was too much stress but I read 3 articles from 読売 everyday, 4 from NHK easy news and 1-2 articles about Ainu culture too. As for Ainu, I've had my very first real lesson today. (I had done the lesson 7 just to check before). It's incredibly interesting and I felt the same excitment I got when I first started Japanese 5 (6?) years ago. Anyway, going to sleep after a podcast from NHK news radio! As they say in Ainu, スイ ウヌカラン ノー！またお会いしましょう！ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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