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| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5028 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes  Studies: French | Message 33 of 46 05 April 2012 at 12:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I forgot to bring my mp3 player to work the other day, it was the longest 6 hours of my life. I nearly went mad without my Japanese haha.
I am trying to make kanji a daily habit again, maintaining has gone on long enough and it wont stop nagging me till I am done. The fact that I feel like I cant progress much more till I am done with the kanji is what bugs me. Oh well, guess I got to do the grunt work first . I have a feeling that once I start learning Russian in a few months, I will greatly appreciate the cyrillic script. Edited by fortheo on 05 April 2012 at 12:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 34 of 46 07 April 2012 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know anything about Russian but Japanese certainly makes all my other languages seem a lot easier! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 35 of 46 07 April 2012 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I bet you'll also appreciate the spaces between words. I studied Russia for like a week once and I was
already getting really comfortable with the cryllic script before I got distracted and never went back to it. Japanese is mad hard. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 36 of 46 07 April 2012 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
What do you mean mad hard? Nouns don't have gender and generally don't have plurals. There is only one conjugation of a verb no matter how many people you are talking about. There are very few irregular verbs. There are only 5 vowels and no difficult consonant sounds to worry about...Japanese is easy! (Apart, of course, from keigo, the passive, particles, colloquial speech, lack of cognates, writing system etc etc) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 37 of 46 07 April 2012 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
That bit about there being only one conjugation of a verb (no matter how many people you're talking about) is really misleading.... there's tons of conjugations for verbs and adjectives depending on lots of stuff. Just because the subject isn't taken into account doesn't mean there's no conjugating. Very very misleading. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 38 of 46 07 April 2012 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes you're right, you do have to conjugate for things like negation, tense, aspect and politeness. However I do think that not having to take the subject into account, combined with the very limited number of irregular verbs (there's only three until you get on to honorific language) did make Japanese seem deceptively simple at the elementary stage for me. Prior to Japanese, my only experience of studying a language to an intermediate level was French and I think the learning curve is quite different.
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| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5028 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 39 of 46 18 April 2012 at 1:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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Kanji officially gives me headaches. I didn't do any kanji for two days, and my throbbing headaches went away. I need to find a way to love these characters or else they will be my downfall. Edited by fortheo on 18 April 2012 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5028 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 40 of 46 19 April 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have listened to little red riding hood a few times in Japanese, so today I started picking out the vocab I didn't know, and adding them to anki. It was fun to do something a little different than my normal routine.
I think I will really enjoy the listening and reading method, as I can see actual progress while I am doing it. The sense of accomplishment once you read material that you couldn't a month ago is really refreshing :) Edited by fortheo on 19 April 2012 at 12:26am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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