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| Rhadryn Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5223 days ago 53 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Latin, German | Message 9 of 9 04 May 2012 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
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Nine months later, I'm still working on languages. My primary focus has been Japanese,
because I want to go to Japan next year, and (BIG GOAL:) I'm planning on taking the JLPT 2 in December. Since I'm living in Vietnam I'm also working on Vietnamese. For the past six months I've been taking 90 minute Japanese classes 4-5 times a week. Say what you like about the classroom setting, but I find it difficult to believe that four 90 minute comprehensible all-Japanese lectures a week isn't a fairly productive way to spend my time. I feel like my listening comprehension has improved considerably. And in the last month the class stepped up the pace with learning vocabulary, so I've learned nearly 600 words in the past 30 days. I've been using Anki to help me do this, and it's solidly part of my routine at this point. On the other hand, I find the improvement in my reading ability disappointing. I have yet to discover anything written for native speakers that doesn't force me to rely on rikai-chan for every fourth word. I tried L-R with 銀河鉄道の夜 and became completely lost, even though I've been trying to read it for a long time. I've found two sites that have given me good reading material though: this collection of short articles and the Japanese page which has a fairly short and simple fairy tale available from the ebooks page. I'm almost finished with these though, and I'm not sure what to do next. I'm also going to start posting on lang-8 again, this time in Japanese. I made one entry and the motivating rush that followed was very strong, so I hope to be able to continue this. It seems like there are a fair amount of people who will correct my Japanese, whereas with French I sometimes didn't get any corrections, and I'm sure it wasn't because my French was perfect. One other thing I'm doing for Japanese. I got an ipod touch for my birthday so I've been using the app KanjiBox at every opportunity to review and improve my Japanese. It has placed me solidly in JLPT3 area, so I think JLPT 2 by December could be within my reach. Vietnamese is really difficult, particularly remembering the vocabulary, and of that especially remembering the tones. I'm not really sure what to do to improve, other than be more diligent in my homework and flashcards. I might try posting on lang-8 as well-- there seem to be an acceptable amount of Vietnamese learners there. I got a Kindle and I have several Spanish and French books on it, and even my Latin textbook (though I would like to make it more readable). Right now I feel like improving my Japanese is so urgent that I don't have time to waste with other languages, but if I get bored or start to feel otherwise, I've got easy access to plenty of material. Edited by Rhadryn on 04 May 2012 at 7:53am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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