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| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6077 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 56 01 August 2009 at 5:37am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, I'm already using it. It's a brilliant site, helps a lot especially with the reviews but also with the stories later on I imagine. I am technically on kanji 91, but these reviews are killing me, I got about 50% right. I'm not doing the memorization right, which is quite demotivating. I'm glad that I figured that out now though, instead of at like 1000~. Tomorrow (in too few hours, I should be sleeping), I'm working the 6th day this week with quite long hours (for me anyhow), which seems to drain my energy a lot.
I'll sleep a lot on Sunday, and then re-study the last 50 kanji so that they're properly cemented and try to find a good method of doing that. Next week I only work Monday so that should give me plenty of time for kanji and also.. Assimil! It finally arrived! It's looking great so far, from the little I've seen (and I was also excited to see that I recogniced two kanji), I'll be starting that on Saturday/Sunday depending on how tired I am after work. Generally this week has not been very good for my Japanese learning. Next week will be better I hope. I did get a lot of Pimsleur done in the car to and from work though, I believe I'm on lesson 15. I'm learning a lot from it I feel, at least it's definitely not a waste of time since I'm doing it in the car and couldn't have done anything else then anyhow. The last lessons covered "can", such as "can eat" - taberaremasu. Nice! Edited by mrhenrik on 01 August 2009 at 5:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6077 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 51 of 56 01 August 2009 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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You're awesome turaisiawase, thanks. I'll download the minute I get home from work.
Sharing is caring aye, unfortunately I don't have much to offer in Japanese yet but I do my best to support Norwegian learners at least. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Caturdayz Newbie United States Joined 5596 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 53 of 56 01 August 2009 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
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I tried Pimsleur for a little while, but I think it is just a way to collect a quick library of survival phrases. And while there is certainly nothing wrong with that, the language on there isn't really "genuine".
Anyway, good luck Mrhenrik, it would appear that you and I are going at about the same rate, over the same content, so I'll be watching your progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6077 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 54 of 56 07 August 2009 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
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I wrote my first journal entry on lang-8 today, it can be found here. I probably spent an hour, with an on-line dictionary as well as two books I bought yesterday - Japanese phrasebook by Lonely Planet and the Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary.
I think I did alright, and looking at the corrections I did at least not get completely overwhelmed by corrections at once. I am very satisfied with the Lonely Planet phrasebook. I had decided on getting a Lonely Planet phrasebook if I ever got one after watching Moses McCormick's review of phrasebooks, and after fooling around in a bookstore waiting for a friend I stumbled upon it. I also got the Oxford Beginner's Japanese dictionary. First impression of it is very good - nice contrast with blue kana/kanji and black English words. The English-Japanese section offers an example sentence on nearly all words which is nice. The only problem is that the selection is very slim. To compensate, I used this on-line dictionary which I liked a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6077 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 55 of 56 14 August 2009 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
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Alright, so..
I've been watching a lot of Japanese series recently. I just began and finished the series 電車男 - Densha Otoko (or Train Man) which I have to say was incredibly brilliant. It's based on the true story of an otaku (basically a super-geek) who posts a story on a Japanese forum about how he helped a pretty lady from a drunk in the subway and with the forum's support eventually ends up dating her. A lot of comedy with a tiny little spark of romance in it - and a lot of awkward conversations between the pair so they're quite slow and easier for me to pick up. ^^ Downloaded Keyhole TV and I'm having a lot of fun with it, today I watched a program on the names of the colours (I think ;p) starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the professor guy and Goofy, all in 3D! Very fun. I'm not understanding much yet, but I pick up the odd phrase and the colour names, for instance. I'll usually just leave it on while I do other things on the computer. I'm also working my way through Assimil Japanese, and I'm on lesson 17 right now. Since I already know the kana I cover up the romaji with a sheet of paper and read each sentence aloud at least once before I uncover the romaji in an effort to improve my reading speed. The Remembering the Kanji is at a stand-still right now, I'm not very motivated for it. I think I might start over again but at a much slower pace. This is meant to be fun overall, and setting difficult goals for myself to reach is giving me a challenge - sure - but there's no reward in the end, the journey and the Japanese is the prize so I'll take it in my own speed and have fun all the time. I think that's important. I finally learnt past tense now, I wish I'd learnt it before. It's so simple. いきます。いきました。 きょは、それでぜんぶです。じゃ、まったあ した！ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6077 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 56 of 56 20 August 2009 at 10:55am | IP Logged |
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Moving on with Assimil Japanese, it's going slowly but steadily. I was watching Keyhole TV yesterday, I believe it was テレビ東京 which was airing a program with long boring politician speeches. I managed to pick up that one of them (a woman) wanted to focus on a children's hospital. Woo! ^^
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