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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 921 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok. I ripped it. I haven't watched it yet.
My Losing Japanese Contest Speech 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 922 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Just watched it for the 1st time. I think it's pretty good but I made some mistakes. When I practiced I never got it perfectly right - I would make some strange mistake for unknown reasons. Basically mispronouncing a word for who knows what reason. You can see I got pretty confused partway through - I lost my place for a second. I don't know about the other students - I was literally doing grammar in my head like math while I did the speech. When you're more skilled at a language you do that unconsciously but my unconscious mind wanted to revert to easier, sometimes incorrect grammar. So I had to concentrate.
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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5740 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 923 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Kraemder, your Japanese is quite comprehensible, but your accent is so strong that it
distracts from the content of what you're saying. The rhythm of Japanese is missing. You can probably improve it without too much pain. Good luck with your studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 924 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well no more speech contests for me so heh. I'll probably let the
accent stay where it is for now. When I can start speaking more fluently, I'll focus on the rhythm I think. Thanks for the feedback. *edit* At least in my class, some student's accents are so thick the professor can't understand them. Generally not American accents though.. Chinese accents. That really surprised me. I know that English has plenty of equivalents to match up with almost all of the sounds in the Japanese language and be comprehensible but I guess not all other languages do. You'd think Chinese speakers would be closer in pronunciation though. At least I would. Just because the countries are close and Japanese borrows so much from China. Edited by kraemder on 07 May 2013 at 6:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4445 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 925 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's very good: brave to do it and brave to post it.
If you've yet to pass N4 I'm basically stuffed this summer :-) (Those two head shadows at the front are weird - did they actually have St' Vitus' dance or is that an artefact of the ripping??). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 926 of 1702 07 May 2013 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Is this a legitimate excuse for losing? I think it's got to be one of those... Anyway, I would like to think I'd pass if I took the N4 right now. It was a near miss last December. And I wasn't studying for the N4 per se (aside from extra vocabulary studying). I was taking the course offered by my school. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 927 of 1702 08 May 2013 at 9:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I last entry I think while I'm a still a student. I didn't get a little too if studying done unfortunately. But I did
learn how to write the vocab in kanji for the extra credit section. And i enjoyed studying that so much that I'm going to try to learn all vocab this way. Maybe I'll stick with it. It might make me focus on the kanji more so that it sticks in the head more.. Utilize my visual memory right? The way the cards are setup.. Sound on side one and a scree n to draw the kanji. Then side two has all the other info fort the card.. Like the hiragana and the English and the kanji. Whenever I switch up how I test I usually enjoy it more and then after a few days it gets boring again. I haven't done it again this way in a while. I don't remember if I got bored or just felt it took too much time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4964 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 928 of 1702 08 May 2013 at 9:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh I got and decides to return the Samsung Galaxy s4 today. It is a really nice phone. But when you have
a bigger note 2 you just find it hard to let go of the extra screen room. And with the way I'm working on drawing kanji atm I think I rather like the stylus that goes with the note 2. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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