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kraemder
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 Message 1065 of 1702
05 September 2013 at 8:10am | IP Logged 
I'm pretty fluent more or less in German even after taking huge breaks of totally ignoring it.. but I just had a Japanese lesson and was struggling to remember 泳ぐ. I'm hoping it's not because I'm studying it later in life and my brain is dead. Actually based on an article regarding sleep deprivation I just read it might be that my lack of sleep has caught up to me. I am hoping however it's that I spent hours and hours talking to myself or thinking German and that's what I need to force myself to do in Japanese. Once upon a time I really wanted to be fluent in German. I wish I could turn that same desire on for Japanese. I think part of it was that I thought I could actually achieve it whereas with Japanese it just seems so hard.

Than again, I'm still doing this Japanese thing after 2 years. Most of these logs people start a new language and it doesn't go anywhere.
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 Message 1066 of 1702
05 September 2013 at 9:32am | IP Logged 
Ich hasse dieses Wort.. 泳ぐ. Immer noch ich dachte mal es heißt おそぐ... verdammt. Ich schäme mich darüber. Auf jedenfall ich will mehr Japanisch lesen. Ich habe dieses Buch aus Amazon heruntergeladen - Holding the Iron Memories. Es sieht aus, als ob es ein echte Geschichte ist. Andere Geschichte sind meistens Porn oder nur Bilder oder noch was nutzloses. Ich weiss nicht wie viele Bücher auf deutsch ich schone gelesen habe aber ich denke nach noch ein paar Bücher wird Japanisch ja besser gehen. Ich hoffe. Ich habe mein Vater gesagt dass ich eine Kurs auf Deutsch nehme und er sagte mir aber du hast kein Kurs seit vielen Jahren genommen - das soll schwer sein. Ich sagte nur das stimmt aber ich fühle mich noch sehr fließend im Vergleich zu Japanisch. Er sagte mal, Japanisch ist wahnsinnig schwer. Im Vergleich zu Japanisch muss alles ganz einfach wirken.

Verdammte Japanisch. Warum muss ich dich lernen.

German class tomorrow. Warming up I guess. Gonna go try to read in Japanese some more.
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 Message 1067 of 1702
10 September 2013 at 11:14am | IP Logged 
I was thinking of taking the JLPT in Japan this December as an excuse to finally go visit. To my dismay I read the following the JLPT site...

If you apply via the Internet, you can apply from outside of Japan, however, we accept the registered address located only in Japan. On the other hand, the Application Guide for those who apply by mail is only sold in Japan and we do not accept any applications sent from abroad. If you live abroad and wish to sit the JLPT in Japan, please ask your family or friends in Japan to help you to make an application on your behalf. They will need your photo sized 4 cm (vertical) X 3 cm (horizontal). Also addresses and telephone numbers on the application forms should be those in Japan. So please discuss well in advance with whoever is assisting you in making the application in Japan.

OMG that is dumb. There's a lot not to like about the JLPT organization. Why wouldn't they want to encourage tourism and students to come take the test there? Ugh.
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dampingwire
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 Message 1068 of 1702
10 September 2013 at 2:50pm | IP Logged 
kraemder wrote:
I was thinking of taking the JLPT in Japan this December as an excuse
to finally go visit. To my dismay I read the following the JLPT site...


IOW, I see what you mean. OTOH if I pay for my own trip to Japan (i.e. not a business
trip) I think I'd like to see the sights rather than the inside of a uni classroom :-)

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 Message 1069 of 1702
10 September 2013 at 11:59pm | IP Logged 
I would like to do some Japanese studying if I did a trip probably but this would have been only for the test...
I'd do one day for the test and 2 weeks of tourist stuff :(. But I can't do that at all. I have to fly to another city
anyway since they don't offer the test in Arizona. I'm thinking San Francisco - so I can do some tourist stuff
too. It'll be a shorter trip though.
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kraemder
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 Message 1070 of 1702
13 September 2013 at 9:34am | IP Logged 
私はまだ待っています、二十月一日を休めれ かどうか。希望があるで当たり前だ。今日、 新しい携帯来たこ
とを読んだ。それはノート3と言う携帯だ。 はiPhone5sとちょっとがっかりしてしまうが、 この携帯は面
白いみたいだよ。ノート1と2より、retinaのよ な画面を持っている。それとも、この画面 方が大きくな
る。素晴らしいでしょう。^_^ 。私の古い携帯を売らなきゃ。
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kraemder
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 Message 1071 of 1702
16 September 2013 at 3:55pm | IP Logged 
I just noticed that on android all of the posts on this site are in different font sizes. But on the iPhone all the
fonts are the same and it's much more readable. But the screen is smaller.

Anyway. I'm caught up on my grammar SRS reviews. I kinda didn't think that would ever happen since all I
ever seem to work on is my vocab reviews. So it feels good and I need to make some cards to go with the
lessons I'm doing on the Japanese language website I'm doing. I definitely need to practice them more or it
won't be active. Or passive after a while either. Most of the grammar I'm doing now doesnt repeat itself very
often so.

Also I've kind of done a 180 regarding kanji. A month ago I was doing RTK again and even making myself
learn Chinese sounds to go with the kanji. Now my plan is to not really study kanji too much at all and to just
focus on vocab. So I'm turning on the furigana using a fire fox add on quite often like most of the time. I hadn't
used his add on.

So I'm doing my flashcards 2 ways. One with kanji and furigana and the other deck is to produce the English.
It seems to be working pretty well but then I suppose that some people would want to test reading without the
furigana. I've heard that reading manga with furigana is a good way to learn kanji so maybe it's not so bad of
me. If not I don't think I'll care too much anyway. For now.
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 Message 1072 of 1702
16 September 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged 
You should pay more attention to verb placement in German; the verbs don't always come
after the subjects; in some cases they even show up before the subject!

My German isn't quite the "yellow from the egg" either, so I can't correct it for you
though. :p

I'm hoping to get onto a German class at my uni too.. hopefully they won't fill up
before the semester begins in two weeks (the placement test is on the 1st or 2nd
october).


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