Using Casual Games to Practice Japanese
To really learn a language it is important to try to really immerse yourself. When, I first started studying Japanese I didn’t really immerse myself. I actually treated it more like any other subject at school. I did my homework. I read books and took some notes here and there, but that was about it. Language is one thing that [...]
JLPT BC 80 | N2 Grammar – tutu
I’ve recently been using a little different strategy for my vocabulary practice. I think for the N1 level, since there are literally thousands of words to learn, I’ve been hedging my bets between reviewing words from the books I’ve read and using the standard lists. I think this offers up a good compromise between natural learning and list learning. I [...]
How to Get Out of a Slump
About three years ago, I wasn’t really studying Japanese all that hard. At that time I had already passed 三級 (old N4) and I was kind of lazily making my way through 二級 (old N2) books. I honestly felt a little worn out and frustrated. I went through all the exercises in all the books, but I didn’t really feel [...]
JLPT BC 79 | Giving Birth in Japan
I’m currently on the look out for a good new jDrama to watch. I just finished off Nagareboshi, which I talked about last week, but I want to watch something new now that has a lot of everyday Japanese in it. This can sometimes be more difficult than it sounds. I recently tried Gakusen, which is supposed to be a [...]
Sound Symbolism in Japanese
Anyone that has studied Japanese for any length of time, knows that it is a unique language to say the least. Not only does it use three alphabets, one of which it borrowed from a language that has nothing to do with it grammatically. It also has some unique features that surprised me when I first started studying the language. [...]
I’m starting to really put some pressure on myself to study these days. The July test is coming soon and although I have no real aspirations of passing it, I still want to at least score slightly above zero on the test. I still have a lot to go through before I even have a good foundation in place though. [...]
Time is a fickle thing. We never seem to have enough of it, and it always ends up slipping away before we know it. It can be our greatest enemy or our best friend depending on how you look at it. But, it is obviously one of the more useful things to know about when it comes to using a [...]
I’m more than half way through ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞の本 (230/350 pages) and things are getting a lot smoother. I’m really able to pick up and understand a lot more. There are the occasional chapters that I get really messed up about, but one strategy that I’ve started to adopt more and more is try to push my way through the entire essay. [...]
It seems everyone is always looking for that quick fix when it comes to language study. I’ve definitely been searching for it since I’ve started studying. It seems like in this day and age, we should have some painless way to learn another language. I mean, we can get a cheeseburger in just a few minutes, sometimes seconds, so why [...]
We are just heading out of the cherry blossom season here in Japan. This is where everyone gets to cure their cabin fever by going out to the park to have a few drinks. I personally am starting to love the spring weather and the fact that I don’t have to bundle up to go outside or wake up to [...]
In school, everything seems to start out pretty peachy. We get to play games and sing songs and there is story time and no one is really graded on anything. The idea is to just get used to coming to school and not eating the glue. Basic stuff really. But then, we are introduced to the red pen. It seems [...]
I’m starting to make steady progress toward my goal of N1. I’m trying to chew threw as many vocabulary words as I possibly can as I make my way through the sheer volume of vocabulary that you have to know in order to pass. I’m still primarily using StickyStudy’s N1 list and I’m making pretty good progress so far (currently [...]
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