Tuesday, January 31, 2012

hiatus.

so once again i'm on social networking hiatus. twitter is seriously distracting and addicting it makes me so unproductive.

anyway i'll be posting my weekly goals here from now on.

Goals
1.) Learn and retain at least five Kanji (Japanese First Grade Level)
2.) Demonstrate retention of katakana/hiragana.
3.) Learn at least ten important vocabulary words.
4.) Only use the Twitter created to tweet in Japanese.
5.) One Rosetta Stone lesson a day.
6.) One Japanese drama episode/movie a day.
7.) Continue Human Japanese.
8.) Review Pimsleur lessons for retention.

So until i'm satisfied with my goal list, I won't use Twitter.

がんばります!


Sunday, January 22, 2012

my face since I've been slacking on the Japanese. I think I'll leave Twitter for the weekends. I'm do unproductive whilst using it.

twitter is for twats

I cheated and used Twitter today ;____; forgive me but I really missed my followers, anyway i'm halfway done with katakana now and the Twitter hiatus is back on. A word to the wise (aka people studying Japanese just like me) stroke order is EVERYTHING. Please learn the proper stroke order for kana or else you'll get stuck in doing it the wrong way which means you'll overall be fucked.

Stroke order, stroke order, stroke order. I recommend this site to help you with that.

Oh yeah,I made a new twitter specifically to tweet in Japanese. I haven't used it much yet (due to my hiatus) but I plan on using it for that from now on.

Friday, January 20, 2012

美しい Hawaiian そらです。

I'm aware I post tons of pictures of そらとつきです but I can't help it, look how gorgeous nature is.

still studying katakana, it's fairly easy as long as you don't think of the words being spelled out as English words. They're more like Japanese versions of English words....so I just treat them as Japanese words.

がんばります!

やった!

with four hours of dedication (seriously it's almost 7am and I haven't slept a wink) I've mastered the muddled sounds! 

with the help of this site it's safe to say i'm cool with hiragana.

すごい!

by the way, I know hiragana and katakana are fairly easy and it's the kanji that's a bitch - but i'm really proud of myself for accomplishing this. 

*pats self on back*

time to put my siblings on the bus, then sleep, then i'll wake up and conquer katakana. 

がんばります!


gonna dedicate one more day to hiragana, the muddled sounds are killing me.

がんばります!