I feel really frustrated today. While I've been putting in hours each day trying to learn Japanese, it still feels like I'm getting nowhere. I find it hard to make my own basic sentences, I keep getting the grammar points wrong and I can never remember how to conjugate the verbs properly! No matter how much I do a day, it feels like I've forgotten ( Read more... )

♥ I think I should try and brush up (and improve) on my very rusty Mandarin. Maybe my Mandarin skills might give me an edge when looking for work in the Netherlands (or anywhere else for that matter). Must set some time aside from my 日本語 study and dedicate it to some 中国語 revision ( Read more... )

I was bored so I created a little community called easyjapanese. It's mostly for my own benefit as it gives me somewhere to post Japanese phrases and words without writing them all down in my notebook.

I'll get around to promoting it properly...for now, it's there if anyone wants to learn a bit of Japanese. ^_^

こんにちわ！お元気ですか？

私はKelly です。日本語が少し知ります。今日は、風が強いです。今日、鮭刺身を食べました。

じゃ、また。

Ok, that's some random Japanese which is probably all incorrect but hey! I just wanted to test the input system to see if I could get it to type in Japanese. :)

Back to my studies...

♥ Had a lovely day out at Gu Qi Feng with Sander yesterday and it actually was not only *not* raining but these was some hazy sunshine too! Took plenty of photos, which I will put up eventually. The place was quite nice...lots of random artwork and statues in a very unkempt park/garden. Some of the art was obviously fake, unless Taiwan really ( Read more... )

+ Completed Tomb Raider Legend with some help from Sander. We've taken it in turns to fully complete the levels (eg. finding all the rewards and doing the time trials). It's shocking how easy the game is and how little time it takes to complete. I really wish there had been more than 8 levels...

+ Bought 2 more books for my Japanese study : Barron ( Read more... )

Sander and I headed up to Taipei yesterday hoping to catch something 'Dragon Boar' related (even though most of the festivities happened during the weekend) but sadly our efforts were more than a little wasted. Instead, we were treated to a very 'exciting' event which saw hundreds of green plastic or paper frogs float downstream. I'm assuming it ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a fairly productive day, even if it was partly for the wrong reasons ( Read more... )

I've decided I want to learn at least some basic Japanese. Sander and I will be spending a long weekend in Kyoto sometime soon (probably July) so I thought being able to stumble through the basics might somehow enrich our experience there. Also, I'm frankly a bit bored with Chinese and need something to break up the monotony as far as my life (and ( Read more... )