How do you study?
Today, I bought a new notebook with every intent of using it to go back to studying Japanese, and I came home with the plan of getting right on that. But then I ran into the problem of not having the slightest idea where to even start. I took three years of classes in college, but I feel like all that knowledge has just drained out and I have no idea how to go about relearning it and making it stick this time. Do I go through vocabulary? Kanji? Or try to wrap my brain around grammar? But how do I do that? I do have this flashcard program called Anki and I think some kanji decks, but I really feel like it doesn't work very well for me. I really liked smart.fm, but since they decided to become a pay only site, that's been out of my reach for a while. Maybe I should just pick a doujinshi to try to translate or something, I dunno.
On that note, I've been thinking about joining a scanlation group for a while, but of course I'm much too wussy to approach anyone about it, and wouldn't know where to even go. I'm sure they wouldn't want to even bother with my Japanese skills, but I'm pretty good at editing and typesetting, and also at making dialogue actually sound natural. A while ago someone else put out a scanlation of a doujinshi I'd been working on before I could finish and the dialogue was so stilted and awkward it was kind of painful to read. So I am pretty confident I could do better than that, at least. But I guess that's just another thing I'll probably never actually do.
I really should do this studying thing, though. I just wish I could figure out where to even start.
On that note, I've been thinking about joining a scanlation group for a while, but of course I'm much too wussy to approach anyone about it, and wouldn't know where to even go. I'm sure they wouldn't want to even bother with my Japanese skills, but I'm pretty good at editing and typesetting, and also at making dialogue actually sound natural. A while ago someone else put out a scanlation of a doujinshi I'd been working on before I could finish and the dialogue was so stilted and awkward it was kind of painful to read. So I am pretty confident I could do better than that, at least. But I guess that's just another thing I'll probably never actually do.
I really should do this studying thing, though. I just wish I could figure out where to even start.