cantonese
now i've been doing a little reading about cantonese to see what kind of grammar and stuff it has.... this is the book i'm starting with, scroll down past all the intro stuff and you'll find directly-translated sentences.
i collected all the books on openlibrary and put them into a list here, will slowly read through them. meanwhile i've made a daily plan that i can hopefully stick to to make myself super productive with my school stuff...
i watched eps from something-or-other "ebichu", which is a perverted version of hamtaro and really funny, and some other newer show which was a cross between suzumiya and yuru yuri (that i didn't like). but i could understand a TON of the japanese! i only watched the first ep of the second show, but it was on crunchyroll where you can turn off subs completely, and i understood about 90% of everything!!
so, now i'm thinking that by next year i can DEFINITELY be really good at understanding japanese. meaning that i can be at a point where it'd be no real problem for me to actually live in japan. i just have to keep up my kanji ad vocab study, i don't even think i need to worry about grammar anymore since i know enough that i can even learn the other grammar pieces by context if i need to.
it was my birthday yesterday, i'm 24 now... i got some cold-smoked salmon, shrimp, berries, and some money. overnight i got emails from some family members but as usual they're not really "saying" anything. the emails are always like this: "hi! the weather has been x here. would love to hear from you. love, y" and it's like... no matter what i respond with they never say they can help me out or anything, and they don't like discussing any deep topics and whenever i try they normally have really weird views because they don't really know anything about it, so what's the point.