Wow, school just kinda snuck up on me and left me with absolutely no free time :| I have all of today free though, so I'm going to try to post something. Sorry for being such an unreliable poster, guys -_-;;
And yeah... this year I don't have as many readings as last year, but instead I have three language courses to keep up with -_________- It's been very adhfakdhfakdjhfaksjdhskjdfh this week. But I think I'm getting the hang of it now! XD
Duuuuuuuuuude, I'm having enough trouble with JUST my Japanese course (they should have renamed the course 'If you don't have previous knowledge/know absolutely everything YOU WILL FAIL, PLZ TO BE CRAMMING ENTIRE TEXTBOOK INTO YOUR HEAD NAO' instead of just 'accelerated intro Japanese')
How you can manage three languages, um, yeah, I'm now convinced you're super-human, since there is no way you have time to eat and sleep with that course load. OR YOU HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY AND ARE A SUPER-GENIUS. Okay, you're now that, so I won't feel like such a failure as my four courses are beating me half-way to China. T^T
Scyther is staring at you in awe, really, he is. So much awe he can't even express it properly.
Dude, my Japanese course was the same. I'm in second year, so thankfully we're past the "LEARN ALL HIRAGANA AND KATAKANA NAAAO", but still on the FIRST day of class it was like "'KAY GUYS, WE'RE JUST GOING TO COVER TWO UNITS IN ONE HOUR FOR TEH LULZ. OH AND BTW YOU HAVE TO LEARN THESE NEW KANJI. HAVE FUN WITH THE STROKE ORDER!!" and we all went "DDDDD8". It doesn't help that our prof speaks at the speed of light and uses as little English as possible, and she writes most of her overheads in Japanese - using kanji that we're not supposed to know yet! >___< It's a tough class, but I like it, so it's not too bad
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Yeaaaaaaaaah, I have it four days a week. A one hour lab on day, then two hour classes the other days. IT IS INSANE OMG. I feel SO SO SORRY for the people who started out knowing nothing because the teacher was all 'LULZ. HIRAGANA. MONDAY. KNOW IT >|' it was Wednesday at the time
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I have it four times a week as well, though I have one two-hour lecture and the rest are one-hour tutorials, which is where we get to practice the stuff we learn in lecture. Though usually new kanji and vocab get introduced in tutorial anyway -___-;;;
The kicker is that my prof speaks PERFECT English. She just chooses not to use it ._____.
It slows down in a fashion once you get to second year... I mean, because by then you know your hiragana/katakana/plain form (oh, you're going to have a ball with that one! Japanese is the only language I know where the casual way of speaking is MORE COMPLICATED than the polite one!) and particles fairly well, all you really have to worry about are the new sentence structures. It's the sudden influx of kanji that gets horrible. We're supposed to know over 500 kanji by the end of the year, and first year only teaches us the first 220, so it's like KANJI KANJI KANJI KANJI every couple of classes DX
Pffft, it's fine, I enjoy your long comments XDDD I'm a huge epic commenter myself, so it's all good
OH and btw, the way I usually deal with the の particle is by making it the equivalent of the " 's " in English. So like, わたしの is like I + 's = My. Or デパートのうりば is department store + 's + uriba = the department store's sale corner (or, you know, whatever the literal translation is for uriba. I have a bad habit of forgetting the English translation sometimes DX).
Te form is not that bad, actually! Well, my prof last year had like a little song for us, so maybe that's why I remember it easily. Nai form is extremely annoying, though. And dictionary form also sucks. The best part? You need both (and another form) to be able to do casual style! Oh, Japan, how weird and twisted your language is. Have you done the hilarious mouthful type endings yet? Like nakerebanarimasen and shit? XDDD Those aren't hard, it's just hilarious to listen to everyone in class stumble and stutter over them. It took me a while to be able to say that one without going like "Watashi wa shukudai o shi...shinake...re...ba...NARIMASEN!!!". In my class right now we're doing the politer form of ~tekudasai, which is ~teitadakemasenka. It's beautiful how LONG Japanese is XDD
Lol if you ever wanna discuss the wonders of the Japanese language, I'm always happy to chat XDD I'm a huge language geek and can go on forever!
As much as I hate songs, I hope my Jap prof has one for us to because dangit they work!
Omg we definitely haven't gotten to them endings yet. We're having our first test on hiragana and introduction on Tuesday so I'm hoooooooping it'll be a while until we get to those. Funny thing, usually, like, when I'm being a nerd and singing along to the Naruto endings, I don't find the insanely long words that bad, but when it's in class, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, omg it takes forever. XDD
Then again, that could also be due to the fact that in class we're reading hiragana whereas my lovely subtitled openings are in romaji. XDD
I will totally keep you from your studies one day by ranting about Japanese to you. One day, I'll be able to rant about Japanese in actual Japanese. That should be fun. XDDD
I can't wait until I know enough to mumble random phrases to myself. It's bad enough I almost do that with linguistics stuff. XDDD Yay for sounding like a crazy person! XDD
*Kicks the textbooks noming at her legs - and at the ones probably trying to nom on yours* T____________________________T
I hope school plays dead for a while so you can have some fun! <3
Until then, my Doduo icon shall look at you cutely. :3
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And yeah... this year I don't have as many readings as last year, but instead I have three language courses to keep up with -_________- It's been very adhfakdhfakdjhfaksjdhskjdfh this week. But I think I'm getting the hang of it now! XD
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How you can manage three languages, um, yeah, I'm now convinced you're super-human, since there is no way you have time to eat and sleep with that course load. OR YOU HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY AND ARE A SUPER-GENIUS. Okay, you're now that, so I won't feel like such a failure as my four courses are beating me half-way to China. T^T
Scyther is staring at you in awe, really, he is. So much awe he can't even express it properly.
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The kicker is that my prof speaks PERFECT English. She just chooses not to use it ._____.
It slows down in a fashion once you get to second year... I mean, because by then you know your hiragana/katakana/plain form (oh, you're going to have a ball with that one! Japanese is the only language I know where the casual way of speaking is MORE COMPLICATED than the polite one!) and particles fairly well, all you really have to worry about are the new sentence structures. It's the sudden influx of kanji that gets horrible. We're supposed to know over 500 kanji by the end of the year, and first year only teaches us the first 220, so it's like KANJI KANJI KANJI KANJI every couple of classes DX
Pffft, it's fine, I enjoy your long comments XDDD I'm a huge epic commenter myself, so it's all good
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Lol if you ever wanna discuss the wonders of the Japanese language, I'm always happy to chat XDD I'm a huge language geek and can go on forever!
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Omg we definitely haven't gotten to them endings yet. We're having our first test on hiragana and introduction on Tuesday so I'm hoooooooping it'll be a while until we get to those. Funny thing, usually, like, when I'm being a nerd and singing along to the Naruto endings, I don't find the insanely long words that bad, but when it's in class, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, omg it takes forever. XDD
Then again, that could also be due to the fact that in class we're reading hiragana whereas my lovely subtitled openings are in romaji. XDD
I will totally keep you from your studies one day by ranting about Japanese to you. One day, I'll be able to rant about Japanese in actual Japanese. That should be fun. XDDD
I can't wait until I know enough to mumble random phrases to myself. It's bad enough I almost do that with linguistics stuff. XDDD Yay for sounding like a crazy person! XDD
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