I passed

[kitsukitty]

the Japanese exam with a "befriedigend". (C? in english) Phew, that was close. I admit I almost thought I wouldn't pass. But I also don't like that I only got a C. So if I stay here (near the JKI) I'm not sure if I will attend course 5 or repeat course 4. It's getting harder and I'm not getting better if I don't keep up, it's getting worse. But I

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[karu_chan]

Omedetou!
(I'm not sure how your university counts the credits, but maybe one 3/C among better grades won't matter that much? At least you passed. And later one people will only check your final results and not the grade of one specific class)

I totally understand your troubles with grammar though. Somehow this seems to be the hardest to learn. Apart from keigo.......
Your plan to study all the kanji in advance sounds quite good to me.

Seigi no Mikata = ♥ (and I loved all the frogs she had in her room ^^;;)
Why, oh why, do dorama DVDs have to be that expensive. I once found Nobuta for 10.000 in some Book Off in Tokyo, but that's already used... New ones are outrageously overpriced -.-

[kitsukitty]

I love the whole family relationship in Seigi no Mikata. Poor Kumako and her torment....haha. She had frogs in her room? Need to rewatch. (Just searching for excuses to rewatch, haha)

Ah, I don't study japanese at university, I'm not a student anymore. I study at JKI (http://www.jki.de/) . It's all done by choice, nobody's forcing me. ;) And it is divided like semesters, you have to pass a test at the end of the course to continue to the next course.

[karu_chan]

Ah, I see. I wish we'd have something similar here in Bremen. but there is only VHS and I doubt that would be a challenge, but I might try...

Still, that course is better than no class at all, because even if you are doing it for yourself, you still want to pass the exam, so there is some slight pressure. Which is more then I have, with no class ^^;;;;;;;

[kitsukitty]

I'm really thankful that we have the JKI, because the courses are high level and if I would have to do it on my own I couldn't motivate myself at all, thus never advance to a higher level. It is much better than VHS for sure, it is much more of a challenge and it is not as slow as VHS courses are.

[solidark]

Yes, I fully agree regarding the Anita Blake books. I don't mind 'porny' parts in novels but this is getting ridiculous. It's not only the porn, it's also the constant power-upgrades she gets. It feels like Dragonball or Bleach or something, just with shapeshifters and vampires and lots of sex x_X. However, the Merry Gentry books are still sort of my super-sekrit guilty pleasures. But the difference is that they didn't really start as supernatural thrillers in the first place and never pretended to be anything else but, um, fairy-porn? ^^;;

Right now I'm reading Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr. I could have finished it already months ago but it's just so good that I kind of don't want it to end yet. Though I should. I have tons to read after all (and no time ;_;).

[kitsukitty]

I have nothing against the pron. Thing is, it is getting boring after a while. The crime thing was really interesting in the beginning. And the sexual tension - when there was no sex yet - was a thousand times better than with that ardeur and all that stuff. Pages and pages of description how gorgeous everyone looks. And Anita became a superwoman without faults. She is too powerful now and everybody loves her/ wants to get laid with her. It's enough. Either take away some of her power or end the series for real, LKH. You're right with Merry Gentry. That series never changed like this, maybe also because it was started at a later point. Did you read all of AB or what was the last book for you?

[solidark]

The last book I really read was Cerulean Sins. I only skimmed through Incubus Dreams and didn't touch the others. There is so much good stuff out there, books that are much better, so I won't waste my time with these. Maybe one day we'll get a surprise and she concentrates on the crime again? I don't think so either but stranger things have happened...

[kitsukitty]

Oh then you didn't even get to the parts where it get's really awful. I still kind of liked Cerulean Sins, in a way. But after that. Ew. I wonder if I should buy the later books. For 5 $ it won't really hurt me that much. Got to think about it.