I actually took a semester long course this year and it was really fun! There a still quite a lot of lessons in the book that we haven’t done yet, so I’m going to try and self learn more through that. I’ve also got the book “Remembering the Kanji” ordered and hopefully I can learn the kanji quickly as well. I’ve downloaded the sample and it was really helpful. I can say I have retained the kanji that I have learned so far because of all the stories that go along with each character. It actually makes it pretty fun to learn, when before I was very intimidated about learning the characters.
Seriously, everyone I highly recommend that book! It makes learning even 30 kanji a day pretty easy, as long as you keep reviewing them. Though I’m delaying my learning for now until I finished university for the year. But I guess I’ve got the 90 I learned ingrained in my head.
I’ve also been using the website smart.fm to help me learn more vocabulary. I hope that eventually I will be able to read a children’s book at least! XD
Oct 29, 05:17AM PDT | 0 comments
I’ve read the recent entry about this goal and I think I had the same problem. I was surrounded by other people who also complained a lot, so once I said something about solving the problem instead of complaining but that suggestion was immediately swapped for another complaint. Suppose complaining is a way to direct the blame on anything but yourself kinda thing?
I don’t know if I can do this entirely – its just one of those things that people all do without even knowing sometimes. So I will try to “stop complaining so much”
Then I realise that a lot of conversations especially at work and school start from complaining…
“Argh, this homework sucks!”
or
“Man, I can’t stand this horrible weather!”
May 18, 2008, 04:59AM PDT | 0 comments
I wish I could fill a book up with thoughts alone but I’m not so sure – I STILL keep trying to censor myself from things I don’t want to be caught thinking – even though I suppose lots of other people around the world do this too. What I DO do, is write down the more obvious thoughts that don’t seem to too hard to grasp if I said it out loud.
May 18, 2008, 04:50AM PDT | 3 cheers | 1 comment
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