Some news

First of all, let me explain why I did not post in the past few days.

The past week and the current week (till today, yay) I was full of tests. My head could't even handle to study a lot because it'd made me headaches.

The previous week I had:

-Japanese Written test (got 18.6)
-Japanese Oral Test
-Chinese fill-in-the-blanks test (got 20 and received a previous dictation, 19.5)
-Chinese fill-in-the-blanks test

This week I had:

-History test (yesterday)
-Chinese culture test (made it today, and got the previous test with some crappy 10.5)
-Chinese oral test (today, my grade was 16...only...)

Now I'm on vacations! For a whole month! I think classes start on February 22.
I intend to study a lot, A LOT, everyday, EVERYDAY. Today I won't because already studied for 2 subjects today, but I will continue with sentences (well, that's study :P), I have 100 sentences that I could not afford to study the past few days. I know I added quite a few with phoenix Wright vocabulary, but so far I'll take care of those 100. After they're finished (and I will not finished them all today) then yeah, I'll start addingnew ones again. Oh, though I had all these test, I kept up with RTK's deck.

Oh, my final japanese grade is 19 (out of 20, of course).

Applying the sentence method to chinese too?

Well, I've been reviewing sentences for less than a week, so far I think I have no results, 1: due to already having some knowledge of japanese, 2: because I'm still beggining it. What I can say is that I'm able to read a few more words. I will stop adding sentences for one week, I'll have japanese tests and have to study through the book (...hum, ...though I might put the sentences on Anki too...!).

I forget chinese vocabulary fast, though when I'm in class I can sometimes remember o.o the tones, like that, from nothing, the teachers asks how to read and I pop out and say it. Well, I'll have 1 month vacations (end of semester), by that time I intend to get MUCH better at chinese and japanese, not like in the past 3 weeks where I learned zero. I have to study everyday (and at least through Anki I0ll be obliged to it haha).

Today I had a chinese dictation (with previous study) and tomorrow I'll have another, so I have to study it today. I only will learn one new sentence per day because my japanese big test is in the next tuesday (written) and Friday (not tomorrow, oral/auditive).

I really hope the "sentence method" works....

Despite being using it alongside with 2 other books :], and it's curious, in these 3 sources, I'm learning exactly the same thing at the same time. Though I already know it (から).
How do I know it works? Is there any thread talking about that in RevTK's forum? I'm sure there is...

As for Tae Kim's sentences, I'm now here. Still haven't started those. I added quite a few today, already read the grammar in a few days they shall appear on Anki.

And I should had started this a long time ago, it's so cool to learn new and interesting vocabulary, for example, with anki I was able to memorize a few words, that are quite, let's say, interesting, as I said earlier, 刑事、警察、銃、裁判 :]
I like soccer...it might be cool to learn a few words for that =D (I still have to make a list of the stuff I want to learn).

I'm thinking about applying to mandarin chinese, but...there are so many more characters...and sounds...that I think I rather stay with textbooks and school (I downloaded "Integrated Chinese" because my grammar basis learned in my course is almost none).

By the way, my DS One i arrived today! I'm not at home (I'm in the city of my university, 2 hours way from my city) so I still won't be able to use it till Friday. And probably won't till the end of the next week (when I'm again on vacations, due to being the end of the first semester).
I already downloaded "gyakuten 裁判"!! =DDDD

I can't wait to have my powerball too! Today I re-started working out again. It felt good, tomorrow I'll be full of pain, lol.

Goodbye my friend :(

Goodbye dear friend Tucha...
Shall you Rest In Peace. You will be remembered as the smartest dog I've ever met.



She died this morning, 04/January/2010. RIP.

Tae Kim's and not only...!

Post 200.

Yes! I have added about 35 sentences yesterday, from Tae Kim's and from Denshi Jisho's example sentences (because I want to increase my vocabulary).
I'm not sure how many sentences I should add,and learn per day. The number I defined to "Learn new" a day is 20, but I think I'll add a few more than that, as soon as my rythm increases and dayly routine gets back to normal (live away from my town, alone during the week).

This post is so empty, but I honestly don't know what to write more...I'll edit this later, after reviewing the sentences.

I lost Tae Kim deck!

Today I had it, at luch it desappeared. I got so mad! It had given me so much confidence! I shall not worry though, you see, yesterday I was thinking that I should do the deck by myself because that would meke me read the grammar with attention, well, now I really have to do that.

Anki, don't know how, was able to download the deck a few days ago, today tried to download it agian and it wasn't possible. Dass! (You should read "duhss", lol).

I'll start doing that then. Damn it!

Happy new year!

新年快乐！
I was going to write it in japanese, but I don't know how... -_ -

So, new year's goals...

-Study MUCH MORE JAPANESE (sentences, textbook, listening, videogames, TV!!!!)
-Study MUCH MORE CHINESE (through textbooks, TV, listening...and maybe, just maybe, sentences)
-Get fit and confident
-Have good grades (If I'm one of the best 2 - already am! - I might go to China during Summer)
-Play more videogames (the ones I already own, which are a lot...I ould post a pic!)
-Dad getting a job

And I think that's it...


By the way! As you already know, I started srsing Tae Kim's. So far it's easy, 25 a day (2 days so far...:P), but it was already worth it. I learned a few new words, which I already don't remember, but hopefully will through the time.
I don't really know how Tae Kim's will work for me, let's see. I'll do some research on this.