Hello people.
I haven't written anything here the past weeks, why, oh why? Ever since I have Geography of Japan and Geography of China I have no time to spend here, I rather spend it doing other stuff. The past 4 weeks I have been having interim tests. Check the results:
Japanese
Written test: 19.5/20
Oral/auditive tests: 18.5/20
Both results were the best in my class.
Geography of Japan: 17.3
Geograpgy of China: 14.4
I don't have interim tests for chinese, for some reason I'm yet to understand.
My classes finish on June 18th, and I can't wait. Just to think that I will still have the final tests of those 3 subjects...Gography of Japan and of China has so much stuff to study, for example, in Geography of China we have to study all the provinces, their abreviations and capitals, in hanzi. The caractheristics of wach region, some history, some random stuff and ECONOMY. For Japan it's easier, we have to know all the prefectures and their features.
Due to Geography my time is very limited to study both Chinese and Japanese, that should not happen since my course is a chinese major, so we should be studying much more chinese. And my course's director (a chinese) is not very happy with one of my japanese teachers because of that (the one that also teaches both geographies). Hell! We even have to know stuff about agriculture, oil fields, plains etc etc!
Well, last summer was spent on Remembering the Kanji. This summer will be spent on the Genki series and sentences. Just like last year, my morning will be spent working out, and my afternoons on japanese, using Genki and Minna no Nihongo (mostly Genki). In the evening I will workout too. During the night I'll mine sentences.
I'm really sad to say that during college I am not able to study japanese as I wished.
This course sucks. I'm not studying chinese as I wanted, nor Japanese. The chinese teaching methods are awful too (dictations, which we memorize, for a few days and then forget, mostly), we have no exercises to practice, etc. Japanese is great, but slow. I'm kin of happy with that because I prefer to study alone, but I'm aware that my japanese will skyrocket this summer, so it's a bit boring to learn what you already know. But at least you get solid at that. My japanese class has helped me a lot, speacilly with verbs, how to make the -て forms of some verbs.
Hopefully I'll update this more frequently.
