Wednesday, June 16, 2010
夏休みは未だ！
やった！夏休みは来週の月曜日に始める！ １２月に日本語能力試験をしたいから、たくさん勉強しなくちゃいけませんわよ！ 私が勉強する本はげんきと皆の日本語だわ。 来週は私の勉強も始める。日本語能力試験の単語のリストーをしている。 未だ終わらない。でも日本語能力試験５級のは終わった。
Sunday, June 13, 2010
New cat, JLPT and so much more...
Hey there! I have no time to come here (I have, but I always end up forgetting it. Or I'm just too lazy, portuguese style).
I want to give you some news.
1)
I have a new cat. Later I'll post her pics (after the 21st, when I have my last test and school is already over). Her name is Saki. I couldn't come up with anything more, shame on me. If you have suggestions, please. She's a baby, she is really cute and funny. I don't know if you know this kind, but she's a Tortoiseshell cat. Black, white and honey colored.
05/June/2010, Saturday -> the day I adopted this cat :)
2)
Also, I'm gonna register for JLPT. Still don't know the level (probably 4...?), but I intend to finish Minna no Nihongo 1 and 2 and Genki 1 and 2 in these vacations. JUst like last year, but now is Grammar and vocab instead of Kanji. And once again, during the morning I will work out and from 2/3 PM until I go to sleep (or 1 or 2 hourd before falling asleep) I will study Grammar and vocab. During the night I intend to SRS Anki. I'm using sentences that I understand with vocabulary from the JLPT 3 & 4. I haven't started for real yet but shall do it starting day 22. The day after my Geography of China final test (oh my, I have still so much to study!...).
SRS is great as I said it before, last friday I managed to learn 2 new words in this sentence: 彼は石を池に投げた。 Very, very interesting. I SRSed it 2 or 3 times.
I'm really looking forward to day 22.
3)
In these vacations I also want to study chinese (otherwise will forget a lot). Chinese I will study from textbooks (Integrated Chinese 1 & 2). I will just SRS when I go to the masters or even after. 1 or 2 days a week for 1 or 2 hours (or as long as I want) I willstudy grammar and vocabulary (something my course sucks, lol). This because I also like chinese and doing the HSK is mandatory on my course to do the masters. Last week we made a sample of the HSK2 and it was really easy. I couln't believe it! And yet made that really easilyI know almost no chinese at all (I'm one of the best of my class, but still think that this course is a waste of time, because they are terrible teachers - some of the chinese language teachers) and because if I learned at home it's much faster and I would actually understand the grammar. My book has almost no grammar explanations, nor grammar patterns, we still haven't learn how to use "bie"!!!
The time I had to devote in this course for geography subjects was really a waste of time in my opinion. Instead I could have studied the languages. I'm gonna end up forgetting almost everything I learned so...and next year I will history with the same teacher (a japanese) so I can predict that it will be even worse...
4)
I'm thinking of buying a netbook for japanese learning purposes (AKA Anki, and to use my study pen drive) and internet only. And because to take out my big, fat and heavy portable computer (hm, how do you call it?) of my trolley and to to hold it in the traing can be quite difficult sometimes. But I still don't know, I will wait for my birthday or christmas so that new models come out and prices drop.
5)
I have been playing more nintendo DS lately, in english, Pokémon Soul Silver mostly. And bought The legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass for only 6.90€! I intend to finish it during the summer vacations. I would also like to play GTA Chinatown Wars, I have it and restarted it yeasterday. It's sooooo great!
I will soon post pics of several stuff. My cat, HTC Hero, my study place...
Do you like the new look?
I want to give you some news.
1)
I have a new cat. Later I'll post her pics (after the 21st, when I have my last test and school is already over). Her name is Saki. I couldn't come up with anything more, shame on me. If you have suggestions, please. She's a baby, she is really cute and funny. I don't know if you know this kind, but she's a Tortoiseshell cat. Black, white and honey colored.
05/June/2010, Saturday -> the day I adopted this cat :)
2)
Also, I'm gonna register for JLPT. Still don't know the level (probably 4...?), but I intend to finish Minna no Nihongo 1 and 2 and Genki 1 and 2 in these vacations. JUst like last year, but now is Grammar and vocab instead of Kanji. And once again, during the morning I will work out and from 2/3 PM until I go to sleep (or 1 or 2 hourd before falling asleep) I will study Grammar and vocab. During the night I intend to SRS Anki. I'm using sentences that I understand with vocabulary from the JLPT 3 & 4. I haven't started for real yet but shall do it starting day 22. The day after my Geography of China final test (oh my, I have still so much to study!...).
SRS is great as I said it before, last friday I managed to learn 2 new words in this sentence: 彼は石を池に投げた。 Very, very interesting. I SRSed it 2 or 3 times.
I'm really looking forward to day 22.
3)
In these vacations I also want to study chinese (otherwise will forget a lot). Chinese I will study from textbooks (Integrated Chinese 1 & 2). I will just SRS when I go to the masters or even after. 1 or 2 days a week for 1 or 2 hours (or as long as I want) I willstudy grammar and vocabulary (something my course sucks, lol). This because I also like chinese and doing the HSK is mandatory on my course to do the masters. Last week we made a sample of the HSK2 and it was really easy. I couln't believe it! And yet made that really easilyI know almost no chinese at all (I'm one of the best of my class, but still think that this course is a waste of time, because they are terrible teachers - some of the chinese language teachers) and because if I learned at home it's much faster and I would actually understand the grammar. My book has almost no grammar explanations, nor grammar patterns, we still haven't learn how to use "bie"!!!
The time I had to devote in this course for geography subjects was really a waste of time in my opinion. Instead I could have studied the languages. I'm gonna end up forgetting almost everything I learned so...and next year I will history with the same teacher (a japanese) so I can predict that it will be even worse...
4)
I'm thinking of buying a netbook for japanese learning purposes (AKA Anki, and to use my study pen drive) and internet only. And because to take out my big, fat and heavy portable computer (hm, how do you call it?) of my trolley and to to hold it in the traing can be quite difficult sometimes. But I still don't know, I will wait for my birthday or christmas so that new models come out and prices drop.
5)
I have been playing more nintendo DS lately, in english, Pokémon Soul Silver mostly. And bought The legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass for only 6.90€! I intend to finish it during the summer vacations. I would also like to play GTA Chinatown Wars, I have it and restarted it yeasterday. It's sooooo great!
I will soon post pics of several stuff. My cat, HTC Hero, my study place...
Do you like the new look?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
とても疲れています・・・
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.
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.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Forgot about the blog!
I forgot I had one...I promised I'd come here everyday but I'm not doing that obviously. I'm sorry.
School started. In my very first class of japanese of this semester I had a review test.
Today I had my first class of geography of China and Japan.
I shall write more this week. I have no time! I have to study a lot of geography, in Japanese and in Chinese!
School started. In my very first class of japanese of this semester I had a review test.
Today I had my first class of geography of China and Japan.
I shall write more this week. I have no time! I have to study a lot of geography, in Japanese and in Chinese!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
And the winner is...
...HTC Hero!
I finally bought an android phone! I was aiming for the Motorola Droid (the best one so far) but I had to buy it online, its price was 470€, ok, it's better than the Hero, but I want an android mostly for Ankidroid, and the Hero so far at least is more than enought.
I already downloaded Ankidroid (!) and already put some decks there, haha. It's awesome. Tomorrow I'll go to a shopping and will download a few more apps like dictionaries and games.
I shall take a pic of the phone soon. I love to post pics, I'm just too lazy to upload it.
I finally bought an android phone! I was aiming for the Motorola Droid (the best one so far) but I had to buy it online, its price was 470€, ok, it's better than the Hero, but I want an android mostly for Ankidroid, and the Hero so far at least is more than enought.
I already downloaded Ankidroid (!) and already put some decks there, haha. It's awesome. Tomorrow I'll go to a shopping and will download a few more apps like dictionaries and games.
I shall take a pic of the phone soon. I love to post pics, I'm just too lazy to upload it.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Hiatus
I'm sorry for that.
I've been not having will to study (though sometimes I study). I have to.
The past week I've been doing some research on what android phone to buy, HTC Hero or LG GW620. HTC Hero is better, but it doesn't have a physical keyboard. I still don't know which to get... |:
Well, after this post I'll study japanese for a while (till "Ídolos" finish).
Tomorrow I might make a post on what I want to put on my SRS, and other stuff related.
I've been not having will to study (though sometimes I study). I have to.
The past week I've been doing some research on what android phone to buy, HTC Hero or LG GW620. HTC Hero is better, but it doesn't have a physical keyboard. I still don't know which to get... |:
Well, after this post I'll study japanese for a while (till "Ídolos" finish).
Tomorrow I might make a post on what I want to put on my SRS, and other stuff related.
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