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  Wednesday and Thursday Japanese homework

  11.11.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve been keeping up with my Gradint podcast, even without having the bus journey each day, by playing Grand Theft Auto III while listening.  I usually do Ambulance missions, trying to get the mythical Level 12 (you rescue groups of patients, 1 at level 1, then 2 at level 2, and so on, up to [...]

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  Today’s Japanese homework

  11.09.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Forgot to specify the date, one of the things we’re supposed to do. So:  Today is Tuesday, the 8th of November 2011. Kyou wa kayoubi, ni sen jyuu ichi nen jyuu ichi gatsu youka desu. きょう　は　かようび、　に　せん　じゅう　いち　ねん　じゅう　いち　がつ　ようか　です。 今日は火曜日、二千十一年十一月八日です。 Actually, it would be written more: 今日は火曜日、２０１１年１１月８日です。 I walked to the shop at 2pm. Watashi wa gogo niji ni [...]

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  Japanese homework.

  11.08.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I have been taking Japanese classes through the Learning Works programme at Glasgow Uni.  This week, the homework was to construct two diary-like sentences, to practice using verbs.   They should be done in rōmaji and Hiragana. Given that I’m actually off this week, I’m going to see if I can do this every day [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing ? Immersion and Talking to People

  06.06.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Immersion Listen more. Watch more. Read more (or any!). There’s a lot of resources out there – free audiobooks, podcasts, comics, books, websites, YouTube videos… Really no excuse! The “Read Real Japanese” book comes in here, too. I doubt I’ll ever go the whole All Japanese All The Time “turn your computer’s language to Japanese, [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing – Vocabulary and Grammar

  06.05.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Vocabulary and Grammar The main thing to do is continue with Gradint. I’ve been thinking about perhaps expanding my Gradint listening to two half-hour podcasts a day, calling the second one “Gradint Nights” for my journey home. That way, instead of learning five words or phrases per day, I could learn ten. If I make [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing – Kanji and Kana

  06.04.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I Could Be Doing A braver person would label this section “What I will do”, but I’m not, so there! So basically this will be a place for me to put down some thoughts about what I could, should, and maybe will be doing in the future. Kanji and Kana Continue with the RTK [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I am doing

  06.03.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I am doing These are my ongoing Japanese learning actions.? Nice short section so everything all at once… Kanji I use Anki daily – more specifically, I use the iPhone app on my iPod touch. It’s really handy, especially as my daily commute has specific “dead” times – waiting for the bus, travelling on [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Immersion

  06.02.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Immersion Japanese learning sites put a lot of emphasis on “immersion” – listening to as much Japanese throughout your day as possible. Although at the start you won’t understand much (if at all), the idea is that you will “tune” your ear to the language, getting an idea of how people actually speak Japanese, the [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Vocabulary and Grammar

  06.01.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Vocabulary and Grammar I suppose I should count the Japanese classes I took a year ago (nearly 18 months ago, now). There is some debate over whether taking formal classes is good or not, but as said previously, I definitely think that neglecting my Kanji study for the vocabulary and grammar I leaned in the [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Kanji and Kana

  05.31.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  First post in my “State of the Education Address”, where I talk about where I am in my Japanese studies, and what the future might hold.

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