Okayyy…..decided to actually post today.
I have double the trouble but the days did not get longer ~ I still just have 24hrs which is a little upsetting to be honest, you’d think someone would have mercy and grant me just an extra 5 hours to study Japanese and yes you read that correct, I’ve started to study Japanese, its so exciting …I love it (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
If you follow me on either Instagram and Facebook then you probably knew this ♡o｡.(✿ฺ｡ ✿ฺ) and you probably know how ugly my writing is too! It’s improving forrealz! I expect it to be slow progressing like with my 한글 to begin with.
But that progression is what I love soooooooo much that its not something I’m sad about (･ｪ-)
#recap if you didn’t see it on Instagram and Facebook （⌒▽⌒）
But due to my current craze which is Japanese I haven’t been able to look at my yummy new Korean books ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´(00)`ﾟ)ﾟ｡ they look so good! omg, the one is really hard and I am still on page 7 (its been a week now + I think) but its fun and I’m not rushing anything.
Second one. How do I explain this without exposing how cuckoo book cray cray I am? （・∀・）so its like fun + learning + pretty pictures = I don’t wanna put it down, but the thought of forgetting all the Hiragana and Katakana I am learning is a formidable thought so I put it down and just focused on Japanese.
I will go back to Korean in about a week or two : when I have confidence in my Japanese alphabet. Don’t get me started on those Kanjis’ , I looked at them, I took a peek in the middle of the book and …these are my general feelings about them : (✖╭╮✖) !!!!!
Forreal. I have no background in Chinese so its very intimidating for me. I guess someone with a Chinese character background would see this less as [Holy shizz this is scary and I am going to DIE] and probably more like [Hey. I know at least one of the alphabets] ~ so on those Kanji things you have to know I am in a little bit of a scary situation, luckily though in the textbook I’m using for my Japanese learning it doesn’t require to use Kanji actively, its there but you don’t have to actually know it.
It said so in the preface. And I will listen. To spare myself a mental breakdown. haha.
I mean have you seen those things? They could induce a coma in a newbie (moi) to be precise!
What I want to do today and the rest of the weekend! A to-do list …that I get done or else (✖╭╮✖)
- review learnt Hiragana * Katakana
- Find a better theme for blog
- look for an easy Japanese reading book so I have material to progress to.
- jdrama. I need to find one, the one I’ve ever seen is 1 Litre of Tears and that was in 2010 or something I think long time ago.
That’s it x.x
Probably more later, when I realize there is something else, but for now this is it x
^^ I likes learning Kanji, I always thought Kanji looks so nice, so I never was scared of them. Anyway a good way to learn them passively is to learn them right, when you learn vocabulary. I do it this way front side of flash card with Kanji back side Hiragana and meaning. But maybe in the beginning this is a little bit scary, so maybe you can write Hiragana on the front site. I think this helps too, because you see the kanji with that word always then. I even learn Korean with the Hanja, because I can easier remember the Korean words, when I know, which Hanja was used for it. (But there I just put Hanja on the back side.)
I wonder how it feels for you learning Japanese then, with your Korean knowledge yet. I did the other way first Japanese then Korean, and Korean grammar felt kinda easy then and I found many similar concepts. (I’m still a beginner with Korean and with Japanese on intermediate level.)
It looks so fascinating but it does seem hard. Thanks for the tips on how to learn them, I will deff input them into my learning strategy ( 😉 )
It feels harder I think, Korean is so much more structured compared to Japanese, so intimidating but I am not viewing it as scary anymore, its fun, oh are they similar? I haven’t gotten to japanese grammar yet 🙁 hehe. Good luck with your Korean! And thanks for commenting xD
Yes, sentence structure is same and many grammar points are similar. I think you will see many Stuff which you think, ah this is the same like in Korean.
Oh Korean scared me at the begin also a little bit, it felt more chaotic to me. But I think it was just, when I tried Korean in a course, that the teacher was too fast for me, introducing lot of grammar points every time. Later after a while, I took out the same books I had then, and which I didn’t understand then, and felt like, oh it is not that difficult actually.
Oh! Wow.. That makes me a little more at ease about grammar and stuff like it.
I can see why, I barely know Japanese but there is more organization with Japanese (even Hiragana is orderly) which I totally love, but I’m glad you didn’t just give up with a bad teacher, glad you tried it again :3 that’s so cool. 🙂
^^ I had already the experience with French, that a good teacher or book is everything. I could no French at all after having it in school, even if it was two years more than English. I decided later trying French again, but had also some stupid books there, but also some goods. There I already realized, not every teaching material is good or maybe matching to me.
Anyway, about Korean, I just had the urge, to try it again. I was so happy reading Japanese stuff, I wanted to be able to read books in more languages.