gyuujuice Wrote:Just finished 完全マスター文法2級. I skipped over the exersies but I'm going to go back and finish those too. It's so weird -- whenever I came to a point I didn't understand I would leave it and come back and understand it after doing some other points that aren't related. I guess the less puzzle peices the easier it gets.

皆さん、頑張ってください！

Yeah, i noticed the same thing. Maybe getting better at reading the rest of the sentence allows you to figure out the part with new grammar?

I am up to lesson 14 of 27 in Japanese For Everyone - exactly halfway I plan to finish by December 31st . Then Kore, then DO_JG, mining everything. And in the middle of that, I want to take JLPT N3 or 4 next December, and I want to start tutoring Japanese. But I'd better get back to anki now

Studied the whole day today.
Took another N2 mock test (this time the one from July 2010).
Although I got sections where I improved, I also got sections where I got less points than last time. The total percentage is EXACTLY the same as last time: 80%
And if I compare that to a 2kyuu mock test that I took over a year ago (September 2009) where I got over 70%, I can't really see that much improvement *sigh*
Kind of sad :/

My recent achievement?
I got the first prize in a speech contest for foreigners here in Japan.
Still, there's a looooooooooooooooooooooooong way ahead of me.
Just for a little while, can I be happy about that, though?

chochajin Wrote:My recent achievement?
I got the first prize in a speech contest for foreigners here in Japan.
Still, there's a looooooooooooooooooooooooong way ahead of me.
Just for a little while, can I be happy about that, though?

Absolutely!

Congratulations.

I am a Japanese learning English with Anki.
I happened to find this website and am impressed by your hard work.

みなさん、がんばってください。

today:
157 Anki card
20 minutes reading English book

I am getting Pokemon White + a special edition Japanese DSi for CHRISTMAS. BOO-YEAH. (I am a pokemon lover.)

I played a copy from a friend today briefly (through the intro) and was able to understand things about 50% of the time - I got the jist of the whole thing. (Not that it's hard, but whatever. Shh. I'm happy.)

IT WAS AWESOME.

We're ignoring the fact I've played almost every (English) pokemon game known to mankind, so it's feasible at this point that I would know what the intro goes through, but MINOR DETAILS. I AM SO #(*$* (#*$(#* EXCITED.

Also, I picked up my first word from context through it! There was a word I didn't know, but due to what I knew previously, I could guess what it was, and I was RIGHT!

=DDDDD I am oveeeeeer the mooooooooooooooooooon.

IceCream Wrote:i could understand & follow lectures on self agency and neuroscience today, and even asked some questions in japanese at the end!!!

that's really cool how long have you been studying?

Without the fact that it was in Japanese I am impressed. ( n_n)b

For me I saw an add in Mandarin and I understood what was written -- small but fun. :>

I reached my 200,000th card review in my personal anki deck today

17,612 cards (with over 2,400 unique kanji) all put in manually since I started using this program almost two years ago.

julianjalapeno Wrote:I reached my 200,000th card review in my personal anki deck today

17,612 cards (with over 2,400 unique kanji) all put in manually since I started using this program almost two years ago.

おめでとう！

That's an awesome milestone!!! I have 85K reviews to go to get there!

julianjalapeno Wrote:I reached my 200,000th card review in my personal anki deck today

17,612 cards (with over 2,400 unique kanji) all put in manually since I started using this program almost two years ago.

WOW!!!!!!!

IceCream Wrote:i could understand & follow lectures on self agency and neuroscience today, and even asked some questions in japanese at the end!!!

IceCream Wrote:about 1 year & a half...

You should write 2 books: First on how to understand "self agency and neuroscience" lecture and the second about how to do it in Japanese after studying for only 1.5 year.

Seriously... how on earth did you do it? I remember bits and pieces of information about your process: you ditched RTK, went for a record in vocab and watched tons of dramas with and without sub2srs. But what about grammar, sentence comprehension and production, surely you didn't pick up those during your time in Japan right?

Btw at 1.5 year I dream of watching Dragonball or Pokemon and understanding more than half of it

Last night, I was with 2 Japanese friends and one of them bumped into a classmate who was chinese and with the chinese girl there was a Japanese girl who we didn't know. Anyway, while my Japanese friend was talking to the chinese girl, I was just talking to my other friend in Japanese... and the Japanese girl (in all seriousness) asked me if I was from Japan. んな訳ねえだろうと思ったけど、嬉しかった。

She thought I might have been a ハーフ, said I looked 10% Japanese. Wtf? Haha i'm fully kiwi as bro. Musta been my Japanese

IceCream Wrote:i could understand & follow lectures on self agency and neuroscience today, and even asked some questions in japanese at the end!!!

nice achievement. See, it isn't that hard to learn, we just gotta put in the time(cause and effect)

Just passed FF13(japanese) a few days ago.
Feels awesome as in end of January 2010(when I got it). I got around half way into the game and my ps3 broke on me(one of those 1% chance it goes crazy on you). Anyhow I got a new system back October. And I noticed that recognize/reading/understanding the japanese to a good percentage(only a few words stumbled me).

gotta get more games in japanese as it's a good means of staying more immersed in japanese.I think I know how one learns languages fast. You just gotta do stuff in the language as much as possible.

This forum completed the Wulfgar challenge. This is our milestone.

Am now able to understand some simple Qururi songs, namely 'Bus to Finsbury' and 'Akai Densha'.

I'm a big fan, so this makes me so so very

ta12121 Wrote:I think I know how one learns languages fast. You just gotta do stuff in the language as much as possible.

Same conclusion, 9 months in now. This concept trumps all.

Cranks Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:I think I know how one learns languages fast. You just gotta do stuff in the language as much as possible.

Same conclusion, 9 months in now. This concept trumps all.

Definitely does.

My goal is to get more j-games for my ps3=more time to get immersed while playing games. My whole computer is in japanese, the games I play are in japanese, music,shows,etc are all in japanese. Srs of choice(anki) is in japanese. Now that I think about it, it all comes down to keep getting enough contact within the language to keep learning more.

I watched my first Korean drama (Kim Soo Ro, 32 episodes, it's about this guy who hatches out of an egg and becomes king or something) and it did a lot for my listening comprehension.

..but now I feel guilty whenever I watch something in Japanese. Life is cruel orz

I got pokemon Black (YAY) and can understand 50% + in some places (varies from none to all), and am randomly mining vocab from it cuz it's fun.

I've also started playing my kanji game and learning readings. It's fun, but sooo stressful sometimes. Stupid kanji with a bajillion readings...

Just hit the 500 mark in RTK today!

my sister bought a copy of "saints young men" on her way through narita the other day and i managed to get through the first few pages

Just reached the big 10,000th sentence mark! Now I plan to take a nice big break from adding sentences

nohika Wrote:I got pokemon Black (YAY) and can understand 50% + in some places (varies from none to all), and am randomly mining vocab from it cuz it's fun.

Ditto.. wish the Kanji had furigana tho.. I'm stuck with Hiragana because of that. I can follow lots of it, but there's always a few bits that totally stump me.

Milestone.. I don't think I've achieved anything of huge note. My speaking still sucks. but compared to even 6 months ago I can hold long conversations in Japanese only in type. Which i guess is something.