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

I just reached 2.500 |:

Though I intend on adding all the 3 kyuu vocab into anki in the next 4 weeks (I'm in こ right now).


I've been listening to tokyo local podcasts and in the past 2/3 weeks I've become able to understand a lot of what they are saying. I think I got used to listening to japanese. Many thanks to 浜崎あゆみ for that. Thanks to her music and her Ayu Ready show (2002-2004) that my japanese listening skills improved

It's so cool to understand what she's singing.


I so love japanese <3　本当に中毒になってきた。

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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.

Me too...but I've used the IME to write some words, and I'm comfortable with the vocab I /don't/ know and just focus on what I do.

The one thing I dislike/find frustrating in Black is the kanji version, ironically. As someone pointed out, you can find something in hiragana one page and then kanji the next three, and vice versa. The most annoying thing is the attack/special attack/speed, etc. It's in hiragana everywhere but battle. Grr.

But I love it anyways, and play it in kanji because I'll learn it eventually. Plus hiragana hurts.

nohika Wrote:As someone pointed out, you can find something in hiragana one page and then kanji the next three, and vice versa.

Hehe. I've seen this while reading, but I don't really pay attention to it anymore. It all just means the same thing anyway. (I think that's why it ends up like that.)

See if you can find an excerpt of the script; it ought to be floating around on the web somewhere. I did that for FF7 and it helped a ton. Rikaichan FTW!

astendra Wrote:

nohika Wrote:As someone pointed out, you can find something in hiragana one page and then kanji the next three, and vice versa.

Hehe. I've seen this while reading, but I don't really pay attention to it anymore. It all just means the same thing anyway. (I think that's why it ends up like that.)

See if you can find an excerpt of the script; it ought to be floating around on the web somewhere. I did that for FF7 and it helped a ton. Rikaichan FTW!

My native Japanese friend (has the same game) says the same thing. xD I only notice it because I don't understand the kanji as much.

I've been searching for the stupid script, but I haven't been able to find it...I'll give it another try tomorrow.

This is kind of awkwardly sorted, and I'm not sure whether it's complete since I don't have the game, but here you go:
http://ameblo.jp/pokesites/theme-10027965876.html

Hey astendra do you mind posting the link to where you got the FF7 script from if you still remember it?

I'm playing through it now, just left golden saucer, gotta love the buggy. I've been looking for a dump of the text for a while but no luck.

Kuma777 Wrote:Hey astendra do you mind posting the link to where you got the FF7 script from if you still remember it?

I'm playing through it now, just left golden saucer, gotta love the buggy. I've been looking for a dump of the text for a while but no luck.

The site I would usually use for FF7-related scripts seems to be down, but this one's pretty good too:

http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/ffstory/ff/index.html

It's not a straight text dump, however, if that's what you're looking for. The site author adds a lot of stuff to the scripts to describe what's going on in each scene, and I don't know if it covers sidequests or not. The actual dialog should be right, though.

Actually, the site I used seems to have been suspended. You're in luck, though - AJATT saves the day. Khatz has archived it all. I guess even he does sensible things sometimes.

astendra Wrote:This is kind of awkwardly sorted, and I'm not sure whether it's complete since I don't have the game, but here you go:
http://ameblo.jp/pokesites/theme-10027965876.html

Thanks! I'll bookmark it and start browsing.

"Ditto.. wish the Kanji had furigana"
It took me a while to get the pun. XD

Last night I read up to「空き●部屋国の衣装ダンス町」. :3 I got ナルニア国物語七冊 for Christmas. This is my first step into books for Japanese people isntead of books for people studying Japanese. Though all the books I got are written veritcally and it really slows me down. (And I'm not that bad reading vertically. :O)

I found it funny they use プリン instead of turkish delight.

gyuujuice Wrote:"Ditto.. wish the Kanji had furigana"
It took me a while to get the pun. XD

Last night I read up to「空き●部屋国の衣装ダンス町」. :3 I got ナルニア国物語七冊 for Christmas. This is my first step into books for Japanese people isntead of books for people studying Japanese. Though all the books I got are written veritcally and it really slows me down. (And I'm not that bad reading vertically. :O)

I found it funny they use プリン instead of turkish delight.

One of my Japanese friends got me a novel (romance...go figure) for Christmas...and I'm somewhat tempted to work through RTK just due to that - it'd be easier to look up the words. (I've not done RTK yet, and currently am not 100% planning on it).

Most of the stuff I have (except for the novel and Black) has furigana, but I know if I want to get more "worldliness" I need to learn the kanji and learn them well. I've been using Nazotte oboeru otona no kanji renshuu kanzenban. Oh! And I've modified my vocab deck - as I go through Nazotte and practice/pass the kanji, I go through my vocab deck (core 6k) and "unsuspending" compounds/words that have that kanji.

Gah. Japanese is so hard...so frustrating, too.

Thanks Mcjon01 and astendra for the links. There exactly what I was looking for

Have a good new year!

Reached 13K vocab!

It's really dawning on me how seriously insane people are for wanting to start learning a language in the first place. Having to cram 30K words into your head is not a simple feat.

Still, getting there, slowly but surely!

I finished reading キノの旅 second chapter without using the dictionary (I used it for the first chapter). For those of you considering doing something like this: it's much easier than you think, I regret not doing it sooner.

I am able to write short posts on lang 8, and wrote my first long 日記 (dunno how it's called in english..diary?) post.

Reached 10000 mature cards in my Japanese vocab deck

(EDIT: Reached 100 posts in RTK Forum!)

Finally after finishing RTK at the end of November, I've gotten the reviews down enough that I can start with Core2k/6k. I lapsed during the holidays, getting up to 400-ish reviews piled up, but they were dealt with once I finally decided to do so. RTK reviews seem to be fairly constant at 40ish per day, but that's only two sessions or so, and I do multiple during the work day.

I've switched from iAnki to AnkiMobile for my SRS needs, as iAnki doesn't do audio, and the Core deck I have is all about the audio!

Just passed 1000 words in my vocab deck. Doesn't sound like much compared to some on here, but learning in default core 2000 order means I now know the 1000 most frequent words, and can now understand simple song lyrics and kids books.

Really feel I can become fluent now, but it's going to take a while..

I'm starting to feel that I want to learn Japanese again. It's a start . now time to see what area I want to go for this time b/c Ive been inputting for about a year... m/b it's time to step out into the scary world of output .

Yay!

I am days away from having all of the Kanji entered on the site here!
This is my second runthrough and making sure I don't fail at keeping up this time so I've taken it slower.

I have over 1,000 cards in the 4+ pile ( 1903 kanji entered overall )

I am a page and a half from seeding to start a new notebook for my kanji quizzing! I love having books filled with my writing ( even if some is random characters from learning nad quizzing )

Next few days I should be hitting 10k reviews on the site here too ( this go around anyways )


Soon back to REAL Japanese, haha

I just finished lesson 23! Gonna chow on some noodles and get to 800, after that I think I'll sleep for 12 hours. =P

I know it's a controversial thing to say... but lately I feel I can say I'm fluent in Japanese and mean it.

I cant speak as eloquently as natives do of course but over the last 3 days It's been Japanese non-stop for 8+ hours a day of solid conversation and It's been no problem. Just feel like I've really reached a level where I can say I have a certain level of conversational fluency in Japanese. Still a ways to go til I can out-do a native! Though, It feels good to have 2.5 years worth of hard work feel like it's really, really, really payed off/paying off.

I just don't get it how you guys make such an amazing progress, I am very happy for all of you I really am but I feel like my studies are so slow. I can read but I mostly don't understand WHAT I read beyond a few words, if I do a complete immersion I will go insane, have all of you used complete immersion ?

My immersion is like the best I can do... not 100% cos I don't live in Japan... but all my media is Japanese (except for French stuff which counts as immersion for french) and I do live with Japanese and spend a lot of time with them. I wind up reading a lot in English because that's a big part of my life too. So maybe 50% immersion?? Or a little more than that...

I have too much crap to watch lol.
I have my Japanese tv shows (drama/talk/variety shows) - that 4 hour honama dekka special.. i didn't make half way through it and 2 episodes has aired since then and ihav eother shows i havent seen... not enough time..
American Dramas.

I wanted to start learning mandarin and/or korean but like i don't have time to learn them or watch their respective dramas or movies because i have too much japanese stuff to watch

I also read Japanese books on top of this, and try to keep up with the japanese music/korean music. I just love japanese crap. so much crap~ by crap you know what I mean I hope. I don't know anything justin bever or miley cyrus or whatever their crap cause i don't immerse my self with american news or whatever. and i'm really happy don't know the song titles of the latest songs that are out (top 40 mainstream american music) because they sound like noise and i don't have to know it or care about it.

and yes i live in america. so i think I'm doing a good job and it is really enjoyable.