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I know that there have been several threads about accomplishments. While I think that saying I did "X" amount of srs in "y" amount of time is great, it really doesnt say much. I dont study Japanese for the sake of studying, but i think that its really easy to fall in the trap of "always practicing and never doing." I think that we all study Japanese to "do" something with it.
So what interesting things have you "done" in Japanese?
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I bought my new cellphone by myself at the Softbank store. It wasn't perfect but I even saw Japanese people who were like "dude, what?"
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Read a Manga where World War II countries are represented by stereotypically acting Bishounen (I shit you not)
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Going from having weekly lectures entirely in Japanese at the beginning of the year and understanding 20% to now understanding 95% of what we are talking about.
And...
Navigating my way around 東京駅 after the catching the shinkansen from Osaka due to my flight being diverted after the Fedex crash at Narita back in March, while having a mobile phone that did not work in Japan and having no contact with the people I was meant to be meeting who were waiting at Narita, who had since gone to Haneda Airport and Tokyo Station to look for me. This is before borrowing another Aussie's phone I had met on the journey, to ring the hotel and try and get directions and find out what train to catch (luckily I had decided to type up all phone numbers of the hotels) Then walking hundred of metres down stairs to catch the subway train to the hotel I was meant to be staying at and then with a bit of sheer luck, running into our friends in the hotel foyer, all while dragging my 15 year old sister around behind me, plus two large suitcases. Topped off by having nothing to eat since crappy plane food at 12.00 pm and this now being 11.00pm at night, while secretly fretting that myself and sister would be stranded in some gigantic station halfway across the world with no contact with anyone we knew and would have to bunk down on some bench somewhere for the night. Then waking up at 2.00am in the hotel with a major delayed panic attack topped off with stress related stomach pains, headache etc for the rest of the holiday (only a week). Mind you I am pretty sure that I had stopped using Japanese after leaving Osaka Airport because the so called 'helpful' information desk lady just looked at me like I was stupid when I tried to explain what was going on...and I was too busy panicking, hyperventilating, breaking down, trying to be an emotion-less robot and starving to worry about thinking in Japanese. I remember by the end of it all I could manage when I asked an extremely unhelpful station master (I could tell exactly what he was thinking from the look on his face and it involves the word 'stupid' and the word 'gaijin') was 'Such and such line, shita?' and pointing down the escalator (one of the thousands in Tokyo Station). This didn't do anything to help disprove what he was thinking by the way..... I think I also managed a 'XXXどこですか' somewhere around this stage.
/end of most scary life experience ever
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one of the best things that i have done with my japanese was to go scuba diving in okinawa. Everything was done in Japanese.
highlight : i got hit in the face by the tail of a whale shark
