blackbrich
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From: America
Registered: 2010-06-06
Posts: 253
Ok, I've been a point for a while now where I can read at least shounen manga(All I read mostly) fairly easily, can read light novels with a couple of unknown words every page but mostly adjectives, can understand anime enough to know what is happening, not 100% by any means.
But every little while, maybe for a week or more at a time it seems like my brain just shuts off to Japanese. I'll hear something and it just blows by me, but was watching the same show with much more understanding before. I'll try reading and grammar that I've read before will just baffle me. And lets not forget, me forgetting simple words.
It's not like I'm back at hearing babble, but it's not where it was or so it feels.
This feelings over now and I'm back to normal I guess.
This ever happen to anyone else?
Tzadeck
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From: Kinki
Registered: 2009-02-21
Posts: 2139
Could be from being tired, being stressed, not concentrating, having something new going on in your life, etc.
I've played guitar for like ten years and have gone through something like it a million times. Sometimes your playing just isn't good, sometimes for a couple of weeks at a time, and the reason is sometimes a mystery.
I've learned Japanese for almost 6 years, but I don't feel it quite so much with Japanse, though something like it occasionally happens.
einahpets
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From: Chicago
Registered: 2011-10-14
Posts: 59
4. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. This means that the more Japanese you learn, the more you understand the vast depth of Japanese there is left for you to learn, which puts your original mindset of your progress into a different perspective.
This one is me - when I first started learning I didn't realize it but I was comparing how much I knew to knowing nothing about Japanese and feeling pretty good about it...then I don't know when, but at some point, I started comparing what I knew to the whole of the Japanese language and started feeling pretty crappy about it for a while...
That aside, I have always felt like I have "good" Japanese days and "bad" Japanese days. The "bad" days can be frustrating, but I guess having been going long enough with the language to know that they will pass makes it easier to go through. Sometimes the bad days are obviously caused things others have already mentioned like lack of sleep, stress, or not enough food (I have a fast metabolism and don't function well without eating regularly).
blackbrich wrote:
かもって？ツナデ...ナルト...うずまき...渦巻き...ワンピース...ルフィ...頭わりぃ...腹減った
I can focus for maybe like 5 minutes and then it's over, but something with visual I'll be engrossed most of the episode.
I'm also immersed, but I just don't spoken Japanese. It seems like my brain blocks any input. If I hear a word, e.g. ふくしゅう then I have to find the right kanji in my "library" (my brain/memory), in order to understand. This finding process is still really slow, although I constantly listen to Japanese (podcasts, movies).... it's depressing. I have days I understand more, I have days I feel like I don't know any Japanese lol
and this is coming from someone who has watched a lot himself!
