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Does anyone have plans for Japanese-related New Year’s resolutions? Anything massive you’ll be undertaking this year? Any small plans?
For me, 2012 was a terrible year for Japanese. Between a family member being diagnosed with cancer and me being away from home for two months to my husband and I moving across country and trying to get settled… I studied very little. As far as study hours are concerned, this is the worst year I’ve had since I started.
2013 will be much better! I am determined to get back into the habit of regular study. For now, I am committing to 30 minutes of quality study time each day. Once I get back into the swing of things, I might aim for an hour a day like I was doing in 2011. Either way, it’ll be a great year and I hope to be confident enough to consider myself intermediate level soon. I think next winter I’ll also sign up for the JLPT for the first time.
Anyone else?
I have a similar resolution… I have been presented with the opportunity to live in Japan over the summer in 2 years. I think I will be living with a host family, speaking only in Japanese. However, I am a bit far away from that advanced of Japanese study, so I have a lot of ground to cover until then.
I will also be taking either the n5/n4 or both, to test myself as ready enough to go xD.
So, my new years’ resolution extends for several years~ Basically just a lot more study in general, like you.(:
Mine is to devote more time to study and finish the textfugu lessons next year.
Also, not Japanese related, but more generally on language, to start tutoring people who are learning English.
I’ve chosen a similar goal of a half hour each day too!
I’ve decided that I want to become fluent in Japanese!
@missing – how did you go in the JLPT?
probs failed
Ah, no good. Persistence!
Good goals, everyone! It’ll be a great year!
I signed up for a short 4 week study program in Japan on Dec 30th so my Resolution is to learn as much as possible for when I go, as well as save up as much money as possible so I can do a lot of cool things and buy lots of stuff to bring back.
My goal for 2013 is to learn Hiragana. I’d gotten a good start last year, made my own flash cards, and had about a third to half of the characters memorized. And then the holidays happened, and I backslid terribly. Back on the Hiragana wagon! Just signed up for the lifetime Textfugu, very excited about this.
Admiral Awesome – When is your trip to Japan? How fun!!
Peppergrass – You can do it! Push yourself to finish Hiragana in just a couple of weeks and then you’ll have the rest of the year to make tons more progress!
Well I figured “Learn Japanese” was too ambitious for a resolution, so I thought I’d start small (i.e., realistic) and work from there. ;) Thanks for the encouragement!
July 22nd to August 18. So I got a ways to study before I have to leave. My mother got me a 10000 yen note for Christmas, so I keep it on my desk in my dorm as motivation for me to learn and work hard. I guess it’s a sort of Resolution reminder.
Peppergrass, I hope you don’t spend the whole year on Hiragana, that sounds a bit… excessive. Unless I was learning the wrong thing, I could read, write and recognise hiragana within a week, with nothing more than a video of some anime girl reading hiragana, and wikipedia’s standard Hiragana stroke order picture. I just looked at the chart for 5 minutes, then tried to copy the chart from 100% memory, and each time of repeating this, a few more hiragana would appear on the chart each time until I had the entire thing filled out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPJM1sP5A8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table_hiragana.svg
merry christmas.
Thanks. I have no idea how long it takes the average person to learn Hiragana. If it only takes me a couple of weeks to learn it, fantastic. Then I can move on to the next stage of learning Japanese. I’d just rather make small goals to work toward than large, vague ones that I might not achieve. Thank you for the links.
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