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I’ve used lang-8 a couple of times in the past and I’ve just started using it again. Only problem I’ve had is that the people posting in Japanese seem to be waaaaay ahead of me in their language ability so I don’t get to read much.
There any other lang-8 users on here, would be nice to read some other users posts and see what others are writing.
I’m on as Lord_Azael if anyone feels like adding me btw, not that i’ll necessarily post much…
Added you http://lang-8.com/123950
I NEVER post. I just correct peoples English and talk to fellow people.
@Kaona: Needs MOAR POSTS! But that first post, did you write it yourself or Google translate it? ;) hehe I only say that because I didn’t think you’d been studying Japanese as long as that (or that you would have known all those words/kanji back then). Don’t be offended XD
Also, you’re learning Korean too? How do you find learning two languages at once, or do you not need to study Japanese as much anymore? Do you use Japanese resources for learning Korean? That would be my goal, to be fluent enough in Japanese that I could use it to learn other languages haha “Language Laddering” I think it’s called.@Ryuuguu I felt the same one after only one post so I didn’t post again…it’s been like 2-3 months since then.
I think Lang-8 should be use later in the lessons because of the corrections are really tough to understand (especially when you are only season 3-level japanese and just writing is though enough)
So for me, I’m waiting to be a little better and I’ll give it another shot since it’s truly a great learning ressource
@Mister, I’m afraid to say I was a complete beginner back then and I did Google Translate it. :P
For the past 3 years I’ve been learning French, German and Japanese and ALL of the language learning has suffered. Thankfully I no longer have to learn French or German so I’m able to focus completely on Japanese now.
I only know the Korean ‘alphabet’ and basic words. Korean (from what I’ve gathered) is a lot harder to grasp than Japanese but the learning of the ‘alphabet’ and words themselves are pretty easy. You can learn the whole ‘alphabet’ in a day as there are only 24 characters!I hardly learn Korean (unfortunately) because I’m more into learning Japanese right now. Perhaps when I’m more advanced in learning Japanese I’ll dive into Korean as my dream is to be fluent in both of them languages but being advanced in Korean and fluent in Japanese is good enough for me. And reading all this I think I’m a bit ambitious. >.<''
Just be careful because sometimes lang-8 realizes how much you actually suck at a language
http://lang-8.com/123987/journals/1054112/
@Kaona: Aha! I guessed right :P I think I did that too. What gave it away was using the word「学ぶ」- Google translate seems to like that one for some reason XD
About Korean… I saw that this Youtube girl (Ryuzaki1411) was studying Korean at the same time as Japanese – though she is pretty damn good at Japanese – so I thought “hey, that sounds like a good idea; maybe some time in the future :D”. But then I thought “wait, what would be the point in that? I don’t know, or care enough to learn, anything about Korea, so why would I spend time doing that…? XD”. My thoughts also went to “hmmm… maybe Mandarin – could be useful when speaking to our new Chinese overlords (when they take over the world)”, but then “nah, don’t really care enough about China either (and Mandarin would be HAAAARRD!!)”. “French maybe? Would continue from what I learned in high school… nah, they suck :P Spanish maybe? One of the most widely spoken in the world… but no, Spain/South America is too hot!!”.
So, if I ever bother to learn any other languages once I get really good at Japanese, it’ll be either German, Russian or some Scandanavian one (Norwegian, perhaps).
Yeah…
**I COULD learn the tongues of my ancestors – Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Lithuanian, perhaps some others – but who speaks THOSE?! ;)**
How about learning esperanto mister? It might be used a lot in the future, there’s no right or wrong since it’s man-made and I think it’s supposed to take less than a year to get pretty fluent at it.
Ryuzaki1411 aka Grace is really inspirational and she’s currently studying Japanese 9 hours a day. Damnnn!
Oh yeah, now I remember that she’s learning Korean as well but I don’t think she really concentrates on that as much as Japanese.
To learn a language you’ve got to be really motivated to get far so I understand what you’re saying.
Hey, I know people who are trying to become fluent in Latin and it’s a dead language. XD Oh wait, I just realised they are all nerds. :S@Kaona: Hey, I’m a nerd too, but I still see that Latin is pointless :P All it’s good for is studying ancient texts really.
Grace is awesome hehe I’m not as keen on her “cutesy” videos, but I like hearing her speak Japanese :P But when she says “studying” 9 hours a day, I think that’s more “doing something Japanese” for 9 hours, like reading or watching TV. While that’s still “studying”, it’s not the same as sitting reading textbooks and making flashcards etc., if you know what I mean.
I like how on her latest video there was a guy who commented “I can’t fap to this!” XD And she just replies “Oh dear…”
Her Japanese is really good, she seems to know a lot (I hate it when she says she’s not that good) and I agree with you on the studying part as studying has a broad range of meaning.
LOL.
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