The Study Thread

[jklMember]

Today I finished my first Japanese book. It is a 31-page children’s book called やさしい　おおかみ, and it is written entirely in hiragana. I first tried reading it way back in December of last year, when I was having trouble even reading the kana properly. I had to set it aside, and I just picked it up again recently. This time around things went a lot better.

Thanks go out to Sheepy, Bbvoncrumb and Elenkis for help with a few parts I had trouble reading. Overall I think my favorite sentence was:

「いいたければ、いわしておけば　いいさ」　おおかみは　もう　きにしませんでした。

Cheers!

[winterpromise31Moderator]

Congrats on reading through your first book!

[マーク・ウェーバーMember]

Went to bed after doing some lessons in season 2, and when now I am in season 4 0.o – Being halfway through total ammount of lessons feel awesome, and thinking back just 1½ month from now I can see that I have done alot of progress :)
Did 10 kanji today, loads of reviewing, and 2 lessons :D

And congrats with the book! Good idea to be reading books for children, I am might be tempted to do that once my vocab expands :)

[N’DonnaMember]

Nice to know that I am in season two now as opposed to season one. Working on the one and two stroke radicals as well as asking questions. At this rate, I hope I’m able to write a few sentences on lang-8.

It’s hilarious, because my son is trying to learn with me. He can kind-of sing the Japanese version of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (きらきらぼし）and says some words. Though he insists on pronouncing いただきます”Ticky-Tocky Mass!”…I’m not kidding.

Japanese is fun. :)

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[missingno15Member]

Today, I lost again. I lost in Japanese which one of the last things and one of the only things I’m good at. But I have to face the music. I suck at Japanese. I really suck. I really am just a beginner. Then I finally realized that…..I hate losing. I believed that I was ok with it, thinking that there will always be a next time to make it better. Throughout my life, I’ve always done things to a 適当な level and as a result, lost to everyone in everything whether it be tennis, grades, or Japanese (the only things that i’m “good” at is tennis and japanese). But I have to change who I am from now on if I don’t want to ever lose again.

That is why I have an announcement to make. After the mini-lesson that I posted recently ends, I will be leaving Textfugu as part of a way to re-shape myself. I’m not sure about forever because maybe I will pop back in from time to time.

So with that said, if I had a final request, it would be to try out my mini lesson.

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%91%E5%B9%B4%EF%BC%99%E6%9C%88%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90%E6%97%A5-%E5%88%9D%E6%81%8B/

よろしくお願いします。

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[ElenkisMember]

I’m very sorry to hear that you will be leaving. I’m sure you have your reasons but it seems like you’re being overly critical of your abilities.

Anyway, your mini lessons have been both fun and informative and I’ve enjoyed reading all your Lang-8 entries also. So thanks for sharing them with us over the time that you’ve been here. I hope that you manage to achieve whatever you’re aiming for.

Good luck to you!

[KiaiFighterMember]

I’m sorry to hear that too missing.

You should send me an email some time, if you wanna keep in touch at all.

You’re the one that gave me a real kick in the arse to really pick up my study habits. Now I7m sure to study everyday both my Kanji and Vocab! So thank you for inspiring me to try my best and never give up. Ideally, I’d like to inspire the same change in you or just be there to light the fire under your arse too!

Anyways, you can email me.
To prvent spam, I set up a temporary email at 29lkri3te36nq6a@jetable.org
Just email me and I can return your email from there.

[missingno15Member]

Yeah definitely, if you want to keep in touch, all my usernames are missingno15 (except for my AIM account which I pretty much stopped using) and you can find my facebook at Kenneth Uy. If you are trying to find it, I go to University at Buffalo NY. And please, if you do find me, let me know in detail who you are or I WILL suspend your friend request on purpose and decline it 2 weeks later. I don’t like adding people I don’t really know that well so I have no qualms doing something like that.

Perhaps I am being overcritical of myself and maybe it’s just me having an emo moment and i’ll just end up back here again. But I left Teamspeak for 2 months once to reflect on myself and it was something that I needed. So who knows.

[SheepyModerator]

Went to the city today, visited a lot of Japanese places. The most legit ramen place i know, maruyu the Japanese grocer, Kinokuniya too.

I bought a middle grader book called 若女将小学生 and よつばと！４

[jklMember]

@missing

I hope you find what you are looking for. Good luck.

[MisterM2402 [Michael]Member]

@missingno15: Cool story bro.

But seriously, the more time you spend “finding yourself” (like the plot of some terrible chick flick), the less time you’ll have to study Japanese and stop sucking – it’s really true when Koichi says “Just ****ing do it!”.

Also, at what level are you going to stop calling yourself a beginner? JLPT 1 equivalent? Semi-fluent? Completely fluent? Kanken 1 equivalent? NEVER?!?!? It’s this kinda shit that’s bringing you down; you’re only “sucking” at Japanese because you keep telling yourself you are. Yes, in relation to natives, you suck, but in relation to other learners (which is who you should be comparing yourself to), you’re doing pretty good, you’re doing most of the stuff you need to be doing to get better.

This emo phase will pass and you’ll be back: I remember a while ago you said the same thing and returned after a while anyway. Stop baww’ing and just get on with it, man! And I mean that in the nicest possible way :P

If that’s you gone for good then “ciao”, I guess. You and your AK47 will be missed ;)

[missingno15Member]

Dammit, I actually slept in. Fuc k you Sheepy!

I’ll say bye properly tommorow

>but in relation to other learners (which is who you should be comparing yourself to)…

That’s the point. I’ve always been doing that. But then what happens is that I always settle for that because I KNOW I am better than others and then never achieve the greatness that I’ve always wanted. Then when you let your guard down like that, eventually you will meet some one who’ll just pass and sweep you off your feet without you knowing.

A good example of this is me playing tennis. Long ago, I could have become an amazing tennis player but I all I did was play with people who I know I could win against (even all the way up to my senior year!) Eventually, these people start to become better and better and all I did was continue find other people whom I know I could beat. Sure enough, this is happening with Japanese too.

It would be rather naive of me to compare myself to you guys. Comparing myself to you means nothing to me :/

But aside from that, I want to leave Textfugu because I am trying to remove unnecessary things in order to focus and work even harder than ever. The way I am putting this in my head right now is going alone for zen training into the mountains sort of thing. As you can, I didn’t have a need for this forum for a long time but I stuck around because I do like to help from time to time.

And lastly, what reason wouldn’t be complete with a hint of idiocy?^^↓
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%91%E5%B9%B4%EF%BC%99%E6%9C%88%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90%E6%97%A5-%E5%88%9D%E6%81%8B/

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[YeeshaMember]

Missing, I wish you all the best and hope, to see you around from time to time. While I didn’t post that much here, I always enjoyed you posts and mini-missions (even though I don’t understand anything there because I’m a complete beginner ;)). So: good luck with your Japanese and everything else you want to achieve. :)

@Topic: I’m quite familiar with katakana by now, have done quite a bit of the first part of season 2 (or is it season 3 with the new layout? oO) but now I fight with Kanji. I don’t like learning Kanji. xD Hope to get better with it soon and to learn to enjoy it more. But grammar kinda fascinates me more. xD

[RevenantMember]

I always enjoy coming back to TextFugu to check back on something if I need to.
But I’m using a whole lot of different ressources to study and learn.
I’ll finish up RTK within the next 2 weeks, which gives me a huge boost in motivation to finally “get down to business” and
really begin learning Japanese.

I, too, hate the feeling of only being “mediocre” at everything I do, did and try to do.
It is important to look at yourself and analyze what you’ve been up to recently, make
yourself clear what your aspirations are and then proceed to throw out all the weight you’ve
accumulated over the last time you did this (distracting things, habits, lazyness that settled in).

I think someone called this “discipline” -> Remembering what your dreams are. And work for them.
Don’t kill yourself on the way tho, but some good hard beating sure does wonders from time to time.

[N’DonnaMember]

This weekend was busy. I learned 1-2 stroke kanji, as well as the particle は. I’m working on the chapter about “Identity”, but to be safe, I think I will go through the chapters again, as well as my kanji.

My Anki had a lot to eat this weekend!

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