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@Gigatron: I’ve never been anywhere in Europe (alas), but I have a fondness for the general area just the same. Maybe someday we can meet up and chat about places other than here, or maybe we can just blather about it occasionally online. ;D Me, I like freezing winters with lots of snow. Boots, scarves, gloves and jackets are too awesome for me not to want to use them waaaay more than we get to here.
As for whether I’m doing better than you — ha! ;) We’ll see how long I last! Not that I intend on giving up any time soon, but I am somewhat whimsical. ;D Thanks for the encouragement, regardless … and even if it is true that I’m doing relatively well, it’s probably only because I’m tinged with crazy and am allowing myself to ride the wave of the obsession before it passes me by. (Seriously, though, it’s been a long while since I let myself do anything really well, so this would be kind of a milestone. But that’s a story for another time. ;))
Welcome, from another newbie! I’d never heard that about Mt. Fuji and the clouds, but cheers to the whole idea! I hope someday I get to see it without clouds, too. ;)
@Gigatron: Cool! I used to visit your area fairly regularly, since I used to do the Ren Fair down there. :D Where are you from originally? Our weather is definitely its own entity, and a pretty in-your-face one, at that. ;)
@Tom: Yeah, the lack of Cantonese resources could throw a wrench in the works … but maybe it’ll just turn out to be an interesting challenge. (Cross fingers)
As far as where I am with Japanese, I’m, oh … an obsessed beginner? Not sure how to assess my level accurately without having someone fluent tell me where I am, and since I’m learning on my own, I don’t have a teacher to ask. If it gives you an idea, though, I know the kana and a few kanji, and I have a decent grasp of the grammar basics and a fair number of particles, although I’m not 100% reliable at accurate recall of anything. When I watch anime I catch maybe 25% of the words, and here and there I’ll understand whole (short) sentences. I can’t really write in Japanese at all yet, which seems in line with the way TF looks at things. ;) (Someday I want to start doing brush calligraphy, so I really do want to learn to write, but I’m more concerned with absorbing the language as a whole right now.)
@Gigatron: Thanks most kindly! I’m in the Tampa Bay area — Palm Harbor specifically. (Which is one of those places that people either know, or didn’t know existed. ;)) Nice to see another Floridian! Where are you located?
Thankee muchly! ;D
I wish this forum had “like” buttons, just so I could click the one on Hashi’s last post in this thread.
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Crystal. Reason: obsessive grammatical clarification
A J-rock star! A superhero! A government spy!
Or maybe just asleep. I dunno.
Anyway, I’d love to see a bookmark feature, too, and a progress bar would be a nice, but not uber-necessary, bonus IMO. (I mean, I don’t know how a progress bar would take into account whether you’re skipping around at all. Maybe there could be a button to click at the bottom of each page to show you’re “done” with it, or maybe there could be actual interactive quizzes to test your knowledge, which is what determines the state of the progress bar? And maybe there’s another thread on this already that I haven’t seen because I’ve only just started poking around here, so I apologize if I’m repeating stuff other people have said. ;))
For some reason it really entertains me that the same character can have a bunch of different pronunciations (in Japanese and Chinese and anything else where that applies), so that shouldn’t be too much of a stumbling block, I hope. As for choosing Cantonese first, I blushingly admit that at the moment it’d probably be easier for me to learn Cantonese because a lot of old movies that I enjoy are dubbed in Cantonese … ;)
Not that visiting Japan and China, where I can use the languages in a variety of practical ways, aren’t on my list of goals. I just figure that the travel will probably happen well after I start learning the languages, so I might as well work with what I’m currently exposed to!
Glad you think it’s awesome. ;D Like you, I’m going to wait until I feel really comfortable with Japanese and then go on to Chinese. Right now I’m thinking of doing Cantonese first and then Mandarin, but who knows how things will turn out when I get there? It IS nice to hear that you think learning Japanese will help with Chinese — I’ve been feeling a little paranoid that someone will tell me it will make it harder because the hanzi aren’t really the same as the kanji. (Not that that would stop me from trying!)
Thanks, Tom! BTW, glad to see that someone else on here wants to eventually learn Chinese. ;D I’m actually half Chinese, so that’s definitely on my bucket list.
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