If you can’t do it, then you can’t do it.

Honestly, I think that he has the right idea. He’s prioritizing the things in his life and has the balls to announce it. There is nothing wrong in quitting and we all have things that we have quit before. I like it when people quit because they know what they want to do with themselves and not being all wishy washy about it. Quitting is not dumb, just unfortunate.

There’s no point in learning a language half heartedly. You might as well not learn the language at all.

But priorities aren’t set in stone. If Japanese is something that you live for, then you will come back to it. Doing it now is just not a good time.

If you’re gonna quit completely, go ahead.

At least, it was fun while it lasted right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhEK1mxOm-I

You’re very welcome Yggbert.

Undoubtedly, Dictionary of Japanese Grammar is the one of the best resources (even the Japanese language professors here at my university own all 3), but the problem that we are talking about is what to do once we are done with Textfugu. In this case, I recommended Japanese Sentences for Effective Communication. If I could get dofg, I would but I have immediate things to spend money on (college student necessities, may or may not include being a complete G).

One thing that I would have to warn about that book is the extent it covers. It will only take you so far (to intermediate, middle intermediate), so what you will do after that is up to you to figure out. Also another thing to be cautious about is the actual usage of the stuff that Sentences for Effective Communication covers which shouldn’t be a problem because if you were immersing yourself to begin with, you would be able to pick up what is used and what is not used as often. I finally understood today how vast middle intermediate level is before you can actually break into an advanced intermediate. For those aiming to get that middle intermediate, I would recommend reading TaeKim along with Effective Communication. And of course, if you have money to burn, Dictionary of Japanese grammar is also a must.

「また、勉強しても必ずしもいい将来があるわけではないという気持ちが強くなっているのかもしれない。

これは、相手の気持ちを大切にする日本人の考え方が日本語に現れている表現の一つですから、「。。。」が使えるようになると、会話が上手に聞こえます。」

Know everything in Effective Sentences and you would be able to read this. Getting this book is one of the best investments I have made so far for learning Japanese.

And Mark, I commend your efforts but no, what you wrote makes no sense to me at all. Also, you should fix your habit of making the weirdest conjugation mistakes and translating what you want to say too literally. (←linky link link) My friend and I had a good laugh out of it at 2am in the morning. No, we were not drunk. しっかりして頑張りなさい。

As for me, I tested into a Japanese class. Starting next semester, I will be taking JPN 202 (the highest class being JPN)402. I am now officially 1.5 years ahead in terms of classes as 一年生. I really like how thorough our university’s Japanese program is. The worst part is that I wanted to ask the professor what it would entail but as soon as I told him that I wanted to test into the class, he tested me on the spot which made me super nervous. What he did is take various passages from various textbooks and told me to read them and told me to answer according to the questions he asked (which from that point on was entirely in Japanese) about the passages I read. Unfortunately, I understood the JPN 301 passage that he told me to read which was about the amount of consumption of instant ramen in various countries – apparently, China is the highest and while I think Indonesia ranks second but I wasn’t able to adequately answer his question about that passage (something vague like, “What is this passage about?”) However, taking account the thoroughness of our school’s Japanese program, I think that JPN 202 is befitting for me.

• This reply was modified 13 years ago by  missingno15.

興味のある方は是非試してみてください

well you dont really need them. a whole series of textbooks can be spent buying a lot of reference books. obviously, you will have to spend money to learn japanese but I would suggest not using it to buy textbooks but reference books instead.

http://lang-8.com/123987/journals/1172898/

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/japanese-is-useless-and-a-waste-of-time-stop-learning-it

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/desires-and-decisions

Personally, I’m a shit lazy person too. When you say lazy, I cannot believe you because I mean in it every word that I am the laziest piece of shit that I know. I must have skipped a total of 7 classes this semester and skipped all my classes today including a Chem lab which I’m not supposed to skip. But hey, I’m there for it (Japanese).