Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Yeah, when I started Textfugu, I thought to myself “I’ll do everything by the book, exactly as he says, even if it seems tedious, cause it’ll probably help”, just since I tend to skip a lot of the boring “practice” parts of most textbooks (maths, chemistry, etc.). Some people need that, but I don’t think it works for me – making 10 sentences with です in them just isn’t fun! :P So I gave up on the Passion list. Much better to spend time learning words that you might actually need to use at some point haha. Learn the 20 most common nouns instead of 20 obscure ones.
@Elenkis: I like structured reading exercises, but I haven’t read Genki 1; do you think I could just skip to Genki 2, having read Japanese for Busy People 1 and 2 already (on book 3 now)? Not sure if you’re familiar with them. I like the reading exercises in JFBP, so I’m guessing the ones in Genki would be pretty good too :)
鬱
Didn’t need to add any lines at all, it just fits so perfectly. Well, going by YOUR rules anyway…
;P…that makes sense.
What did you go for?
Got a few words into my Passion list then thought “Fuck THIS shit! :D” http://clipartist.net/openclipart.org/2011/June/24-Friday/fuck_that_face-555px.png (damn image embed not working :P). Didn’t make the slightest bit of difference. I’m most likely not going to get very far with 20 music-related words, a lot of which were just loanwords. I’m interested in learning Japanese anyway; I don’t need to try and “make it more fun”, like it’s some kind of chore.
I can’t really think what words you could even put on a video games list…?
-
This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by
MisterM2402 [Michael].
Either: email Koichi about it, ask his advice OR just go through the lists at your own pace, like I did :P Back when he first made the “ultimate” decks, he was revising the old Season 2 (or was it 3) chapters at a snail’s pace, so no way was I waiting for his instructions on which words to learn and when XD
Haven’t watched the video yet, but I’ll say that I don’t particularly want it that badly at all :P Learning Japanese is a hobby for me rather than an obsession. I’m not going to give up on it because I like it too much, but I won’t slit my wrists if I never get to live in Japan/meet AK47 haha. I was never weeaboo- or otaku-esque before I started studying, so my interest in/knowledge of Japan is relatively recent; there’s no real “lifelong passion” there. The society, culture and general attitude of Japan makes it seem like it might be my kinda place, but I’m not AJATT levels of craziness about it XD
@missingno15: Why are you asking that? You know how to say it. You also didn’t “just finish Season 2″ either. What’s with the whole “acting like you’ve just started” thing of late? Do you feel you don’t fit into the community much any more or something, trying to fit in with the new guys? :P
です・である・であります is like “it is” while ある・あります is like “there is” (or more literally, “it exists”). ある is for inanimate objects while いる is for… “animate” ones, living ones. じゃありません・じゃない・ではありません can be used anywhere, for anything, I think. A much more common conjugation of じゃありません is じゃないです, I guess since it’s easier to say, even though it’s not “technically” correct.
じゃありません, when combined with か, can have kind of a backwards meaning, but I’ve not got the time to go over it :P
…I think I’m not getting the rules to this game :S Where are 末 and 未 and 兄 and 它 and 叉 and 市 and 瓦 and 母 and 半 and 守 and 舟 and various other kanji that have already been mentioned? What about all the kanji with curved lines?
You’re just making this shit up as you go along :P
Oh crap, I forgot about these :D All those times I’ve complained about Koichi not doing enough, I could’ve brought up his abandonment of THIS as well XD
@Sheepy: I had a sneaking suspicion that was the case. Either that or a wallaby-related sport.
Finished Japanese for Busy People II last night :) Onto book III tonight, I think – borrowed them both from my uni library :D
@missingno15: You can’t even understand all of that? Pfft! Pathetic, really. I’d tell you what it means but, y’know, it’s better if you work it out yourself.
-
This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by
