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Find books, TV shows, movies and games that interest you and get stuck in. You’ll be learning without actually having to “study”. To be fair though, it all depends on what you mean by “Basically, I know a lot of Japanese” – if you really do “know a lot of Japanese”, regular native media is probably fine, but if you find you’ve overestimated your language ability (as plenty of people do), you can always try to find easier materials in the same vein (e.g. picture books, kids shows, bilingual books with both Japanese and English).
Also, what’s with the spaces? Japanese doesn’t use spaces, and if it’s readability you’re going for, kanji do that already (by which I mean they help show word boundaries).
Thanks for the suggestions, I’m looking for some content that can hold my interest while I’m on the go at the moment. I very well may have overestimated my abilities.
As for the spaces, I know kanji does boundaries of words and spaces are not normally used in Japanese, but for Japanese learning sights I do it for ease of reading on others behalf. I don’t do it when texting with friends or writing normally.
On that note, though: 日本
にで住んでいる. =DActually, using で there is not natural. に is definitely correct.
Also, you’ve got a weird assemblage of casual, polite and formal language going there. Suggest you pick one and stick with it.
In any case, where in Japan? How long have you been there? Enjoying it? You there with JET or something else? Get time to sightsee? =)
Oh boy are you right. I’ve never been able to get a good hold on the different styles. I learned many things in polite style, others in slang, and others in different forms of polite. So when I type or speak I often mix… It’s terrible, but I get away with it as a foreigner. It’s anther reason I’m here, lol.
I live in Mizonokuchi in Kanagawa. I came first after the tsunami and stayed for 1 year and then left, now I’m back. I get to sightsee a bit but I’m often busy. My work forces me to constantly use English too, so it’s harder to find time to practice properly.
Thanks Cimmik,
Yeah, I’m not here to shift responsibility or plead for things to be done for me. I don’t think “The Dip” and my hump are the same thing. I skipped ahead to read about it and I definitely hit “The Dip” before, and got past it. This is different. At least it feels different.
I’m here because there are some basics that I know I didn’t cover properly and I think that is what is preventing my ability to get past “The Hump” – which to me comes after “The Dip” and is much more like a plateau or an extremely long, slow moving, 1 or 2% grade up-slope.
