i’ll be posting a review about my summer language challenge and how i think it went! say bye bye to Japanese pictures 🍃
returning back to spanish content in 3, 2, 1...
I am rapidly outpacing my knowledge when it comes to writing and getting tangled up in my thoughts because I cannot write kanji fast enough...
10 juillet 19
j’ai oublié mon journal de l’année dernière ! je vais l’utiliser pour mes tâches quotidiennes en japonais quand je commence mes études de troisième cycle.
this notebook did not fit my needs last fall, but it will be more than enough this time around. i forgot the little stickers too .... 💌
in which i support nectarines in all their endeavors while adding furigana to my kanji practice 🌱
7 juillet 19 | by the time this posts, i should have passed the 10 hour mark for my japanese studies for this month! my writing has a lot of room for improvement, but i’m having fun with it. writing kanji out by hand feels artistic to me. in a few weeks, it’ll be the one year anniversary of this blog; it doesn’t feel like it’s been so long at all. 🍒
summer language challenge update:
officially hit 51 hours of Japanese studying yesterday, so this is a quick recap of my work until now!
I studied 167 kanji last month [a steady supply from the anki deck i’m using plus kanji n5 lists]. A good chunk of those were N4 level so I have a head start on that, haha. I think I have at least a dozen kanji lists in my language bujo now, going back to the beginning of May. I didn’t figure out what I wanted to do my layouts until mid-June, so everything is scrambled around.
Also, I’m in the midst of eating my hat because, while I hated JPN 1.0 from Duolingo, the second one is actually much better for me. There are still illogical hiragana choices in the sentences when the kanji is available, so that slows me down when I’m tired, but Duo does give me a good chance to practice some sentences [and they are simple enough that I’m not worried they sound unnatural].
a shameless plug here for the page that helped me crack word order [and the difference between は and が].
my actively used resource folder is getting a bit lengthy, so i’ll make a post for that towards the end of July [probably on my new langblr--which you’ll hear about soon].
and finally, yesterday, I wrote my first paragraph in Japanese. it took me about 30 minutes, but it was fun. :-]
15 juin 19 | last weekend i wrote down some verbs and nouns that i use often [or represent me]. at this point i’ve been on and off with japanese since march, and as much fun as it is to study a new language, i still feel like a deer in headlights. i’m over halfway done with my fifty study hours for this month, and should be finishing up in about a week, so i’m really excited to look back at my progress! maybe next month i’ll be able to write in japanese..
forgot to post my may goals ‘spread’ after completing it .. clearly i didn’t follow it but that’s life comme moi ! i did stay on track with my kanji goal [averaged around 3 a day actually], but none of the rest. a bit too ambitious for basically being A0. i think my goals for june make more sense, and we’re already a third of the way through!
things i did in an hour in my language journal:
🌼 got nearly to the end of my second kanji page [in twenty four hours nonetheless...] 🌼 finished my third words page 🌼 started my third anki vocab page 🌼 started my fourth words page
ran through the N5 list last week to make sure I at least know what’s necessary for A1-1...and found out the majority of kanji I already know is beyond N5 lol!
7 juin 19 | i hit 13 hours of study for the month of june two days ago! maybe i finally have a system down for including japanese [gasp]? asimismo je dois commencer à écrire encore en français. mais je ne sais pas si je veux écrire un journal...
#pooh stuff#japanese#studyblr#langblr#japanese vocabulary#writing#language journal#heypat#lookecho#gloomstudy#lookasta#therobotstudies#jungcinema#einstetic#vocative#adelinestudiess#i couldn't remember the word for also in french lol !#it only comes up in jpn spn kor n eng#my brain : eternally scrambled
28 mai 19
me pregunto si sea la única floridian que disfrutar las tormentas y los días lluviosos // if you want it by niteflyte
finally starting to fill this book out ! i think i’m up to 80 kanji, which is pretty cool. i might try to make it an even 100 before the fifty hours are up for this month. been checking out grammar here and there too, and working with sentences, but man, speaking is a bit difficult for me. what helps me in other languages is that they are not syllabary-based, so words tend to sound different from each other. they’re all blurring together in japanese, and i’m still confusing a lot of katakana for each other. i think this is why i have so much fun learning kanji over anything else.
avant travailler aujourd’hui, je vais jouer aux sims mdr . je joue aux sims en français, entendre les podcasts en espagnol et travailler en anglais et espagnol et français.. plus les leçons en japonais. j’adore les journées comme celle-ci.
surprised how nice it is outside when it feels like 93º F 🍃 es un día soleado
may is already over halfway past. about three months exactly that separate me from graduate studies.