日本でやりたいこと

Study Japanese language and culture. Well, obvioustly, that the reason I'm going. I want to improve my japanese language skills, understand fully the japanese mind. Still no clue if it's going to be possible, but perhaps, after this one year course I'd be nice if I could stay in Japan taking a master course, and after that taking another one in Portugal in translation. If not, I'll be happy with the translation one anyway.

Study those books on theories about the Japanese peple. the so called "日本人論". Gotta admit, reading this kind of academic books is one of my few not-so-guilty pleasures. Like, seriously, I really enjoy reading this. My brain is so underdeveloped that it absorbs everything I read and puts it to practice. if you know what I mean.

I like videogames, I either don't have time or will to play them. besides, playing downloaded games makes me feel kind of empty. But anyway, in Japan I'll be able to play games (nintendo ds)  I myself bought and will not feel that way. And it'd be nice to have someone to play too. I've been playing several games, I only play a few hours a month. I should turn playing videogames into a habit. it's good for your cognitive development and for your language skills too! And if you have friends to play, your relationships will for sure get tighter.
逆転裁判 (still so much to play, I can't wait!)　and ポケモン are a must.

Music. it's like... no shit! News flash, I like japanese pop! I'd really like to go to a music concert (パフューム at least, since 浜崎あゆみ is pretty much impossible, fan club and stuff...).

Make japanese and non japanese friends. It's going to be pretty cool to have friends that act on complete different ways than those of myself. I had very good and bad experiences with people my own age, so I just hope that those bad experiences won't happen in Japan.

Japanese television! I mean, come on! Japanese TV is awesome!comedy, drama, variety shows, commercials, just name'em!

Religion and Nature. I love nature, religion not so much, but once again gotta admit, shinto attracts me.

This is it for today's post. Less than 2 weeks to leave Portugal, I'm not really feeling anything, and I'm not sure if I should. This is going to be my first airplane trip, so I don't really know what to expect. And the idea of going alone makes me excited. The only place I lived alone was in Braga (where I did college) and the only place I went alone was Lisbon, so far.

Even though I said I wouldn't post any statistics for a while, I forgot that my srs reset does not affect the number of cards, so:

単語帳が作成された時期：7日 前 (it happened one week ago ;_ ; )
カードの合計数： 11098
ファクトの合計数： 11098

カードの習熟度
復習期間の長いカード: 9721 (87.6%)
復習期間の短いカード: 1350 (12.2%)
まだ見ていないカード 27 (0.2%) (added today, still haven't finished my reviews for the day, and I always learn new cards after the reviews)

熱心な学生？

Hey, why I so strict when it comes to learning Japanese? 

Nothing changed during that time, but I forgot the reason for like 2 years.
I remember thinking about this and telling to myself that the more I study now, the less I'll have to study when I have a job USING JAPANESE. onsidering that knowing a language is a skill that needs practice and constant stimulus and there is ALWAYS something you don't know, you have to study it like forever (if you're like me, someone who wants to ace in everything one likes and wants to know every single word).

*study as in watching TV, newspapers, music and other media, you know, real Japanese.

When I get a job I want to devote 100% of myself to it, I cannot waste time studying. this is the mindset I had when I started studying Japanese for real.

Now!, besides studying the language of course, I want to continue studying japanese culture, I've come to love studying it ever since I started feeling the need to really understand the japanese people. I now understand why some foreigners leave Japan hating it. They knew nothing about the Japanese culture! They probably had a culture shock and were not able to cope with it so they opted for the easiest way. Giving up.
You, the reader, you might think that I know a lot (like, you know, I'm here criticizing other foreigners and I only talk about Japan etc) but truth is I don't. BUT I want to and I think I will.


継続は力なり。

TO DO LIST

Here's an example from a day's "to do list":

- reps (throughout the day, 1min timeboxes)
- new vocab
- grammar review (cards)
- movie/drama
- 2 walks (45m+1h)
- twitter (articles on random themes, mostly Japan)
- twitter (読解）
- Reading (either english, japanese or portuguese, but I get bored easily unless its related to japonology)

(not necessarily in this order, I only watch movies/drama at night for instance)

when I'm in Japan it will change considerably considering that I'm going to have classes and friends and will want to experience Japan and japanese people as much as possible.

But I can make a prediction of my future mornings already:

6:00 shower
6:30 reps
7:00-8:30 breakfast + twitter
9:00 - 16.30h classes

statistics problem

My computer froze yesterday and my srs somehow made some kind of reset, fortunately I kept all my work (started in March 2010) but my statistics will start as if I started yesterday, therefore I will not post statistics for a while.

Still having some problems, somehow I'm not being able to sync. I changed the names of my decks in order to sync them and like have a new name for them (日本語, 中国語, 敬語, ポルトガル語・英語, 関西弁) but still couldn't sync.

最初のモチベーションの一つ

日本語を勉強する前に、日本語の勉強の仕方を勉強したときに、下記のポストを見て、モチベーションが上がりました。
今でも覚えている。懐かしいなあ。

"i passed level 1 after three long years.

kanji/vocab: 98/100
listening: 97/100
reading/grammar: 183/200 (92%)
total: 378/400 (95%)

genki 1+2 and an integrated approach, kanzen master 1+2, rtk1+2, a pocket pc loaded with stackz and jlpt lists and watching a lot of japanese tv shows (bittorrent) worked for me. imo, japanese is a really simple language and easy to learn."

ＫＫのＢｕｋｕｚｕｋｕｒｉというメンバーが書きました。

Pokemon Radio Show! ロケット団ひみつ帝国

テレビアニメ『ポケットモンスター』シリーズに登場する組織「ロケット団」のボスであるサカキの野望・世界征服をかなえるため、団員であるムサシ（声 - 林原めぐみ）・コジロウ（声 - 三木眞一郎）・ニャース（声 - 犬山イヌコ）の3人が、「全世界70億人をロケット団員の一員にすること」を目的としたという設定のラジオ番組である。
番組放送開始の発表に先行する6月2日に、Twitterの公式アカウントが開設されている。
『ポケットモンスター』シリーズの音響監督である三間雅文の発案であるとともに、構想に1年半かかったとのこと。また、三間は構成も担当する。
一般的なラジオ番組と同じく合間にはコマーシャルが挟まれ、そのナレーションは『ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ』に登場したサブウェイマスターのノボリ（声 - 佐藤健輔）とクダリ（声 - 古島清孝）が務めている。Twitterの公式アカウントでは、この2人がなにかしらラジオに関わるかのような事をほのめかす呟きがあった。なお、このコマーシャルはアニメイトTV・あにてれ・キッズステーションでのネット配信版ではカットされている。
wikipediaより 

楽しそう！

文法の勉強

比喩

たくさんある山を見て、登れないどうしよう、と思っているんじゃなくて、まず一つの山に登って頂上まで行くところからすべてははじまるんです。

orientation schedule @ 龍大

最初の日にテスト。