来週の今頃は何をしているかまったくわかんない。
旅行代理店に行った。今週の金曜日はスト。昨日はストだった。だから、定かではないけど、ほかの日にストのおそれがあると思う。
なんだ、初めての旅行なのに・・・・
まーっ！ とにかく！ 行くことは確かだから、大丈夫。頑張る！
だけど、気になることはひとつ。洗濯。私は洗濯機は一度も使ったことないから。頑張るけどね！
来週の今頃は何をしているかまったくわかんない。
2012年9月4日
５
来週の今頃はたぶん寮で寝ている。
喫茶店へ行きたい。けど、パソコンの充電器がないんで、今はしばらくうちにいる。父のうちから来て、今は母のうちにいる。もう30分後に、また、地元の中心に通う。
今日は何をするかまったくわからない。毎日のように過ごすと思う。
昨日はデパートでのときは大変だった。お疲れさん。11時に寝て、7時に起きたのはうれしかった。
でも、わかんないなあー。ある時何も感じてないのもあったら、感情がすごい込み上げるあゆも・・・・。なんでだろっ・・・・ね？
今は朝だから、カフェインもまだ飲んでないし、 インスピレーションはたぶんまだ来てない。
30分後に、喫茶店へ行って、ツイッターを通して記事やニュースを呼んで、 またちょっと勉強して、ってことを楽しみにしてるん。あと30分だけ。
来週の今頃はたぶん寮で寝ている。
喫茶店へ行きたい。けど、パソコンの充電器がないんで、今はしばらくうちにいる。父のうちから来て、今は母のうちにいる。もう30分後に、また、地元の中心に通う。
今日は何をするかまったくわからない。毎日のように過ごすと思う。
昨日はデパートでのときは大変だった。お疲れさん。11時に寝て、7時に起きたのはうれしかった。
でも、わかんないなあー。ある時何も感じてないのもあったら、感情がすごい込み上げるあゆも・・・・。なんでだろっ・・・・ね？
今は朝だから、カフェインもまだ飲んでないし、 インスピレーションはたぶんまだ来てない。
30分後に、喫茶店へ行って、ツイッターを通して記事やニュースを呼んで、 またちょっと勉強して、ってことを楽しみにしてるん。あと30分だけ。
来週の今頃はたぶん寮で寝ている。
2012年9月3日
６
来週の今頃はもう日本にいる。
どの効果があるのかな、時差は。 これ、意外と、本当に試してみたい。 時差の効果も初めてですよ。
今日は最後に旅行のために買い物をする。 私といつも一緒リュックの中の中身を。本、ＮｉｎｔｅｎｄｏＤＳ、ＭＰ３など以外のもの。何か食べるもの、衛星のものとか。
何かを感じてる？それとも、私が書いた言葉から、私が何かを感じているかわかる？まったくわからない。 緊張？わかんない。
とにかく、日本で楽しく頑張って、日本語と自分を鍛えるべき。それが私の責任だ。
完璧さは実はしない。私の日本語、私の全てが、いくら鍛えても、自分にとって「まだ長～い道を歩くんだ」と。
だって、できる限りこの道を、歩くんじゃなくて、全力で走るんだ、と。
完璧さは実在はしない。鍛えるうちに、改善の余地がいつもはあるから。
来週の今頃はもう日本にいる。
どの効果があるのかな、時差は。 これ、意外と、本当に試してみたい。 時差の効果も初めてですよ。
今日は最後に旅行のために買い物をする。 私といつも一緒リュックの中の中身を。本、ＮｉｎｔｅｎｄｏＤＳ、ＭＰ３など以外のもの。何か食べるもの、衛星のものとか。
何かを感じてる？それとも、私が書いた言葉から、私が何かを感じているかわかる？まったくわからない。 緊張？わかんない。
とにかく、日本で楽しく頑張って、日本語と自分を鍛えるべき。それが私の責任だ。
完璧さは実はしない。私の日本語、私の全てが、いくら鍛えても、自分にとって「まだ長～い道を歩くんだ」と。
だって、できる限りこの道を、歩くんじゃなくて、全力で走るんだ、と。
完璧さは実在はしない。鍛えるうちに、改善の余地がいつもはあるから。
来週の今頃はもう日本にいる。
７
来週の今頃は飛行機の中にいる。
今日は荷物の準備をした。
まだ何も感じないのは不思議ぃー・・・・・・だって初めてですよ。日本は始めて、飛行機も始めて。母語と全然違う言語の国へ行くのも初めて。日本語だけで喋られるのも初めて。まあ、いいじゃん？全部初めてって。 たぶん、気付かないまんま何かを感じてはいる。
だって、飛行機って怖いよねって思って。
最近、すごい早い起きている。ってか、4時、5時だとか。けど、夜も早く寝るようにしてる。なんでだろう、こんなに早く起きるなんて？
最近ね、気合を入れるため、音楽を聞く。本当に気合を入れて。 最近は。 だって、こないだ、なんかの曲を聞いてたとき、歌詞を見ることなく、うわー、全部わかるって思ってた。 すごいよね。 でね、いい感じがして、強くなっちゃって。見たいな感じ。鳥肌がたつほど、いい感じ。めっちゃ強く感じる。聞いてる間。
変だなぁ、私って。
来週の今頃は飛行機の中にいる。
今日は荷物の準備をした。
まだ何も感じないのは不思議ぃー・・・・・・だって初めてですよ。日本は始めて、飛行機も始めて。母語と全然違う言語の国へ行くのも初めて。日本語だけで喋られるのも初めて。まあ、いいじゃん？全部初めてって。 たぶん、気付かないまんま何かを感じてはいる。
だって、飛行機って怖いよねって思って。
最近、すごい早い起きている。ってか、4時、5時だとか。けど、夜も早く寝るようにしてる。なんでだろう、こんなに早く起きるなんて？
最近ね、気合を入れるため、音楽を聞く。本当に気合を入れて。 最近は。 だって、こないだ、なんかの曲を聞いてたとき、歌詞を見ることなく、うわー、全部わかるって思ってた。 すごいよね。 でね、いい感じがして、強くなっちゃって。見たいな感じ。鳥肌がたつほど、いい感じ。めっちゃ強く感じる。聞いてる間。
変だなぁ、私って。
来週の今頃は飛行機の中にいる。
2012年9月1日
Motivation and power talk
Yesterday I had a tough day. If you happen not to know why just read my previous post.
Yesterday. I had a visit from an aunt and her family (husband and two kids) at night. I had the most interesting talk with my uncle. He is a teacher at Minho University. I really don't know how to start, so I'll just use points and will explain and comment on them.
1. Opportunity of a lifetime.
Take the most out of it. Ages between 19-25 will define who you are and will mold your brain. This is the time were you make the most important choices of your life.
2. You should have chosen China. BUT!
Yeah, but! But if you really like what you are doing you should continue doing it. "When I put some of my not so good students working on what they liked, they're works were far better than those of the perfect students, who always follow things according to what they are given."
3. There is always a vacancy for the best.
If you work hard, if you get to be the best through your own means, you'll have no problems finding a job. The best are always employed, in fact, companies lack truly good, the best, employees.
4. Working with the best, will make you the best.
But if you accommodate with the weak, you will become, weak. Now this is trueI will state my own experience with this. He made me think about it and I came to the following conclusion. And will give you my own example, Japanese, the skill I'm forging.
1st year. There were the weak ones, and I think there was no clear line on who was the best. Many students had high grades, so we were more or less even. This was frustrating. I'm here to be the best, I thought. We were all equal, we were all good.
2nd year. So during the summer vacation I studied. And in the second year the class began having the weak ones, the average ones, and the good ones. It was in the second year that my japanese started improving rapidly, I was focusing on Japanese, this is what I want, this is what I'm gonna do.
Eventually I started having people from my class and from other classes asking me to do and correct their japanese essays. I would only correct and give hints though.
In the second year I worked my ass of for japanese, it was hard, but I did it. And I'm gonna be brutally honest here. I became the best student in the class. But I worked for it.
3rd year. My japanese class had 3 students. When the year started I had already studied everything for the JLPT2, so I could afford to"waste" my time on "studying" things I liked, as I also did though the 2nd year - with more difficulties of course.
However, I was not motivated as I was in the previous two years. I didn't feel anyone fighting, striving to be the best, not anymore, not like in the first year where we were all equally "good".
Now, the 4th year. I'm going to Japan, I'll be in a class with people around my level, and hopefully better than me. My goal is once again to be the best. But I want to fight for it. I want to feel powerful, I want to beat my classmates japanese level. When you work with the best, you always get better. These are times when you need to stand out from the crowd, you need to be different from all the others, otherwise will be just "one more".As the person I like the most in the world would say "be ambitious"!
4. Regardless of what people say against you, keep fighting and doing what you want.
University is a jungle. But this is your life, not theirs. If they are talking against and bashing you is because they are envy and they can't face the fact that you are better than them.
This is also true. For the 3 years I was in college there wasn't one moment, one semester I wasn't bashed by some people. They always commented negatively that I was always studying, and how I had no social life. They even bashed me in front of people that they didn't even know were my friends (that's how I got to know).
Does one really need to go to the disco and drink alcohol to have a social life? Nuh uh, don't think so...
I will give even give you an example.
This friend of mine, she's actually going to study chinese to Scotland. She was one of the few who bashed me the most through my first year. Until we got to be friends. We started going to the same coffee, and eventually started studying together. Until she got to know me, my real me (the one who's supposed not to be studying all the time), and not the person she saw in the classes, she didn't respect me.
Now she respects me so much to the point that she mentioned in one chinese class that I was her role model. Not bragging about myself here, I just want the reader to see the difference in her attitude towards me after getting to know me.And she even got to see my social life, and be a part of it.
As for my answer to the "who's your role model?" question, I will not mention who it is, but the answer is pretty obvious for those who know me well. I'm sorry reader, for letting you blank.
5. Brain connectivity
The more connections our brain does, the more brighter the ideas that may rise to surface.
6. Feeling of achievement through hard work is the best.
And if you achieve something without working for it, it won't taste as good. It probably won't taste at all.
So this was it.Yesterday I could barely reply, I was only listening. It was like a university lecture. And it was awesome because I could relate to everything my uncle was saying. "Yes! I know ! I even discuss that online (twitter)". Was one of the few replies, apart the many "yes"s I returned to my uncle. Who's like the dark sheep, the guy who everyone doesn't like, the boring dude, the dude that knows too much.
I don't like to make posts one right after the other, but I had to write this one. After all, what's the purpose of a blog? ...Of my blog? To keep a log on my Japanese studies to see who I was, who I am, and who I'll be.
Yesterday. I had a visit from an aunt and her family (husband and two kids) at night. I had the most interesting talk with my uncle. He is a teacher at Minho University. I really don't know how to start, so I'll just use points and will explain and comment on them.
1. Opportunity of a lifetime.
Take the most out of it. Ages between 19-25 will define who you are and will mold your brain. This is the time were you make the most important choices of your life.
2. You should have chosen China. BUT!
Yeah, but! But if you really like what you are doing you should continue doing it. "When I put some of my not so good students working on what they liked, they're works were far better than those of the perfect students, who always follow things according to what they are given."
3. There is always a vacancy for the best.
If you work hard, if you get to be the best through your own means, you'll have no problems finding a job. The best are always employed, in fact, companies lack truly good, the best, employees.
4. Working with the best, will make you the best.
But if you accommodate with the weak, you will become, weak. Now this is trueI will state my own experience with this. He made me think about it and I came to the following conclusion. And will give you my own example, Japanese, the skill I'm forging.
1st year. There were the weak ones, and I think there was no clear line on who was the best. Many students had high grades, so we were more or less even. This was frustrating. I'm here to be the best, I thought. We were all equal, we were all good.
2nd year. So during the summer vacation I studied. And in the second year the class began having the weak ones, the average ones, and the good ones. It was in the second year that my japanese started improving rapidly, I was focusing on Japanese, this is what I want, this is what I'm gonna do.
Eventually I started having people from my class and from other classes asking me to do and correct their japanese essays. I would only correct and give hints though.
In the second year I worked my ass of for japanese, it was hard, but I did it. And I'm gonna be brutally honest here. I became the best student in the class. But I worked for it.
3rd year. My japanese class had 3 students. When the year started I had already studied everything for the JLPT2, so I could afford to"waste" my time on "studying" things I liked, as I also did though the 2nd year - with more difficulties of course.
However, I was not motivated as I was in the previous two years. I didn't feel anyone fighting, striving to be the best, not anymore, not like in the first year where we were all equally "good".
Now, the 4th year. I'm going to Japan, I'll be in a class with people around my level, and hopefully better than me. My goal is once again to be the best. But I want to fight for it. I want to feel powerful, I want to beat my classmates japanese level. When you work with the best, you always get better. These are times when you need to stand out from the crowd, you need to be different from all the others, otherwise will be just "one more".As the person I like the most in the world would say "be ambitious"!
4. Regardless of what people say against you, keep fighting and doing what you want.
University is a jungle. But this is your life, not theirs. If they are talking against and bashing you is because they are envy and they can't face the fact that you are better than them.
This is also true. For the 3 years I was in college there wasn't one moment, one semester I wasn't bashed by some people. They always commented negatively that I was always studying, and how I had no social life. They even bashed me in front of people that they didn't even know were my friends (that's how I got to know).
Does one really need to go to the disco and drink alcohol to have a social life? Nuh uh, don't think so...
I will give even give you an example.
This friend of mine, she's actually going to study chinese to Scotland. She was one of the few who bashed me the most through my first year. Until we got to be friends. We started going to the same coffee, and eventually started studying together. Until she got to know me, my real me (the one who's supposed not to be studying all the time), and not the person she saw in the classes, she didn't respect me.
Now she respects me so much to the point that she mentioned in one chinese class that I was her role model. Not bragging about myself here, I just want the reader to see the difference in her attitude towards me after getting to know me.And she even got to see my social life, and be a part of it.
As for my answer to the "who's your role model?" question, I will not mention who it is, but the answer is pretty obvious for those who know me well. I'm sorry reader, for letting you blank.
5. Brain connectivity
The more connections our brain does, the more brighter the ideas that may rise to surface.
6. Feeling of achievement through hard work is the best.
And if you achieve something without working for it, it won't taste as good. It probably won't taste at all.
So this was it.Yesterday I could barely reply, I was only listening. It was like a university lecture. And it was awesome because I could relate to everything my uncle was saying. "Yes! I know ! I even discuss that online (twitter)". Was one of the few replies, apart the many "yes"s I returned to my uncle. Who's like the dark sheep, the guy who everyone doesn't like, the boring dude, the dude that knows too much.
I don't like to make posts one right after the other, but I had to write this one. After all, what's the purpose of a blog? ...Of my blog? To keep a log on my Japanese studies to see who I was, who I am, and who I'll be.
my Dog
So. Here I am. Sitting in the usual place where I have breakfast some days a week. I've been avoiding to write about this at all costs, but it has just become impossible to endure.
Before coming here I took a long walk, wearing my sunglasses that make me look like a badass. While in fact I just wanted to hide my eyes. Now I'm here, without my suglasses, making an herculean effort not to let tears shed through my face while listening to this japanese girl called 里中なこ, who I have no clue on what she does for a living,, but downloaded her podcast anyway because it was in the "comedy" podcasts section. And again, drinking one "latte".
This is really hard you know.
Truth of the matter is that my dog has been sick for some months now. But for the past month or so that she's been getting gradually worse.
Today I saw my dog, my 10 year dog lying on my couch, shaking. and then I saw her again after lunch. I think her spirit was already not here that time. I was stiff like a rock. Don't want anyone to think I'm weak, so I usually act like I don't care, or that I'm not affected by the situation, but in fact I do care and I do am affected.
(涙が流れた。And my chin is shaky too. and my face muscles are contracting. I should put my sunglasses on.)
I have been expecting this day for some time, so this is kinda hard, but I came to get used to the idea, not intentionally, but just because.
Anyway. I'm glad I could speak to my dog before going to Japan. At least I could say goodbye.
For you, who are reading this. You probably don't know me in person. You probably couldn't care less about my dog.. But anyway. I just want you to know that my dog absolutely ruled. Even though she was small (in size) and a bit stupid (just like any dog), she was the greatest dog ever.
Before coming here I took a long walk, wearing my sunglasses that make me look like a badass. While in fact I just wanted to hide my eyes. Now I'm here, without my suglasses, making an herculean effort not to let tears shed through my face while listening to this japanese girl called 里中なこ, who I have no clue on what she does for a living,, but downloaded her podcast anyway because it was in the "comedy" podcasts section. And again, drinking one "latte".
This is really hard you know.
my dog as a puppy
Truth of the matter is that my dog has been sick for some months now. But for the past month or so that she's been getting gradually worse.
Today I saw my dog, my 10 year dog lying on my couch, shaking. and then I saw her again after lunch. I think her spirit was already not here that time. I was stiff like a rock. Don't want anyone to think I'm weak, so I usually act like I don't care, or that I'm not affected by the situation, but in fact I do care and I do am affected.
(涙が流れた。And my chin is shaky too. and my face muscles are contracting. I should put my sunglasses on.)
I have been expecting this day for some time, so this is kinda hard, but I came to get used to the idea, not intentionally, but just because.
Anyway. I'm glad I could speak to my dog before going to Japan. At least I could say goodbye.
For you, who are reading this. You probably don't know me in person. You probably couldn't care less about my dog.. But anyway. I just want you to know that my dog absolutely ruled. Even though she was small (in size) and a bit stupid (just like any dog), she was the greatest dog ever.
2012年8月29日
日本でやりたいこと その２
I actually forgot to mention a lot in yesterday's post.
Manga. I've been craving manga since like forever! I mean, I spent my childhood reading disney's and Mauricio de souza's comics. The only reason why I don't read manga is, hum, I can't read online, I like to read in paper and besides, reading online makes me not only tired as it makes bored. you know, having to scroll down the cursor is just boring.
Anime. This is going to be harder. Why? Because anime has like tons of episodes (unlike drama) and after a while I lose interest. But I'll try anyway.
Travel. I'm even taking to Japan hiking shoes. It's not that I'm going to hike, not really, but those shoes are more comfy to walk and to make longer "trips". I'm want to go here and there - if I have the money of course - but there's at least 2 places I really want to go (excluding everything in Kyoto).
Pokemon Stores (?). Like, I've always wanted to go to NY's Pokecenter, so since I'm in Japan, why not?
TO BUY A JAPANESE COMPUTER! Just because its cool. I have a sony vayo netbook actually, but c'mon...
TO BUY A GOOD PAIR OF JAPANESE IN-HEAR PHONES! Okay, this is just because I'm a in-hear-phones freak. See the enthusiasm in my caps lock letters?
Drink caffeine. And milk. LATTE! OH MY GOSH I DRINK THIS EVERY MORNING, HOW AM I GOING TO LIVE WITHOUT MY MORNING CAFFEINE?! It's not like I feel and want to feel caffeine's effects, but It's just a habit I have. I'll probably have to prepare this at home to save some money yeah, but it just won't be the same. I still need to think and explore solutions, because twitter without a good latte is not twitter. And I like to feed my addictions the classy way.
Read. A lot. In japanese, english and portuguese. One of my future goals is to take a masters in translation. SO, hum, stricly necessary.
And despite I feel my japanese is getting and will get better, I feel my native portuguese is getting, well, harder. In the sense that it happens to me a lot, and I mean A LOT, of times forgetting the portuguese word and remembering the english or japanese counterpart. But anyway, nothing reading or watching won't solve.
I want to read japanese literature and academic books I previously talked about. As for portuguese, I don't know how I'm gonna do.
Japanese food. Real japanese food and not just fake chinese restaurant sushi.
Study chinese? I guess... I mean, I want to study. I should. But it's just too boring. I'm still studying, everyday, but I just can't focus. I tend to read every common JPN-CHN word in japanese. it's faster.
Kinda of funny, it once happened to me in a class, I was reading a text with our like boss teacher and I read this really easy word in Japanese. it's like, the classroom was silent, with me reading, and then suddenly the teacher starts staring at me like furious, she asks me to repeat, and I read the same way, without understanding what I had done wrong, until someone saves me and just reads the word in chinese. I had a mental block there! I couldn't read the word in a way other than japanese. At least that's how I felt.
This now happens but a lot more frequently. And whenever I needed to speak chinese (I actually met several times with a chinese teacher, in a week, for like two months, I actually don't know why, it was her who asked me, and I'm not that good of a portuguese teacher, nor that good of a chinese student) and wouldn't remember a word, I would just write the word in japanese and show it to my chinese teacher, and she would just laugh and give me the chinese word and make me repeat the whole sentence, but this time using chinese. Or, I'd just think of the japanese word and tried to read it with the chinese reading. I remember that happened with the japanese word "終了".
I seriously don't know what to do. I mean, I know what to do, but I also know I'm not motivated.
Japanese language profieciency tests! JLPT N1 is the bare minimum. I'd also like to try 漢字検定 and ビジネス language tests. I want to take N1 this December, as soon as possible. the possibility of taking it during summer is just scary.
Manga. I've been craving manga since like forever! I mean, I spent my childhood reading disney's and Mauricio de souza's comics. The only reason why I don't read manga is, hum, I can't read online, I like to read in paper and besides, reading online makes me not only tired as it makes bored. you know, having to scroll down the cursor is just boring.
Anime. This is going to be harder. Why? Because anime has like tons of episodes (unlike drama) and after a while I lose interest. But I'll try anyway.
Travel. I'm even taking to Japan hiking shoes. It's not that I'm going to hike, not really, but those shoes are more comfy to walk and to make longer "trips". I'm want to go here and there - if I have the money of course - but there's at least 2 places I really want to go (excluding everything in Kyoto).
Pokemon Stores (?). Like, I've always wanted to go to NY's Pokecenter, so since I'm in Japan, why not?
TO BUY A JAPANESE COMPUTER! Just because its cool. I have a sony vayo netbook actually, but c'mon...
TO BUY A GOOD PAIR OF JAPANESE IN-HEAR PHONES! Okay, this is just because I'm a in-hear-phones freak. See the enthusiasm in my caps lock letters?
Drink caffeine. And milk. LATTE! OH MY GOSH I DRINK THIS EVERY MORNING, HOW AM I GOING TO LIVE WITHOUT MY MORNING CAFFEINE?! It's not like I feel and want to feel caffeine's effects, but It's just a habit I have. I'll probably have to prepare this at home to save some money yeah, but it just won't be the same. I still need to think and explore solutions, because twitter without a good latte is not twitter. And I like to feed my addictions the classy way.
Read. A lot. In japanese, english and portuguese. One of my future goals is to take a masters in translation. SO, hum, stricly necessary.
And despite I feel my japanese is getting and will get better, I feel my native portuguese is getting, well, harder. In the sense that it happens to me a lot, and I mean A LOT, of times forgetting the portuguese word and remembering the english or japanese counterpart. But anyway, nothing reading or watching won't solve.
I want to read japanese literature and academic books I previously talked about. As for portuguese, I don't know how I'm gonna do.
Japanese food. Real japanese food and not just fake chinese restaurant sushi.
Study chinese? I guess... I mean, I want to study. I should. But it's just too boring. I'm still studying, everyday, but I just can't focus. I tend to read every common JPN-CHN word in japanese. it's faster.
Kinda of funny, it once happened to me in a class, I was reading a text with our like boss teacher and I read this really easy word in Japanese. it's like, the classroom was silent, with me reading, and then suddenly the teacher starts staring at me like furious, she asks me to repeat, and I read the same way, without understanding what I had done wrong, until someone saves me and just reads the word in chinese. I had a mental block there! I couldn't read the word in a way other than japanese. At least that's how I felt.
This now happens but a lot more frequently. And whenever I needed to speak chinese (I actually met several times with a chinese teacher, in a week, for like two months, I actually don't know why, it was her who asked me, and I'm not that good of a portuguese teacher, nor that good of a chinese student) and wouldn't remember a word, I would just write the word in japanese and show it to my chinese teacher, and she would just laugh and give me the chinese word and make me repeat the whole sentence, but this time using chinese. Or, I'd just think of the japanese word and tried to read it with the chinese reading. I remember that happened with the japanese word "終了".
I seriously don't know what to do. I mean, I know what to do, but I also know I'm not motivated.
Japanese language profieciency tests! JLPT N1 is the bare minimum. I'd also like to try 漢字検定 and ビジネス language tests. I want to take N1 this December, as soon as possible. the possibility of taking it during summer is just scary.
2012年8月28日
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.
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)
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)
2012年8月24日
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。
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。
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