Carlie’s Japanese Progress – May 2008

May 2008 has been Major Burn Out Month. I discovered my problem, however – it wasn’t burnout from Japanese, rather it was a burnout from University. I will definitely be making a post on the pros and cons of learning a language in the class room. That being said, I tried to maintain my Japanese study, even if I didn’t want to touch a lot of what I had to do with a ten foot...

Reading Manga For Japanese Language Learning

One goal for many learning Japanese is to be able to enjoy manga in it’s original language. It is one of my goals as well. I have quite a few manga in Japanese, collected from many places, such as YesAsia.com, I have mostly used these as motivation tools – “look at these manga, I will read them!!” After about one year of studying Japanese, I tried. And surprised myself...

Carlie’s Japanese Progress – March 2008

We are well into April now, so it’s time for a March 2008 update on my Japanese progress. On the 18th of March I started up a log of how many hours I watch Japanese tv/movies. I record what I watched and whether I was watching with subs, without, or it was just on as background noise. From the 18th-30th I watched 15 hours of Japanese TV. I find that I don’t watch it for days, but...

Remembering the Kanji

Remembering the Kanji, a book by James W. Heisig, is just one of the many methods I use to… well, remember the Kanji. I will talk about other methods some other time, but for now, let’s just talk about this method. I think it is fantastic. There are, however, some things I don’t agree with, only because it doesn’t suit my learning style. You see, I like to do a bit of...