Three Weeks of Uni Left

I haven’t been posting much, but I’m sure you understand, I only have three weeks of uni left! Well, three weeks of classes then some exams. After that, of course, I have my Japan trip! So I’m very busy but also very excited. It also means that I’m only three weeks away from finishing Japanese for Everyone. I’ll write a full review when I’m done. ...

Three Ways to Overcome Burn Out

When I do something, I usually do it to extremes until I can no long stand to do it any more. For instance, when I was younger I stamp collected to death. All my spare time was devoted to collecting stamps until I could do it no longer – I’m not sure what happened to that awesome stamp collection, now I wish I still had it, but I haven’t looked at a stamp that way in many...

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...

An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese: First Impressions

An Integrated Approach To Intermediate Japanese by Akira Miura and Naomi Hanaoka McGloin I recently borrowed this book out from my University library, and after having it for two weeks, I decided to buy this as the next step in my Japanese studies. I’m half way through Japanese for Everyone, and I find this book right for my level. This actually makes me more impressed with Japanese For...

New Anki File

I’ve started a new anki file. I let the one go too long that the spaced repetition was messed up, and it had such a huge workload as so many cards had expired – I would have never gotten to new cards. Plus, a fresh start is refreshing! So I’ve started again. I picked out a whole heap of words I was interested in reviewing. Stuff like 付き合う. I look up the word in my...