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Posted On: Apr 21, 2012 11:52:02 GMT -5
Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on Apr 21, 2012 11:52:02 GMT -5
Def slow.
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Posted On: Apr 25, 2012 19:10:15 GMT -5
Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 25, 2012 19:10:15 GMT -5
What's the hardest part of language for you guys?
My weakness is speaking. I speak correctly (and with a good accent, I've been told... I'd hope so, considering how I essentially only listen to Greek music nowadays), but I'm exceptionally slow because I have to conjugate in my head. Greek has a rather annoying conjugation system that both changes the placement of the stress and the suffix, depending on the tense (i.e., "agapPO" is "I love, "agaPIEme" "I am loved," "aGApisa" "I loved," "agaPOUsa" "I was loving," "agaPIthika" "I was loved," "agaPIOmoun" "I was being loved," etc, etc.).
My writing ability far, far, far outstrips my speaking ability. Woe.
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Posted On: Apr 25, 2012 22:43:10 GMT -5
Post by Umbra on Apr 25, 2012 22:43:10 GMT -5
I'm okay with speaking. I have the same problem with having to conjugate words in my head, but my pronunciation is at least good enough.
I'm fairly decent with grammar. I don't think I'd be able to tutor a pier if I didn't have a basic understanding of Japanese grammar.
I struggle a bit with vocabulary. I guess I'm just not good at remembering words. But, my struggle with this is nothing compared to...
Kanji. Kanji. Kanji. There are just so many of them (You need to know around 2,000 kanji to read the Code of Japan). Each have their own meaning, different pronunciations (onyomi/kunyomi), a stroke order to write them, and are combined with other kanji to make compounds that form a different pronunciation.
And another thing about Kanji, they are so easy to forget! Sometimes, pictographs aren't enough, which is why there is a method of using imaginative memory to remember kanji (which still requires a lot of effort.)
The hardest part of Japanese period.
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Posted On: Apr 28, 2012 21:24:45 GMT -5
Post by AokiShizuku on Apr 28, 2012 21:24:45 GMT -5
英語分かりません。(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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Posted On: Apr 28, 2012 22:06:25 GMT -5
Post by supersonic1453 on Apr 28, 2012 22:06:25 GMT -5
You're missing a particle.
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Posted On: Apr 30, 2012 12:32:28 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 12:32:28 GMT -5
Vocabulary
I'm very weak at Vocabulary.....sometimes I just can't find the right words...
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Posted On: Oct 17, 2012 10:53:25 GMT -5
Post by sukotsuto on Oct 17, 2012 10:53:25 GMT -5
To those who are good in Japanese or Spanish, any of you mind tutoring me sometime, via skype or something? I'm doing well in both classes thus far, and it's a trip starting to understand conversations I overhear. As for kanji, kanji is pretty much abstract art. With that said, with whatever few kanji I know, I love writing them, and I now do this thing where I use a kanji character as a composition for a sketch, then I illustrate what it means, which helps me remember what the character means.
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Posted On: Oct 17, 2012 12:13:46 GMT -5
Post by Youngster Joey on Oct 17, 2012 12:13:46 GMT -5
I wish I had continued with Spanish.
Oh, well, it's not like I don't have 60 years left of my life to learn it.
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Posted On: Oct 18, 2012 23:25:28 GMT -5
Post by Umbra on Oct 18, 2012 23:25:28 GMT -5
Since I had started my second-year Japanese class, I can say I've felt the blow of what it's like not to study at all during a summer break. I think my known kanji and vocabulary have been cut in half (maybe more) of what I had known before summer break. This was fuel for my pessimism toward learning Japanese not too long ago, but I've started to finally realize that learning a language should be a journey, not a set destination that you have to arrive at in a day. As for kanji, kanji is pretty much abstract art. With that said, with whatever few kanji I know, I love writing them, and I now do this thing where I use a kanji character as a composition for a sketch, then I illustrate what it means, which helps me remember what the character means. I can see you being really good at kanji calligraphy.
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