Ohisashiburi
It has been a little while hasn’t it? I’ve come to realize that I’m a lot less “plugged in” then I used to be back in the high school days. I have no idea how I wrote on my xanga page 4-5 times a week back in the day. On a random note: While I was thinking of what to write for this post my roommate knocked on my door asking for some help with his english homework. I was so concentrated on what I was going to write here that I could barely form a sentence in Japanese. But then slowly it came back as I started to think in Japanese again. This learning language stuff is really all about how often you are exposed to it in a day. Which is why it is great to have a roommate from Korean who doesn’t speak english. On that note, I really think I need to be upping my Japanese exposure even more than I am already. Which basically just means cutting back on the english whenever possible in terms of speaking and receiving (including thinking in my head).
But anyways, I’m sure you are all quite ticked with me for not putting anything up in the last few weeks. I’m kinda upset about it myself, but my days have been all but long and carefree since I got here. I haven’t really settled into my usual rhythm of doing things yet, despite it being a month and a bit since I got here. Although, I do think that I’m slowly finding a good pattern once again. So hopefully that will allow me to post more regularly. I still haven’t really thought about what to do for my next YT video. But I should that about that soon, as well.
Just letting you all know that I’m alive and well. I’m actually exhausted right now and I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow, so I need to get some sleep. Tomorrow I’m meeting up with Hiko, which should be good fun. So I needs to gets me some rest.
Update again on the weekend. I swears!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Good to know that you are still kickin’. But wait, if your roommate was asking for help with his English homework, why did you need to jump back into Japanese mode?
October 24th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Good you updated, I thought you were dead, haha
October 24th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Finally an update! I’m glad you’re uber busy and enjoying yourself!! *thumbs up*
October 26th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
i guess learning a language is really hard after all
maybe it depends on interest, i dunno. although i agree on the exposure part.
anyways, hope life is doing well for you, and that you had an interesting time with Hiko.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
You know, if your Japanese is quite good what a lot of my friends do is listening to Japanese music. Not simply any song, but song that they have gone through and learn, and then look for new ones to repeat the all process all over again.
I think it can be fun other than helpful.