Update: I am not sure if I will be able to get an internet connection in France. Thus this may be the last post for a few days. Apologies!
I know this isn’t technically anything to do with Japan, but as it’s been a really long time since I went snowboarding, I knew once my family announced they were planning to head off to one of Europe’s premier ski resorts that I should sneak into the back of the car and get myself some quality snow.
I’m leaving tomorrow and will return on March 29th, which is my birthday! There’s nothing I love more than sitting in a car for 11 hours to celebrate my 20th, but that can’t be avoided. The six days immidiatly preceding that will totally make up for it anyway.
I am planning to take my camera and laptop with me, and I will try to make some interesting posts about French culture and so on. Failing that, I’ll just take pretty pictures and waffle on about them. I had an email asking why I never upload pictures to Flickr – I will, I’ve just been stuck at home revising, so there’s nothing to post yet. Yuck.
In other news, as I just said, I’ve been revising as I have yet another exam once I head back to university in two weeks or so – Semester 2 midterms. Although we’ve only done about 5-6 weeks of content it’s still promising to be a difficult exam, andsome of the grammar points we’ve covered like ために, the volitional form & ところ give me a horrible headaches when I think about them, so I think some more hard work is needed there, as usual. Kanji is still a big horrible problem and I hate it and plan to push it out of a window in the future, but at least I can take my textbook with me to France to ruin yet another holiday with stroke orders, Chinese readings and faded lines.
That’s about it for exciting news, then. Blogwise, I’m tuning up the archives to make them easier to use, as a big list of months is pretty useless, and I’ll probably fiddle with the look a bit. That’s about it, though. No more exciting news. Oh, apart from that there’s only 88 more days until I head to Japan! Yahoo!
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Ugh. I learned (and hated) volitional form last semester. I don’t seem to ever really use it in my Japanese class either (maybe it’s because we only rarely speak casually). As for Kanji, only solution to learning it is, unfortunately, repetition. Your Japanese program seems pretty hardcore; how many new ones (Kanji) are you assigned every week/2weeks/month?
Nagix: Between 20 and 35 a week :( When you include all the readings and combinations it’s a horrible amount to memorise. Oh well :( As for volitional, thinking of it as plain ましょう finally got it into my head, but doing it at full speed just takes lots, and lots, of practice.
URGH.
Wow… 20-35 a week? I only get like 15-17. How do you study them? How much time per day do you spend on it?
Nagix: I should spend about an hour a week… I actually spend way less. It’s revision holidays right now though so once I get back from France it’ll be 3-4 hours a day. Yuck.