二十三番 － 変化を楽しみ、未来を楽しむ

最のブログを投稿してから久しぶりよね。
俺はそれ以来すごく忙しかった。

毎日、仕事や勉強や旅の準備があったけど着々と頑張っている!

最近旅の為に申請をしいる.ビザの申請とイギリスパスポートの
申請と国際免許証の申請をほんとに終わりたい！

日本に行くまでの３ヶ月間が楽しみ！

日本語の勉強に付いて沢山新しサイトを見付けた
でも既にコメントボックスを書った。：）

二十二番 － 日頃の行いの反対は何？？

最近俺の日本に住む予定が明確になった。北海道のランドスケープの会社でインターンシップに参加することができる。お金を十分貯まるのを待って来年一月日本に行きたい。まず熊本に行って彼女に会いたい。そしたら電車で南から北まで旅して東京それとも北海道で友達(多分また親！）に会ってスキーをしたい。旅の後でインターンシップを始めたい。じゃあ今からよく考えよう。今からよく考えなきゃならない。

日本語の勉強に付いて新しい面白いサイトを見つけた：

http://jrek.ta2o.net/
JReK lets you search for Japanese words and see how they are used in context within sentences on the web.

http://japanesemyway.com/tools/rikaichan-without-english-glosses/
This awesome person decided to rebuild rikaichan without English glosses. One more step away from English and I still get the ability to quickly see kanji readings. Awesome!

学校じゃ教えられない！
Funny drama about 5 guys that end up in an all girls school... sigh.. if only.

Takano Landscape Planning
The firm I will be doing an internship with. I will be studying this site a lot in the coming months!

Well the short more frequent post idea didn't happen but hey there's just to many other interesting things going on! So looks like I will just stick to short infrequent posts hehe...

And finally a beautiful statement from 松尾芭蕉 :

見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。

二十一番 － 小さいけれど甘い

題の意味を知らない。。しょうがないよ　

Ｙｅｐ　ｔｈａｔｓ　ｉｔ：

新しい一番サイト：　日本語ＲＡＰ歌詞

一番歌詞：　’深緑色の石炭たくさん笑いながら燃やす’　MICROPHONE PAGER - 夜行列車

Ｆｉｎ．

二十番 － 着々と進歩している

相変わらず早い一月一月を 過ごしている。　最近仕事が忙しくないからもっと勉強時間を増やしている。
週末はランゲージエクスチェンジ に行って３時間も日本語を話していた！勿論話しながら沢山間違っていたけどもっと練習したら早い進歩が期待できる。

Yeah so thats my new thing... starting the post in Japanese. Crazy new dynamc thinking that will boost my langauage ability by 300%...at least! Aside from this great advancement everything continues along quite smoothly also. Ran out of new and interesting stuff for a while due to going over my monthly down load limit and getting restricted to near dial-up speeds.

The last month I have been sampling tons of new music, to much to bother listing so I'm just going to go with my top 3:

1. "YES" Ryhme dentity - little
2. Dosmoccos - Champ road
3. The Adventures of Kohei Japan - Kohei Japan

Actually I think I came by all of these over a month ago but they are still my top three!.

That will do for now, I think I will try doing more frequent short posts for a while.

Oh one more thing... a great quote I found...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle

十九番 Never ending cool things

So things are still progressing and as the title suggests my aim is just to keep a list of never ending cool things to watch/listen/read in Japanese. As soon as I start running a bit dry or find myself repeating the same thing to much I can feel my interest dip slightly. I am definitely finding the more random cool stuff I have at my disposal the easier it is to learn. So some new cool stuff I have come by:

キル・ビル Vol.1
キル・ビル Vol.2
Not the most dialogue packed movie but still great!

http://www.excite.co.jp/News/odd/
Name says it all! This is a great way to get into reading the news!

Celeb to Binbo (J-DRAMA)
I thought this was be gonna be to cheesy a first but ended up watching all 12 episodes quite quickly. Full Japanese Subs from D-addicts also.

And here are some motivational quotes with completely non related hyper links just to add to the random fun of this post:

悔いのないように生きて以降

"お前　それじゃ　バッター　ボックスに　立ってんのに１回も振ってねえのと一緒だぞ。空振りしてもいいから思いっきり振ってかねえと。 なっ.

十八番 －Ｆｉｎｄｉｎｇ ｔｈｅ Ｂａｌａｎｃｅ

Recently Ive found myself quite busy with various project on the go aside from my Job and 日本語。 This has led to a continual struggle to find an appropriate balance of all the interests in my life. I'm not going to sit here and whine about how I have to much stuff to do, I just want to keep a record of my high intensity and low intensity periods of learning.

My Anki deck count is 484 cards, no where near my initial goal of adding 30 cards a day. Nevertheless I have been diligent in using what free time I have. And now I'm starting to have more free time I will try and ramp things up a notch!

Currently Sub2srs is my favourite tool for sentences.

With Sub2srs I first visit D-addicts Japenese subtitle list find and interesting drama. If I like it I will rip the audio and split it into 3 min segments for my mp3 player then another batch split using the sub timing. I then watch the drama again with anki, the subtitle text file and the list of audio clips open and grab what sentences I like as I watch and copy them into Anki. I prefer this than having to create a whole new deck or adding in potentially 100's of shit cards from the sub2srs rip.

Well that will do for now...

Oh and 秒速5センチメートルスクリプト continues very slowy. Bout 5 min in so far :D..

十七番 －Avoiding boredom

Progress is still continuing steadily however I have felt my first pangs of SRS boredom. This must be avoided at all costs! Ive been thinking about why I am feeling this and have concluded that I am spending to much time on smart.fm looking for sentences. While this is such a fast way to get sentences for Anki, I'm losing a bit of motivation because it is such a mechanical process. Im going to keep doing it but break it up with a new project aimed at giving something back rather than just continuosly using other peoples work.

And so begins... 秒速5センチメートルのスクリプト

I love this movie and cant find a script of it anywhere so the heck with, I'll write my own! Not sure how long this is gonna take me, but I'll format it all nicely in a word doc and post it up for others to use.

And now for a lil' bit of 日本語

俺の金曜日の夜

仕事が終わってから奈央子さんのパーティに行った。そのパーティはイタリアのレストランで行われて皆さんにった。食べ物と雰囲気すごく良かったな！その後たちはTattersals Clubに行ってカクテルを飲んだ。夜は楽しかった！


じゃあもういいから。。、じゃね　

十六番 ー 何？？？？？？？？？？？？

Not much to say I think, just an update to try and keep some record of my progress.
Have focused solely on using Anki for SRS after finding the site http://smart.fm/home. Awesome site with a huge range of 例文 which usually have accompanying audio!

My deck is up to about 180 card so far and progress as usual is not going as well as planned. I can thank ridiculous work hours for that, but hey thats life. Hopefully next month will yield better results!

Aside from the SRS I have managed to find another person for langauge exchange and hopefully more in the coming months.

So the game plan has been changing as expected. Basically just to find ways to be as efficient as possible. e.g using scripts and text that is copy and pasteable into Anki. The whole mp3split thing seems like it may be to time consuming to be worthwhile , need to still play with it more though.

hmmm.. what a boring post, how can I make this more exciting...何もないで。。：ｐ

十五番 －RTK１ が終わった！

Its been a long time coming but finally I have finished RTK1! Didn't quite get there before my Japan trip but it allllllll good! Im back with a kick ass dictionary and a huge amount of DVDs and comics to get through. So what does a finished 2042 漢字 look like? Well it looks a little like this:

Yes its pretty awesome... well the feeling is... maybe not the picture. Its also a weird feeling of where to start next, so many options and different learning material out there! So I will now attempt to lay down a bit of a loose game plan for the next few months:

Reading / Writing: Build up input in Khatzumemo

1. Gather example sentences first based on simple language groups: Verbs, Adverbs, Adjective, nouns. Good starting point: www.studyjapanese.org
2. Gather sentences based on particles.
3. Gather sentences from comics (Primarily Death Note)

Talking: Language exchange and friends

1. Attend Auspeak Language exchange meetups
2. Skype
3. www.mylanguageexchange.com
   

Listening: Music and Movies made into Anki flashcards

1. Experiment with Mp3 Split and Sub2srs to create flash cards with text and sound from favourite music and movies.
   

映画リスト

• 秒速5センチメートル
• ザ・マジックアワー
• 舞妓Haaan！
• タイガー&ドラゴン（ドラマ）

　　音楽リスト

• リップスライム　
• Soffet
• 山崎 まさよし

Well looks like there plenty to keep me occupied considering all the tangents of interest that I will inevitably veer off into while making my through all of the above! Exciting times ahead..how to finish this post? hmmm... how about the first of many aforementioned tangents:

Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉)

日々旅にして、旅を住処とす

十四番 － 一ヶ月 残る

Well what a month of setbacks, both good and bad! Still I have now made it to 1500 leaving 1 month to achieve my goal of finishing Heisig Vol 1 before I go to Japan. Only made it through 400 the last month due to holidays (the good), sickness and working overtime (the bad). But enough excuses, I will prevail!
Oh and another interesting point I found out over the last month: Don't use noise cancelling head phones to listen to Japanese at work, it may really piss of your boss! hehe. No I didn't lose my Job but not sure if / when I will be able to use head phones at work again.

So to keep with the current trend another great Kanji poster pic: 1500 Wohoooo :D



And finally some Japanese ripped from one of my favourite animes: 秒速５センチメートル,

（アカリ）
　
ねえ

秒速５ｾﾝﾁなんだって

（タカキ）

えっ　何？

（アカリ）

桜の花の落ちるｽﾋﾟｰﾄﾞ
秒速５ｾﾝﾁﾒｰﾄﾙ

（タカキ）

うん

アカリそういうこと
よく知ってるよね

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