I'm scheduling a help-me-please meeting with my teacher, and I might pursue tutoring, too, but I will also definitely keep your offer in mind. I really appreciate it. ♥
I did super great the first semester of Japanese. Then second semester ate my soul.
Now in Chinese, I've had these moments. I honestly should have failed Chinese last semester, but apparently the teachers talked and gave me a B. Which is bad, because I feel like I'm barely scraping along this semester regardless of when my homework is done.
Had to get that out too. Damn languages! I wish like... that was all we had to study/worry about. I think it would make learning it so much easier.
I kind-of did the same thing--like, I definitely fell behind second semester. But I also pulled off a B- in the class: and, like, while I would like a higher grade, I don't feel like...I mean, if I knew enough to get a B- last semester, I don't know I know like NOTHING now.
I feel like I'm barely scraping along this semester regardless of when my homework is done. I can empathize. Like...the past week or so I've been a total space cadet about this class, and forgot to do a couple assignments, but before that, I was super on top of it. And I just feel like I can't keep anything in my head.
Yeah. Well, and...I think languages are something you have to ENJOY to be good at? And I...an not enjoying this, this semester.
Keep in mind that Japanese is supposedly one of the toughest languages out there to learn. I'm not saying that in a nasty, "you should have known" way, I mean that you're not exceptionally thick in having a lot of trouble with it. It gets exponentially harder after the beginning. Don't be too hard on yourself.
I...logically know that? But I also...prior to this would have said that I am usually really good at languages. And it's frustrating as hell to see other kids in the class do this so easily--and part of me is left going, if the kid who visits his grandparents in Japan every year and is partially-to-mostly fluent is the one who has all this stuff down, maybe this class is too accelerated for someone who has only had two prior semester of formal class? But that kid's NOT the only one who knows his shit. Most kids in the class seem to know their shit. Better than I know mine, anyway. And...I'm actually just kind-of rambling, now.
(I also cannot really ever picture you being nasty about something like this XD ♥)
Sorry class is giving you hell. :-( I studied German in college, and let me tell you, I know how languages can make you feel stupid and miserable. After easy peasy high school classes, it was harder than I ever could have imagined. <3
Yeah, German is definitely a pretty tough language. I think what you're saying is why languages can make a person feel so stupid; I sometimes felt like a total moron when I stopped to think, "Millions of people can do this perfectly with no effort at all." Eek!
Thank you bb. I appreciate it. I just...feel like it SHOULDN'T be this hard. But, whatever. Either I'll feel better as this semester goes on, or...I won't. I just have to keep at it for now.
Thanks babes ♥ I hope so. Like...where I am now, I honestly don't know that I will be taking any more Japanese. But we'll see. It'll happen. Something will happen. I will or I won't. You know? I just have to keep it together for this semester. And go from there.
(It also makes me really happy to see people use my icons *glow*)
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I'm scheduling a help-me-please meeting with my teacher, and I might pursue tutoring, too, but I will also definitely keep your offer in mind. I really appreciate it. ♥
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Now in Chinese, I've had these moments. I honestly should have failed Chinese last semester, but apparently the teachers talked and gave me a B. Which is bad, because I feel like I'm barely scraping along this semester regardless of when my homework is done.
Had to get that out too. Damn languages! I wish like... that was all we had to study/worry about. I think it would make learning it so much easier.
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But I also pulled off a B- in the class: and, like, while I would like a higher grade, I don't feel like...I mean, if I knew enough to get a B- last semester, I don't know I know like NOTHING now.
I feel like I'm barely scraping along this semester regardless of when my homework is done.
I can empathize. Like...the past week or so I've been a total space cadet about this class, and forgot to do a couple assignments, but before that, I was super on top of it. And I just feel like I can't keep anything in my head.
Yeah. Well, and...I think languages are something you have to ENJOY to be good at? And I...an not enjoying this, this semester.
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But that kid's NOT the only one who knows his shit. Most kids in the class seem to know their shit. Better than I know mine, anyway. And...I'm actually just kind-of rambling, now.
(I also cannot really ever picture you being nasty about something like this XD ♥)
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But, whatever. Either I'll feel better as this semester goes on, or...I won't. I just have to keep at it for now.
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I hope so. Like...where I am now, I honestly don't know that I will be taking any more Japanese.
But we'll see. It'll happen. Something will happen. I will or I won't. You know?
I just have to keep it together for this semester. And go from there.
(It also makes me really happy to see people use my icons *glow*)
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