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lapsusxlinguae

[expansive hand gestures]

Mar 18, 2010 01:45

I feel like a broken record, reiterating my perpetual lousiness at keeping up with things and how I hate myself for it (and promising to keep up and then... not), but one quick thing that I've been flailing over since I found it a half hour ago: here.

wow, that made me laugh. this guy is unbelievable!
and then think, seriously, who does that? who ( Read more... )

tarheel pride, imagine that, asdlkf;awierajl, japanis, wtf

Comments 5

augustfai March 18 2010, 21:18:35 UTC

point numero uno: i hate you lots for taking the nabokov class, because i saw a flyer for it AFTER THE ADD DATE and it was just hanging all innocently on the wall on some board in dey hall, and i never go into dey because i have no reason/purpose there. and i flipped out, because lolita is my favorite novel ever ever ever. so yeah. jealousy. hopefully they offer it next spring? OH I WON'T BE HERE NEXT SPRING, CROSSING MY FINGERS, WHICH LEADS US TO

point numero dos: study abroad. where are you going? i am trying for spring 2011, nanzan. and oh girl, you will improve if you go. it will be inevitable. you will be so mad at the language barrier that you will just absorb absorb absorb and pick things up and you won't even realize it until you've left and you're like, oh hey, i know that, in a roundabout way. i guarantee it.

point numero tres: linguistic structure of japanese.....why. just why. i'm crying for you.

lapsusxlinguae March 22 2010, 05:32:35 UTC

1: the nabokov class is so different from any other class I've taken here so far. I am really enjoying it; like, it surprises me every time I go to class and think gosh, I like this! it's the first time it's been taught, so it might be offered again sooner than next fall? but seriously, I had a casual interest in nabokov because of lolita before this class, but now I might just love the guy.

2: I am (if accepted) going to ICU in mitaka this fall. I wanted to do nanzan but it was pretty competitive for fall, and I was afraid that if waited til spring again I would wuss out. and I am terrified and so hopeful asdhfdajksdg;jakg but I'm gonna do it! regardless of how unprepared I feel.

3: yeah, dunno. the thinking behind that was, I like japanese; I like linguistics: two great tastes that taste great together? just, not so much.

elffingqueen March 18 2010, 23:01:29 UTC

;;___;; *GLOMPS*

bitter about my clumsy attempts to improve, doubtful at my ability to ever become proficient, much less fluent, and unsure that I will continue to enjoy it enough to tryYesterday I actually started crying because of a stupid Japanese essay I got back. It was full of red notes and there was a HUGE question mark on the second page. I think that is the worst nightmare of anyone studying languages as their major -to be completely NOT understood. It's like, WTF. I'm only a first year student and I'm totally incapable of producing text. That feels superbly encouraging (not) and when I add the fact I got the third-worst grade in our class on my kanji test last week to that, I don't really have NO energy whatsoever to study that stupid language. I'd love to be fluent, and every time I can translate something, even if it is just a little bit, it makes me ridiculously happy ( ... )

lapsusxlinguae March 22 2010, 05:30:40 UTC

[HUGS] it's good to hear from you!

yes, yes it completely is the worst, and japanese is so different from any language I've studied before for this long. sometimes I think like it's never going to stick; every time I have to translate to japanese I feel like unsure of everything and that I have to look up every single word.

I know exactly how you feel; the last few months have really shaken my confidence in that before I'd never much doubted that becoming fluent was something I could do. now I'm not sure at all, but since I've gotten this far it seems a shame to quit, you know?
it's grueling and slow, but if you want it bad enough then you'll get it eventually, right? just have to keep trying.

good luck to you!! don't get discouraged; we can always complain about our troubles together, haha

elffingqueen March 23 2010, 19:54:26 UTC

Sometimes.... I think Japanese is superbly easy, because pronouncing it is similar to Finnish, and there are even some similar sentence structures (some scholars say Finnish and Japanese are related to each other). HOWEVER. Then come the days when I get even the easiest of sentences wrong -and of course, in those days sensei wants me to do some talking in the class. Haha, she has seen my face red so many times that I don't understand why she bothers asking anymore :'DD ( ... )