Any tips how to motivate myself? :) - Feed Post by Domen
Any tips how to motivate myself? :)
posted by Domen
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Well, why do you want to learn Japanese? Maybe focus on your goals will help. When I become unmotivated I chat with people here and do a challenge or two. Goodluck!
Well, I simply love japanese language. It's sounds really awesome. My progress is going pretty well, but I have a habbit of doing thing only for few days. Some people suggested anime? Should I try? :)- Watashi wa otaku desu... I love anime even though Im too old for it. You have to be careful though because sometimes the fan subs dont get the translations just right. On the up side as you start learning you can start pointing out when there is an error and it feels kinda cool to be able to do that.
That's for damn sure!! You MUST try and inevitably become an aficionado, like most of us here ;)
Personally, it's because of anime that i fell in love with japanese and it's anime that keep my motivation on fire...- Thanks guys! My friends suggested some titles and I'm going to watch them when I'm not studying japanese. This website is really great and people are nice too. すごい ^^
- dito but its hard when all the characters are now a decade younger than me lol I tend to try to pretend they are all in college and not grade school lol. I also listen to J-POP and J-Rock consistently to help out. Live action Japanese shows and movies can be difficult to watch especially if your more used to subdued American TV.
- oh yeah this site has helped a lot and I can always depend on Mdyrius senpai to ask questions so its very cool
- Sonna koto iuna yo ^^, hohosomesaseagatte... :P
Hoka no kurasumeetotachi mo tayori ni nareru ze :) - LOL Medyrius thats not fair now I have to go look up everything you said lol were beginners remember lol Your such a tease LOL
- Ah gomen gomen :P
I like speaking like Kon, a stuffed animal character in Bleach.
Know him?
When I have the words in mind I just can't resist ^^ - lol Kon lol Bleach is actually one of my least favorite animes not because of the story but because of its length its so many episodes now I cant catch up I stopped watching at episode 104 lol it would take me forever to catch up on that one lol.
- I had the same problem with bleach and One Piece ^^, I didn't want to watch cuz I had waited too long for it and had like 500+ episodes to catch up for each of them :S
Yet, I started watching bleach about 5 months ago but I'm still not up to date (but I'm close now)
I think it's really worth watching though, it's so fun! ^^
- The coolest part was when I went to an anime convention and was able to figure out the numbers on the back of the Bleach costumes... that was cool. Sorry about cluttering your comments Domen.
- Oh damn! you're right, now Domen's gonna receive a bunch of notifications... Yakkai na koto...
+1 with this :P
Consider it a welcome gift from us, Domen-kun ;) - /giggle yes welcome Domenkun hope you stay around and talk about anime and nihongo with us ;)
- I will get my revange, for that spamming! I hope I know enough vocabulary to challenge you soon, Saiya! And you Medyrius, someday I will take your throne. Haha, don't worry about notifications. I like them. Talk to you soon, I need to complete next chapter. ^^
- A quick question. Do I have to complete kanji lvl 1 to unlock vocabulary lvl 2? Or should I just cheat and change 1 in URL to 2. >:D
- No actually, you can ignore kanji if you want... Your to-do tab for vocab will always point to the next chapter no matter the level ;)
- Well, I had to be lvl 2 to do a test in vocabulary lvl 2. So I gained 4100xp through practice. This is really fun, I learnt so much today. :)
- That's good ;) now the challenge is to remember it next month :P
Ganbare!! - /giggle hope I can win your challenge my stats are starting to embarrass me LOL.
get a japanese girlfriend. XD- lol Layne_kun that is hysterical and yet soo true haha
- ^ You said it, Saiya! XD but I think it's the most effective way! *wink wink* You know, japanese women love foreigners! w
- Oh yeah! That would be awesome. But I think there are like 20 japanese people in my whole country. Most of them are male and like 10 years older than me. LOL :D
Oh, well... Maybe Japan is my next destination. :) - ^businessmen, you say?XD oh well, dude there are language exchange websites here and I know that japanese women who are looking for male companions or boyfriends.ww try your luck online if you can't go to japan yet XD Japan is also my next destination. :3 On the serious side regarding your motivation, If you have certain goals that requires learning Japanese [ex. getting a scholarship in Jp, being an exchange student, working or living in Japan, meeting friends] that will surely drive you to learn more. Furthermore, make Japanese friends, exchange languages, and just have fun! :Db
- Thanks for the tips! I made a interpals profile. A lot of japanese people there. :)
- Yes, you're welcome! That's a great start! Good luck, Domen! :Db
- Whats interpals?
- Interpals is website, where you can create your profile and meet people around the world. There is somekind of a language exchange "system" on it too. For example you can help some japanese dude with his english and he will help you will your japanese. :)
- oh very cool I will check it out when I get home, Im at work atm... suposed to be working but Im easily distracted today LOL.
- Saiya!! ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Epic smiley is epic. Need to say more? Well, at least you are not playing games and you are doing something productive. Haha :D - /giggle I am trying but youtube and JCJP is sooo distracting right now... Its saturday and Im at work /whine.
- You have this /commands from mmorpgs, right? I wanted to type /reroll work, but I'm not sure if you have this command implented at the moment. So /dance will do. haha :D
- lol wonderful, yes I am well trained now to add the / before emotions now lol. Sorry played one too many mmos in my day and will prolly start again when Guild Wars comes out. The only way I seem to be able to talk to people is online, Im too shy in person to make friends so I always resort to playing online games to have social contact.
- Don't worry, keep /cmds, it's awesome! I love it. :D
No, you didn't say guild wars 2. This game will be the best mmorpg ever made. It comes out on 28th august!! All my friends will be playing it, except me, because I have to dedicate to japanese lang only. Unlike you, I can't do both.
So why not hang out with shy people like you? I would love to hang out with you, because you seem like a really awesome person, but I'm too far away. So we will make our own party here on japaneseclass. Loot set to free for all, ofc. :D - ROFLMAO loot se to free for all hahaha. Yeah Guild Wars 2 looks amazing. I dont rly have time for an mmo either since Im working and will hopefully be in school in september but I will prolly get it just for that social aspect because the problem with us shy people is we are shy and dont talk to other people including other shy people /giggle. So you are really from Slovenia? What is it like there? Ive never been there but I have traveled quite a bit. Ive been to Germany, Austria, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Jamaica, Mexico, and Grand Cayman.
- I just looked at google maps... Im American so Im geographically challenged lol. Looks like I was really close to Slovenia thats really cool. To bad I didnt get the chance to visit.
- When you ask slovenian ppl what is Slovenia like, they will tell you that it's freakin unique, great and it has so many beautiful places and stuff. But if you ask me, it's just a really small country and there is nothing really special about it. Basically I think, we kinda got americanizated. There are bad and good results because of this. We are kinda losing our own culture, because we like USA things (movies, tv series, books etc), but because of that like 80% of young slovenian people speaks english. :)
If you travel nearbly again (Austria or Italy), visit me, I'm not that far away. :)
- Yeah Im so stealing that word Amerianizated I love it and its so true. Its honestly sad because we dont rly like our own culture/politics most of the time but we feel powerless to change it... little known factoid about Americans lol. It will be a long time before I get to travel again Im still paying off the last trip /giggle. But if Im ever over there you can play tour guide for awhile ;)
- "americanizated" did I just made up a new word? Haha :D
I hope you understood. Don't worry I'm geographically challenged too. This year, I finished geography classes for my whole life. So happy. YAY! - Well, I think we need our own chat box on this website. We keep spamming other people who posted here. :P
It was nice talking to you. Everyday I like this website more and more. Awesome RPG like learning and awesome people who are actually nice. And I use word awesome too much, because it's so awesome. Haha.. I got to go now. See you soon. ;) - oh oops yeah Medyrioussenpai and I are bad about spamming ppl lol.
- I'm the one who got spammed this time... >_<
But I found it fun reviewing your recent conversation ^^ - haha sry medyrius senpai
