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Update of Mini-Goal: Japanese Speaking | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Making the most of time. Reading- An Approach to Language Learning →. Update of Mini-Goal: Japanese Speaking. So, a few weeks ago I set myself a mini-goal of speaking Japanese. This was a big thing for me as I always feel self-conscious and reasonably stupid when I speak – struggle wit. 1) Shadowing and noticing. I have a Japanese shadowing book which is basically a script of short exchanges with accompanying audio. I approached this in a couple of ways. 8217; so I...

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Hardships Unnumbered | Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime | Page 2

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Newer posts →. So, my reading plan then is to focus on target-reading books, original Italian books, books and audiobooks of texts I’m familiar with in English and also short articles from Rai Arte or Rai Letturatura. I don’t think I did so much reading when learning Japanese but this is partly due to not finding the texts I wanted or having to learn five hundred Kanji before I could even attempt them! By icyotsuba •. I’ve set myself a goal here to work throu...

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Month 2: Goals | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Italian – end of the 1st month. Update: Mini-Goal – Noticing Kanji →. So what will be my goals for the second month? Japanese Goals – spending time with the language. This is not going to be completing books – like last month. Instead it’s about skills and spending time developing these skills. It’s also about ‘time’. Writing Goal – 3 days for 1hr (intensive). Vocabulary and Kanji Goal- 5 days for 20mins (low to medium). Random pages in ‘Basic Kanji 1’. Interesting...

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Biscuit, brew and Japanese. How much studying can you do in 5 minutes? | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Taking those next steps…. Japanese – end of the 1st month →. Biscuit, brew and Japanese. How much studying can you do in 5 minutes? 8216;Practising is about quality not quantity. Some days I practise for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes’. Easy – tired but functioning. Write (copy) textbook sentences and annotate. Medium – able to put some thought into it. Read targeted text – uses Kanji I have learned and know. Hard – really focused and engaged.

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Reading- An Approach to Language Learning | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Update of Mini-Goal: Japanese Speaking. Reading- An Approach to Language Learning. I’ve recently joined a language group whose focus is to read ‘The Hunger Games’ in th. Benny Lewis – Reading. 2 Comparative Reading: Keep Two Books Side by Side. This strategy is more work than keep a dictionary to hand. Nonetheless, it is absolutely worth it. I call it comparative reading , It involves reading the original book and a translation at the same time. When reading books,...

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Taking those next steps… | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Biscuit, brew and Japanese. How much studying can you do in 5 minutes? Taking those next steps…. Here I’ve been noticing compound Kanji but I have forgotten the meaning of some parts of them. To help me further with this, next week I’ll be using a range of Kanji books (which I have a far few) to see which is the best to clarify such difficulties. I’ll review on this next week. So, what do you do about this? 1) Forgotten grammar points. 2) Confusion or uncertainty.

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Italian – end of the 1st month | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Japanese – end of the 1st month. Month 2: Goals →. Italian – end of the 1st month. My monthly goals for Italian were very different to my goals for Japanese. Japanese was heavily focused on grammar and Kanji. My focus for Italian was simply to enjoy reading and listening with the odd review of vocabulary. Certainly the schedule was less onerous. There was no real need to work out how many chapters I had to do each week or each day. By icyotsuba •. Japanese – ...

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Making the most of time | Hardships Unnumbered

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Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Update: Mini-Goal – Noticing Kanji. Update of Mini-Goal: Japanese Speaking →. Making the most of time. Over the past few months, as I’ve been trying to improve my classical-guitar playing, I’ve read numerous books about goal setting and routines to aid playing tricky pieces but also to maintain motivation – nothing makes you give up more than stuff you can’t do! Some of things I’ve learned for music, though, have also proved useful for me in language learning.

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Japanese – end of the 1st month | Hardships Unnumbered

https://hardshipsunnumbered.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/japanese-end-of-the-1st-month

Flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. Biscuit, brew and Japanese. How much studying can you do in 5 minutes? Italian – end of the 1st month →. Japanese – end of the 1st month. So, I’m at the end of my final week of the first month and thought it would be useful to reflect on my progress and think about what I’ll be doing during my second month. Goal – To complete ‘Basic Kanji’ Book 1. A) Characters I don’t recognise immediately. Knowing individual characters is useful but it’s important to be abl...