A little place for learning languages
By thomas on Oct 23, 2007 in Project Mayhem | 11 Comments
I announced in the inaugural Project Mayhem post that I would be studying Fight Club, in Japanese, in order to work on my embarrassingly insufficient Japanese listening skills. Japanese Fight Club is pretty difficult for my level. I’d estimate that 50% of the vocabulary that I ran into in the first 3 scenes was unfamiliar. [...]
By thomas on Oct 18, 2007 in Japanese | 17 Comments
The Japanese dictionary order is a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra, wa, n. I’ve been studying Japanese for a long time, but it wasn’t until recently that I learned the above dictionary order for the Japanese syllabary. The main reason for this is that I mostly use an electronic dictionary to look [...]
By thomas on Oct 15, 2007 in Project Mayhem | 14 Comments
A few posts ago I mentioned that I had a new project to target my deficient Japanese listening comprehension skills. I stated that I was going to watch one of my favorite movies one scene at a time, over and over again, in dubbed Japanese. I ended the post with the first line of the [...]
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