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snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
October 10 2008 09:51 GMT
#1
My final japanese exam is in 1hour and 15minutes. Hopefully it'll be the last one of my life. My brain is so stuffed with chinese characters it hurts. Man, please just let me pass this test so I can forget all this crap. Chinese characters wtfffffff, I so goddamn hate them.
You ever noticed that for some kanji you need like 10 sec to memorize and others I learn for 5 hours and still can't remember them. It just makes no sense.

I studied grammar and vocab for like 5 minutes, it's like sooo easy.

Looking forward to drinking my brains out tonight and wiping out all the kanji filth from my memory forever!

*
@riotsnowbird
DeLoAdEr
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Japan527 Posts
October 10 2008 10:16 GMT
#2
頑張って !
Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
October 10 2008 10:19 GMT
#3
Good luck snowbird
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haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
October 10 2008 10:20 GMT
#4
When you feel weak and want to give up. Just think: your father and your father's father had it worse.

Cheers

Nah seriously. I probably shouldn't talk because I'm a Chink but Kanjis are the easiest in the world. All you need to do is recognize the pattern like what goes with what to make that character. why would it go with that to make that character. like

男 . The top bit means a farm field, the bottom bit means power or strength, because you need strength to plow the field, you need a male thus 男 means MAN.

Then just repeatedly write the character 20 times then forget about it. When you need to use it and you can't remember it, find it and write it 20 times again. That's how Chinks learned it and we have to learn like 8000 before high school ~_~
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grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
October 10 2008 10:24 GMT
#5
Good luck!

In my Japanese class we had an exam on Swedish grammar, apparently we need it to be able to translate properly or whatever, and i failed HARD! how shitty is that, might not be able to advance to the C course because i failed SWEDISH grammar of all things.

がんばれ!
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6641 Posts
October 10 2008 10:55 GMT
#6
This is why I haven't bothered learning another language and have no real intention of doing so.
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Jizz
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Australia224 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-10 11:55:42
October 10 2008 11:55 GMT
#7
I can speak nightelf.

Ishnu' allah. balladash dallah nah
I made this account before i knew what the name meant. I just thought it sounded coooool
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6641 Posts
October 10 2008 12:02 GMT
#8
I didn't know nightelfs worshiped Allah
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JudgeMathis
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Cuba1286 Posts
October 10 2008 12:05 GMT
#9
On October 10 2008 21:02 jello_biafra wrote:
I didn't know nightelfs worshiped Allah

No news here!
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29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
October 10 2008 12:26 GMT
#10
if you're korean, of course it's easy to memorize grammar. good luck to you, though. if you're serious about japanese, then kanji is definitely important.
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kaman_gom
Profile Joined October 2008
Korea (South)10 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-10 13:22:08
October 10 2008 13:21 GMT
#11
rofl, Chinese characters are very necessary for the Japanese language.
dogen
Profile Joined June 2007
Belgium108 Posts
October 10 2008 13:30 GMT
#12
I hear you man, I take a Japanese class myself and it's a fucking hardship really.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
October 10 2008 13:41 GMT
#13
Kanji and Hanji are both stupid relics of the past. It's like QWERTY^50000. No one needs that crap anymore.
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thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
October 10 2008 14:09 GMT
#14
On October 10 2008 19:20 haduken wrote:

Nah seriously. I probably shouldn't talk because I'm a Chink but Kanjis are the easiest in the world. All you need to do is recognize the pattern like what goes with what to make that character. why would it go with that to make that character. like


If you learned it when your were little (like 5-13) it's probably a lot easier because your brain is more open to language development. So if you went to Chinese school or the like when you were little Kanji's going to be really easy for you to remember. Likewise, it's much more difficult to learn a language after your brain has finished developing.
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BlackStar
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Netherlands3029 Posts
October 10 2008 15:11 GMT
#15
It's much easier to read if you use a language with something like kanji.
Phrogs!
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Japan521 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-10 16:05:02
October 10 2008 15:48 GMT
#16
頑張れ~!
If you want to chat in Japanese or whatever so you can practice I'm here^^
Shauni
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
4077 Posts
October 10 2008 15:57 GMT
#17
It took me four years of failed courses but now I realized I love the japanese language .

It sounds so beautiful and the writing is more artistic than the western way of writing.
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Zuries
Profile Joined May 2008
United Kingdom156 Posts
October 10 2008 16:33 GMT
#18
On October 10 2008 22:30 dogen wrote:
I hear you man, I take a Japanese class myself and it's a fucking hardship really.



Pitcairn.. ROFL...

you arn't from Pitcairn >.<
FUCK SALT
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
October 10 2008 17:03 GMT
#19
Pffft.

If your japanese class is anything like my friends, I wish my chinese class were like that.
Yeah you gotta learn chinese characters but jeez reading (TONES) and writing (so many different meanings and characters for the same pinyin) is a fucking tumor.

With that said, hope you do well on your exam~
ulszz
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Jamaica1787 Posts
October 10 2008 17:58 GMT
#20
gl bro
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
October 10 2008 18:45 GMT
#21
gl. You're lucky in that you find the grammar easy- that seems to (still) be the hardest part for me.
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snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
October 11 2008 10:55 GMT
#22
ok so i did the test. i give myself 60% chance of passing.

funny thing is, i did pretty well on the kanji part but messed up at some other stuff i think haha.
@riotsnowbird
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
October 12 2008 23:11 GMT
#23
That's good to hear heh, ironically for me, a Chinese, the kanji ends up being the hardest for me and grammar/vocab easy. I blame the fact that all I do to study for Japanese is to read novels rather than practice how to actually write those damned words :p
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