One more week!

Just one more week on my intensive calculus and physic studies. Japanese and Anki reviews are stopped. If I pass next week, I need to study more one month for the second and final stage.

頑張ります！

Starting intensive Calculus and Physics studies!

Next month I’m going to take a test to transfer to other university. The reason is I’m not happy with the situation of my current university.

Tomorrow an intensive online course will start. I will watch the lessons from my own house on the morning. I think I can learn it efficiently with self-studies, but no time for it. Now I need to learn not the calculus, not the physics, but how to pass the test. You know the diference.

I’m thinking about creating a new blog, with my own domain, a new name (not a japanese word…) and frequent updates. But no idea, no self-confidence with English etc. Let’s continue thinking!

More exposure to L2: The calc is simple!

The day has 24 hours. Assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, you have 16 hours. So if you listen 8 hours of L2, you have heard more L2 than your mother language. It’s simple, not?

You don’t need to listen more L1 because you already know. Spend your time listening L2!

When you’re studying or working, you are listening a lot of things passively, right? So change all to L2! Put you headphones and imagine you are in the country where the language is spoken.

Remembering the calc:
(24 – s) / 2, where ‘s’ is how much you sleep in hours.

Let’s read more L2

There are 3,536,489 letters in the bible, so you need to read 3,536,489 letters in L2 (Second Language), every year, no, every semester. You can count it pasting all readed texts in MS Word or similar.

Really, we need to read a lot! We need to read L2 more than L1, we need to read anything, all the time, every day, every hour, every minute. No grammar rules, no translations, just read. Just keep reading, for fun!

Smart peoples read more than 30,000 letters of own language per day, so let’s try it in L2!

Counting your listening time

Do you know SLIMTIMER? It’s a tool to log how many hours you spend doing anything. I’m using since last mont to log my japanese listening time. It’s very good to define your daily targets.

You can use from PC or mobile devices that can access web pages. Here, I use only in my PC.

So, access SLIMTIMER.com and check it! I recommend!

Listening the some audio for many times

I think listen some audio for many times is better than listen random things, like radio and TV. I watch TV and listen radio a lot, it’s really good, you can learn a lot of vocabulary and memorize CMs naturally. But, listening the same audio for many times, you can learn how to say similar things naturally, even you aren’t learning new words.

In my opinion, listening the audio of dramas, animes and movies has seen before is the better way to learn how to speak. Remember, you needn’t practice speaking, never, you can learn it just listening!

Now I’m listening approximately 5 hours per day, since 19/01/2009, even when I am not paying attention, even when I’m not understanding, just keep listening. My speaking abilities has been improved naturally with is.

So let’s keep listening a lot. Passively or actively, like a native!

If you want extract audio from movies, I recommend AoA Audio Extractor.

Starting

Hello everybody!

Starting a new blog to talk about my studies. Now, I’m learning Japanese Language, Calculus an Physics.

I will try to write this blog in English, but I’m not so good yet.

I’m studying japanese with AJATT Method, listening more than 5 hours per day and adding sentences into Anki. Here is my stats:

Kanji Stats

The 3155 seen cards in this deck contain:

• 1932 total unique kanji.
• Old Jouyou: 1715 of 1945 (88.2%).
• New Jouyou: 85 of 191 (44.5%).
• Jinmeiyou (reg): 67 of 645 (10.4%).
• Jinmeiyou (var): 2 of 145 (1.4%).
• 63 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:

• Grade 1: 80  of 80  (100.0%).
• Grade 2: 160 of 160 (100.0%).
• Grade 3: 200 of 200 (100.0%).
• Grade 4: 200 of 200 (100.0%).
• Grade 5: 185 of 185 (100.0%).
• Grade 6: 181 of 181 (100.0%).
• JuniorHS: 709 of 939 (75.5%).

See ya!