Plans for June to kill July



This month is going to be about business and nothing but business, baby. This month for me will be like hyperbolic time chamber training (As long as I can focus lol ADHD you are my life's liquor) since school will be the last thing on my mind since finals are over. Yes, this is like a breath of fresh air to my Japanese studying life ^_^. With Tadoku coming up next month I am very excited for another round of competition where I can prove myself to myself. However, before I get to July I want to use this month to facilitate my path in the way how racers get used to the track then dominate the Preliminary races before they get to the Grand Prix. So here is my playbook:

Things that halt/drag

Since I've had some slacking in my studying I took time to analyze where my short comings are coming from.
1. My love of English music
Problem: I have abundance of english music that I love to have around me at any given time. This music ranging from being Hardstyle party music to Inspirational HipHop that helps me when I feel like crap. Which are all in English.


Solution: Drop my mass English music consumption to one English song on my Ipod that can be played only twice a day. Further, I will look desperately for Japanese Techno and Hardstyle mixes. The thing that will help me continue this will be the fact that that one English song will be inspirational and for the other time I will put my Ipod on shuffle and let it do what it does best in the way of giving me new songs that I've downloaded which keeps from getting bored since I won't know what is next.

2. Watching and Reading too much English

Problem: I've been looking at too much English whether it's on the screen while I'm playing SSF4AE (YUN AND YANG ARE BROKEN BTW) or its during the few movies that I watch aside from the Redbox ones that my mom gains by the free codes. Though enjoyable since I am use to the American formula for movies I am a Japanese learner and need to see Japanese movies as the norm.

Solution: Get cracking on that list of 42 Japanese movies sitting in my Netflix queue and push more Japanese no subbed anime in my face and make sure it stays there. That's all that's to it for that one.

The Short Term Goal Aspect

Problem: I haven't been setting short term goals for myself. This becomes a problem cause my Motivation for anything in life right now is pretty low.

Solution: I will start planning ahead using memory aids such as mind maps so that I can feel as if I accomplished something before I even get into the depth of the section of Japanese that I am tackling for that week.

So this is how I am going at Japanese for the rest of this month. Please wish me luck as I wish all of my readers luck in this conquest that we take in learning this "difficult" language.

May Overveiw

I have been able to limit my slacking down to an degree. This has purged my productivity up to an area where I can feel adequate about how long I have studied. In this month I will increase my exposure to Japanese ambience ,but it wasn't to bad this time so I would presume it was the lack of consistency that makes me feel like that except remember guys it's these moments where you judge yourself on doing something other people consider difficult which makes you genius＼(^o^)／. Now to some WとL
Wins:
1) Scoring some Japanese books buy using お金 (yep JapanNewbie said stop stealing.
2) Watching Deathnote (with subs) but not thinking in the English definition which helped me get my Takehiko on.
3) Skype chattin wit ma Japanese peeps and you if you have a Skype.
4) Having a cool girl ask me what my Japanese shirt said. Here reaction priceless.

Loss:
Getting two hot girls Facebook and already having a Asian girlfriend lol

Well before Anne sees me trying this and assume it's me inviting her to help me with はりかえい. I will check you guys l8ter

Just an appetizer: IPod Touch

こんにちは、みなさん。　竹彦です(たけひこ)。Recently I bought my 兄(あに) an Ipod touch and since I had some money left over the next day even though I'm not an apple fan I really just wanted it for the 8gb HDD and 日本語menus. So after transferring my 音楽 (おんがく) from the 2gb memory card on my phone to this now what seems like colossal space to fill up. I was astonished to the point that I search out all of Nobodyknows+'s CDs and reveled with glee, because I wasn't stuffed into the "Do I Realllly like this Japanese song?" syndrome. However, since my ultimate goal for the device was done I was satisfied. This was until my brother showed me that they have a flash card program in the app store for free by the name of Isrs which after I found out about this app then I went on a downloading tangent grabbing at anything that has 日本語 in its 名前。Afterwards I discovered that all of these applications though free cost half of my memory, which is rather problem since I haven't tested their worth yet. When I started process of elimination I found that many of them were crap till you buy, but some were good on the beginner level and really helped the beginners get to a higher point then made them pay. I'm ok with the latter because their helping people stay in the Japanese learning community so before I end this post I would like to name the great apps that I will keep using for now:

• WNJapanese
  
• JPhrases
  
• dNihongo Lite
  
• JLPTStudyFree
  
• Reibun Lite
  
• JLPTSelfStudy
  
• BunpouLite
  
• J Sensei
  
• I-Sokki V. N5
  

And some one tell them to make a commercial about that it would be good to hear "Learning Japanese , Well there's an App for that." またね