Japanese Hiragana part 2

So I don't seem to be having many problems with the pronunciation of the first 4 columns of Hiragana. The 5th column has a little hard part, getting the 'u' at the end of "tsu". Otherwise it's going well, I am remembering pronunciation very well and am having fun with the column pattern.

In other areas, I am working on getting myself organized and trying to get into the way I want to be. I've set up a to do list with times and all kinds of stuff. I'm trying to look at it every day and check things off as I do them. Hopefully this will make it easier for me to remember to study enough and pay attention more often. I've cut down on my Netflix watching so that I am more in the moment and listening to mood boosting podcasts when I walk or do chores around the house. I got a ton of chores done today, desperately needed today, as well as lots of studying.

Focus gone, signing off.

Japanese Lesson 1 part 2

In this part of the lesson we went over the different alphabets for lack of a better term, of Japanese.
Hiragana:

• Used as the "alphabet" of the "Alphabet" (ie. Kanji)
• sounding out and understanding the more difficult Kanji
• Words without Kanji
• Suffixes
• Particles
• Verb and Adjective inflections

Katakana

• Has the same sounds as Hiragana
• Used for foreign words 
• Scientific words
• Onomatopoeia
• Emphasis (italics)
• Food often

Kanji

• Chinese characters repurposed for Japanese
• Make up the bulk of the language vocab (needing 2000+ to read Japanese)
• Each character has multiple pronunciations
• Can be Noun, Adjective or Verb

I didn't really have any trouble with the Chapter and the way this is written just sweeps me along for the ride so I don't really notice that I'm working hard. I think its going to take some work to get them straight in my head for their purposes but they aren't that difficult, honestly I'll just quiz myself for a while and keep writing it down so I get the correlations correct. So all in all not really having a hard with this at all so far and being fairly entertained. If only my other classes were as entertaining and snarky as this I'd be happy.

Japanese Intro

So, Nick and I are starting a round of Japanese and this is a review of that event.

Goals

1. Learn Japanese with Nick so he has someone to talk to and I get Nick time.
2. Study Japanese in addition to all the other things I am working on.
3. Clean my study area.
4. When I sit at my desk I study.
5. Mon. and Thur. at 5 I study with Nick.
6. Create a study Blog (heheh already had one from when I was studying Accounting, but this is still a good idea even though previously I sucked at keeping up with it.


This is devoted to #6; I am creating a section for my Japanese class to chronicle my studies. So far in this first lesson we've been using TextFugu's free section for our experiment. This website is well, well put together as a class so far. There is a lot of educational theory at the beginning to prep people for what they are getting themselves into. Since I already have Chinese experience I understand with greater depth how incredibly relevant that is. So we'll see how it goes.