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wrote a joke gintama fanfic, it's here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15164027
not much else is going on, my exchange year in japan ends in 3 weeks and if i go to taiwan for work it'll be in the middle of september. i finally got the medicine (a shot) i need to feel better, or at least one out of the two i thought i was going to get, and in general i feel a lot better but i'm still getting stomachaches every morning and stuff - going back to the doctor a week from now.
TRYING to get SOMEONE to come with the beach to me since i've been in japan for what, 10 months, without playing around at the seashore. still haven't done pachinko or gone to see a movie either, but i plan to see the new gintama movie in theatres next month (it costs like $30 USD for 2 people to see a movie so i don't want to watch a totally random one).
hanging around with some exchange students who speak chinese, i can DEFINITELY see how you can actually pick up chinese from immersion if you just know basic chinese already - they repeat the same words AAAAAALL the time, especially words like "here, there, don't want, ugly, cute" etc. and since there's no inflections or anything the words you do know are really easy to pick out. i love japanese but man japanese seems a lot harder than chinese.
took the JLPT N1... in a nutshell, it was designed (same as N2) for people who literally only read "businessman japanese". so if you listen to "hey you made a mistake in your project, go fix it" conversations, read crappy self-help "social psychology" articles, and read a LOT LOT of kanji (= formal japanese) then you'll do fine. there was literally almost no katakana-english in the whole test, and they specifically designed the vocabulary section to stump people who know chinese (like, kanji that have a special meaning in japanese but not in chinese, or words with different pronunciation in japanese than chinese). same as with N1, there was only 1-2 questions that involved keigo and 2-3 that involved everyday casual japanese, meaning you can pass the freaking hardest level of the so-called japanese proficiency exam without proving you know the type of japanese that makes up like 70% of the japanese language. i spent a whole semester studying N1 vocabulary and grammar at school, and did a little self-study as well, and basically none of that appeared on the test (the other students complained of the same thing).
anyway, i'll find out my results in september. i'll probably be working for a year in taiwan anyway so if i fail i'll just retake the thing in taiwan in december.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15164027
not much else is going on, my exchange year in japan ends in 3 weeks and if i go to taiwan for work it'll be in the middle of september. i finally got the medicine (a shot) i need to feel better, or at least one out of the two i thought i was going to get, and in general i feel a lot better but i'm still getting stomachaches every morning and stuff - going back to the doctor a week from now.
TRYING to get SOMEONE to come with the beach to me since i've been in japan for what, 10 months, without playing around at the seashore. still haven't done pachinko or gone to see a movie either, but i plan to see the new gintama movie in theatres next month (it costs like $30 USD for 2 people to see a movie so i don't want to watch a totally random one).
hanging around with some exchange students who speak chinese, i can DEFINITELY see how you can actually pick up chinese from immersion if you just know basic chinese already - they repeat the same words AAAAAALL the time, especially words like "here, there, don't want, ugly, cute" etc. and since there's no inflections or anything the words you do know are really easy to pick out. i love japanese but man japanese seems a lot harder than chinese.
took the JLPT N1... in a nutshell, it was designed (same as N2) for people who literally only read "businessman japanese". so if you listen to "hey you made a mistake in your project, go fix it" conversations, read crappy self-help "social psychology" articles, and read a LOT LOT of kanji (= formal japanese) then you'll do fine. there was literally almost no katakana-english in the whole test, and they specifically designed the vocabulary section to stump people who know chinese (like, kanji that have a special meaning in japanese but not in chinese, or words with different pronunciation in japanese than chinese). same as with N1, there was only 1-2 questions that involved keigo and 2-3 that involved everyday casual japanese, meaning you can pass the freaking hardest level of the so-called japanese proficiency exam without proving you know the type of japanese that makes up like 70% of the japanese language. i spent a whole semester studying N1 vocabulary and grammar at school, and did a little self-study as well, and basically none of that appeared on the test (the other students complained of the same thing).
anyway, i'll find out my results in september. i'll probably be working for a year in taiwan anyway so if i fail i'll just retake the thing in taiwan in december.
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