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Rant: Asking for letters of recommendation is nerve wracking to hell.
Rave: One accepted!
Rant2: I won't be able to meet with the second professor until next week, in which I'll ask him in person. This only leaves him with three weeks to write it, which I hope isn't too short! I feel bad, but he can't meet this week and if I can, I'd like to ask him in person and not in email.
Rave: One accepted!
Rant2: I won't be able to meet with the second professor until next week, in which I'll ask him in person. This only leaves him with three weeks to write it, which I hope isn't too short! I feel bad, but he can't meet this week and if I can, I'd like to ask him in person and not in email.
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Somebody uploaded 56 hours of K-Mart background music from the late 80's, and now I'm determined to listen to all of it.
Help. Me.
Help. Me.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
So I had sort of a fall break last week (after midterm exams monday and tuesday, which btw I felt went not very good) where I could have chaught up on stuff, but I couldn't get myself to do it. Now there's a bunch of new assignments where I will have to learn the material by solving the tasks, because I haven't studied the material properly, and this will further keep me from studying properly.
I'm making practically no headway in the giant build up of stuff I already should have been through many weeks ago.
And this is only the sodding second year. I can't do bloody anything.
I'm making practically no headway in the giant build up of stuff I already should have been through many weeks ago.
And this is only the sodding second year. I can't do bloody anything.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Right. Reminds me of thow I keep not reading the class readings. Even the ones that actually interest me.
What language is/was it?
Japanese. にほんごです。
I feel like I can read and write it ok, since I have time to think, but speaking keeps throwing me for twists. Constantly messing up word order and trying to recall vocab. It's like putting puzzle pieces together and I can't see the final image.
Timsup2nothin
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Cable TV, yo. I get three Japanese channels, one news, one sports, one that seems to be mostly soap opera looking stuff. Turn on the news, rant at the screen in Japanese when they say stupid stuff. Turn on Japanese baseball, cheer for the Hiroshima Bombers. Turn on soap operas and practice repeating pick up lines.
sophie
Break My Heart
Yeah. This. If you read, try to take some time to read aloud to yourself. Repeat things you hear on tv. A lot of language formation comes from reflex/impulse. So when you repeat passages you're keying your mind into that phrasing. Things just start to "feel right" rather than having to slow down and think about what you're doing. Not just syntactically. Grammatically and content-wise as well. Helps with conjugation/declension/clitics.
Other than that - penpals/message boards/japanese groups on campus. You mostly just have to focus on getting your reps in. At least 1-2 hours of Japanese practice every day.
REPS REPS REPS
There are so many different ways you can practice.
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
My spanish teacher was a big believer of this. Over the summer, and during breaks he'd tell his class to watch spanish television and write a report with as much as we could understand. Of course, I was lazy and only in spanish because my guidance counselor strong armed me into it, so I would watch spanish tv with subtitles.
sophie
Break My Heart
Yeah with television programming the real secret is to not give in and turn on subtitles. Even if you have no idea what's going on and don't feel like it's helping at all; it may not feel like you're getting anywhere but your brain is actually developing a feel for the natural rhythms of the language and the more REPS you put in you'll find the more little words you can pick out of each sentence. And then one day you'll hear someone complain about how fast Japanese is and you'll feel very confused about why someone would think that.
I was going to say I watch Japanese TV with dinner every night, but I do it with subtitles
I guess I should try some no subtitle runs to pick up on rhythms, because my regular class work sure isn't doing enough.
I do try and read things aloud to myself, and talk to myself, but I tend to stumble when I do so. Also I know what I'm thinking, so there's none of the stumbling that comes from hearing what people are saying/asking, and then thinking of an appropriate response.
sophie
Break My Heart
That's good. A really good exercise is, whenever you're walking somewhere, describe what's going on to yourself. What you're seeing. What you're doing. Why you're doing it. What other people look like. What they seem to be doing. etc. If you can't remember a word write it down on your phone or store it in the back of your mind for lookup later. The more places you go to the bigger your vocabulary gets.
Honestly the single most helpful thing to me with regard to my German was a) reading fiction (Harry Potter!) and b) watching tv. Once you attain a basic competency in all the grammar (like a year to a year-and-a-half of study) vocab becomes the main stumbling block. You'll very quickly realize that with any language class there is always a chunk of like maybe 50-100 words that are never touched on in class but are used ALL THE DAMN TIME in everyday speech. Reading is a great way to learn those words because you'll be CONSTANTLY having to look them up because they pop up all the time.
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Perhaps you can let him know of your intent to ask via email, but say you would like to meet in person to discuss it?
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
I think I might be slowly slowly slowly making progress in some aspects of happiness.
More that I think I know some steps I can take to get happier. I have already had a massive attrition in things I used to be able to do and desired to do (technical skills), but now I recognize the large amount of work it will take for me to be moderately successful [by my own metrics] in other areas. Before I thought it might just take a little bit of work.
So that is a rant and a rave. If I don't burn out, I might be able to have a well rounded perspective.
More that I think I know some steps I can take to get happier. I have already had a massive attrition in things I used to be able to do and desired to do (technical skills), but now I recognize the large amount of work it will take for me to be moderately successful [by my own metrics] in other areas. Before I thought it might just take a little bit of work.
So that is a rant and a rave. If I don't burn out, I might be able to have a well rounded perspective.
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