Comments on: Practice: Don’t Beat Yourself Up http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/practice-dont-beat-yourself-up How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:06:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Alyks http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/practice-dont-beat-yourself-up#comment-13057 Alyks Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:35:33 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/practice-dont-beat-yourself-up#comment-13057 Man, I really need to stop beating myself up. Today was a bit of a bad day for me (emotionally, physically, whatever), and because of this I didn't get into my "hardcore Japanese learning mode" and get my normal 30 sentences done that I like to do. But you know what? I still learned five new sentences. I still enjoyed one of my favorite Japanese shows. Still, man, it's hard not to beat yourself up. 'Cause it's like, "why do you still suck at listening, huh?", "Why aren't you reading more?", "Why are you being lazy about looking up words?". It's just so hard to focus on the fact that I'm already light years ahead of the advanced Japanese class students. That I am, in fact, able to read Japanese with my trusty 大辞林. That with an exact subbed movie (Quiet room ni youkoso, excellent movie. I believe it's floating around the less reputable sites now) I could follow along and understand a lot. Yeah, it's hard. =) Man, I really need to stop beating myself up. Today was a bit of a bad day for me (emotionally, physically, whatever), and because of this I didn’t get into my “hardcore Japanese learning mode” and get my normal 30 sentences done that I like to do. But you know what? I still learned five new sentences. I still enjoyed one of my favorite Japanese shows.

Still, man, it’s hard not to beat yourself up. ‘Cause it’s like, “why do you still suck at listening, huh?”, “Why aren’t you reading more?”, “Why are you being lazy about looking up words?”.

It’s just so hard to focus on the fact that I’m already light years ahead of the advanced Japanese class students. That I am, in fact, able to read Japanese with my trusty 大辞林. That with an exact subbed movie (Quiet room ni youkoso, excellent movie. I believe it’s floating around the less reputable sites now) I could follow along and understand a lot.

Yeah, it’s hard. =)

]]> By: David http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/practice-dont-beat-yourself-up#comment-10757 David Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:27:19 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/practice-dont-beat-yourself-up#comment-10757 That time boxing thing is interesting. I've tried doing that with some things, but, I always end up going over. Which, with Japanese, that's never a bad thing. I've wanted to try time boxing each Kanji. For instance, there are times when I *over think* a story so much that it takes me off into some mysterious land of distractions. Which only results in wasted time. I do worry sometimes about "Kanji burn out" because I'm pushing myself to get through so many, though. I have to avoid getting frustrated when I get stuck trying to come up with a good image to fix in my head, too. That time boxing thing is interesting. I’ve tried doing that with some things, but, I always end up going over. Which, with Japanese, that’s never a bad thing. I’ve wanted to try time boxing each Kanji. For instance, there are times when I *over think* a story so much that it takes me off into some mysterious land of distractions. Which only results in wasted time. I do worry sometimes about “Kanji burn out” because I’m pushing myself to get through so many, though.

I have to avoid getting frustrated when I get stuck trying to come up with a good image to fix in my head, too.

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