Postby genini1 » Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:55 pm
Occasionally in my studies I will come across a sentence or word that just makes me stop and think, 'what the heck is that?' and yesterday it was a sentence from a Udemy lesson. Specifically it was その仕事は一気に終わらせなければならないですか。Or more specifically the 終わらせなければならない part which is a single word that has had multiple endings tacked on to it including a conditional, asking permission, and the causative. It's not particularly hard when you sit down and break it down, but the thought of trying to figure it out when someone says it is still far beyond me. Even written down with a translation it took like 5 minutes to break it down.
Otherwise my studies for the last month have been iffy unfortunately. I have been having problems at work with staffing and when that happens I have to pick up the slack which means more hours. The good news is that it seems to be resolved now so hopefully I have more time. I haven't been completely idle though and have made time for 30 minutes a day of reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which is where I left off in the series after reading the first three volumes in Japanese. This one is longer than the last three at almost twice the word count of the last book, but it's still reasonably interesting. It's odd going back to an actual novel after reading so many light novels as the writing style is fairly different, but it's better really.
I've also been doing various study programs as I have time. Specifically I have some JLPT courses on Udemy that I have been going through again. They aren't amazing, but being able to hear all the grammar points is nice for reinforcing and you can't have too much reinforcement in my opinion. I also signed up for jpod101 again to have some more audio background noise in general. Not sure how much it helps, but it can't really hurt.
For the upcoming month I want to set a more hardcore goal though to try and get back into learning again. To that end I've set a personal goal of 3 episodes of anime (or tv in general) a day, 1 volume of manga a day, and 10% of a light novel each day. Depending on the difficulty of the work chosen that's 3-5 hours a day which is doable, but a stretch for me, but I'm determined to turn October back into learning a lot month.
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