After stumbling upon this blog with very casual and personal posts on Japanese immersion, I decided to give what this post says a try: “Listen to 10,000 hours of Japanese over the next 18 months.” I wouldn’t want to have my J-Pop tunes on repeat as that would probably make me sick of them in the end so I resorted to Japanese internet radio.

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It’s been a while and I think it would still be a while before I get a grip on j-blogging on a regular basis.

Summer term is [cursed] bestowed upon a handful of us [not so] lucky daigaku no gakusei 大学の学生 (college students). But anyway, I’m not entirely cursing this summer term for taking away my precious drama-watching, spazzing, lazing and nihongo-benkyou time because I’d still be able to have my dose of Nihongo Benkyou 日本語勉強(Japanese language study) while at the university.

Hai! I took JSP1 (Japanese Language and Culture I) as my foreign language elective. This is one of the 3 subjects that we’re supposed to complete this summer term. It covers the first 5 lessons of the Genki I textbook. Now, don’t scoff at me for taking this self-study-able subject. I seriously need an A or an A to pull up my [predicted] Statistics grade. Besides, taking this subject would probably give back a third of my stolen precious drama-watching, spazzing, lazing and nihongo-benkyou time.

That’s it for now. For anything else, you can follow me on Twitter and [please stalk me] on Plurk.

Being one of the sites I visit on a daily routine to learn Japanese vocabulary, iKnow!’s more-than-a-day-long maintenance wasn’t new to me. I’ve actually missed learning 10 new kanji (five a day) because of it. It took that long for the people behind the amazing flash card site to relaunch it as smart.fm.

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