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arishaHere is how much of a dork I am these days.
My latest Amazon order (gosh I promised myself I wouldn't spend so much money this year but so far it's not working ;_; ) came today, and here are the DVDs it contains: Iphigenia, Electra, The Trojan Women. GREEK TRAGEDY FTW. (I also recently finished reading Euripides' "Andromache." hahaha my favourite part is how Peleus' entire argument against Menelaus can pretty well be summed up by "Yeah? Well, your wife's a WHORE." xD;;; ) Slightly less dorky, it also contains The Merchant of Venice, which was just ten dollars. xD I figured I have watched this movie three times already, obviously I like it enough to buy it. xD;;
I am spending so much time practicing kanji you would not even recognize me. I mentioned the DS games I got, right? The first one I tried was Tadashii Kanji Kakitorikun (Kondo wa Kanken Taidaku da yo!), and I was a little disappointed because as far as I can tell (I only played for like half an hour) it only gets you to the write the kanji once, and then is like "Oh you need to draw this stroke straighter!," but so long as you get it close enough, you can move onto a different kanji. I don't think it offered any readings, either, but don't quote me on that haha. And so I was like, wow, this is not going to help me remember these things at all. But there are some mini-games that I'll probably try again at some point, where you complete sentences with the necessary kanji.
It took me a while before I was able to steal my brother's DS again and try out the other game I bought, Nazotte Oboeru Otona no Kanji Renshuu (Kanzenhan), but omg I love it. You tell it your age and by that it judges which level to place you in. I think I told it I'm six, so I'm in level two, which is basically grade two kanji, which is well within the boundaries of Kanji I'm Really Supposed to Know Already, but ah well. xD There's a daily practice section where it gives you five kanji each time, and you can look at its readings and you can practice writing it, either by following the stroke order or by doing a little "worksheet" where you write the character out ten times. xD Oh man I was so happy when I found that part, hahaha. Then the kanji you've practiced in that section fill up the test section. To pass the tests you need to get at least 80%, and you can't move onto the next level of kanji until you've passed all of them. There's also a section that tests you on kanji you've messed up on before, and a bunch of mini-games too.
My one complaint about this game is that it doesn't include English translation (or even a Japanese explanation of what the kanji mean), but I can hardly hold that against it since it's a game meant for native Japanese speakers who presumably would already know most of the meanings. But I'm still at a level where I at least recognize most of them, and if I don't it's easy enough to grab a dictionary. haha, it's so crazy that I'm so fanatical about this game and all determined to get 100% on every test and playing it for like three hours every day, considering how hard it was to get myself to practice kanji back when I was, y'know, actually supposed to be practicing kanji. ^^; But it's just so much easier! I don't have to spend hours looking stuff up in my big fat kanji dictionary, I don't have to get out a pen and sufficient paper, I don't have to find somewhere to sit down (haha whine whine), if I want to be tested I don't have to set everything up myself ... instead I just grab my DS and yay! Instant kanji practice! x) hahaha I don't care if this makes me look lazy, because at least I've finally found a way to get myself to practice kanji. :D
And I guess that is where I will end this entry because it's time to go to school. :PP At least it's my favourite class today, but still. x_x;;
My latest Amazon order (gosh I promised myself I wouldn't spend so much money this year but so far it's not working ;_; ) came today, and here are the DVDs it contains: Iphigenia, Electra, The Trojan Women. GREEK TRAGEDY FTW. (I also recently finished reading Euripides' "Andromache." hahaha my favourite part is how Peleus' entire argument against Menelaus can pretty well be summed up by "Yeah? Well, your wife's a WHORE." xD;;; ) Slightly less dorky, it also contains The Merchant of Venice, which was just ten dollars. xD I figured I have watched this movie three times already, obviously I like it enough to buy it. xD;;
I am spending so much time practicing kanji you would not even recognize me. I mentioned the DS games I got, right? The first one I tried was Tadashii Kanji Kakitorikun (Kondo wa Kanken Taidaku da yo!), and I was a little disappointed because as far as I can tell (I only played for like half an hour) it only gets you to the write the kanji once, and then is like "Oh you need to draw this stroke straighter!," but so long as you get it close enough, you can move onto a different kanji. I don't think it offered any readings, either, but don't quote me on that haha. And so I was like, wow, this is not going to help me remember these things at all. But there are some mini-games that I'll probably try again at some point, where you complete sentences with the necessary kanji.
It took me a while before I was able to steal my brother's DS again and try out the other game I bought, Nazotte Oboeru Otona no Kanji Renshuu (Kanzenhan), but omg I love it. You tell it your age and by that it judges which level to place you in. I think I told it I'm six, so I'm in level two, which is basically grade two kanji, which is well within the boundaries of Kanji I'm Really Supposed to Know Already, but ah well. xD There's a daily practice section where it gives you five kanji each time, and you can look at its readings and you can practice writing it, either by following the stroke order or by doing a little "worksheet" where you write the character out ten times. xD Oh man I was so happy when I found that part, hahaha. Then the kanji you've practiced in that section fill up the test section. To pass the tests you need to get at least 80%, and you can't move onto the next level of kanji until you've passed all of them. There's also a section that tests you on kanji you've messed up on before, and a bunch of mini-games too.
My one complaint about this game is that it doesn't include English translation (or even a Japanese explanation of what the kanji mean), but I can hardly hold that against it since it's a game meant for native Japanese speakers who presumably would already know most of the meanings. But I'm still at a level where I at least recognize most of them, and if I don't it's easy enough to grab a dictionary. haha, it's so crazy that I'm so fanatical about this game and all determined to get 100% on every test and playing it for like three hours every day, considering how hard it was to get myself to practice kanji back when I was, y'know, actually supposed to be practicing kanji. ^^; But it's just so much easier! I don't have to spend hours looking stuff up in my big fat kanji dictionary, I don't have to get out a pen and sufficient paper, I don't have to find somewhere to sit down (haha whine whine), if I want to be tested I don't have to set everything up myself ... instead I just grab my DS and yay! Instant kanji practice! x) hahaha I don't care if this makes me look lazy, because at least I've finally found a way to get myself to practice kanji. :D
And I guess that is where I will end this entry because it's time to go to school. :PP At least it's my favourite class today, but still. x_x;;
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Date: 2008-01-31 02:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 04:15 am (UTC)haha too bad for you there is no kindergarten level!! xD