krielle

I don't need anything in return. But thank you for the offer! Sorry if I'm slow...Lol. I'm playing minecraft with my kids on our ps3's.

Lol. Yah, I'm always off and on since I'm usually on my iPad or iPhone when I check the threads. So one minute I'm on then I go check an app and I'm off again. I'm lazy to walk into my office and turn on a comp...hehe. Let me turn on my ds and set things up.

Awesome! I already have a move date set for him so I can box him up later on. It's about to hit 3am now and i'm bout to get some sleep since my hubby is about to wake up for work. I will be up around 11am PST.

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Oh and as you can see, I wasn't paying attention and messed up a bunch of my 午。lol. I kept drawing the vertical stroke through the top stroke.

A review after learning so many kanji sounds like a good idea - I'd hate to lose everything I learned because I stopped using it immediately after moving on to new ones.

Anyway, here's day two!:

Man, this 女 problem is making me procrastinate.. lol. But I want to practice, or else the 3+ hrs I spent yesterday writing those 30 kanji over and over again will all be for nothing..

What do you think? Should I continue the same 30 kanji tomorrow, or do you think that writing them again today will be enough, even if a few still need work, and just move on to the next 30 for tomorrow?

I can't decide, because I don't want to move on if I still have some that need a lot of work.. But at the same time, I'm not gonna make much progress if I don't.
If I've memorized the stroke order, though, and the word I've chosen to associate it with, is that enough to move on? idk D:

Yeah. D: I'm definitely not looking forward to kanji with a ton of strokes..

And I agree - those two look the closest to the character. Only problem is I can't seem to replicate them on purpose x_x.. Some of them look really different because I was purposely trying different angles and such to try and make it look accurate, but even when I wrote one that I kinda liked, I couldn't manage to do it again.

Yep!

大 is strange, though.. I mean, I know it's it's own radical, but I thought it would also be considered to be made up of 人 and 一 because it looks like 人 with 一 across the middle. But nope.. it isn't.

Also, I haaaaaate writing 女！So much.. I'd much rather have to write a billion 少 than have to write a single 女。 Ughhhh. Dx I tried writing a bunch down, to try and improve before I do all 30 in my journal, but I just can't do it:

Yeah, I managed to remember that the character can be read as おおきい when I tried learning too many things at once. xD I also memorized that it can be read as たい because my Dad brought back a shirt from a Japanese airport when he was on his way to Vietnam that had 大漁 on the back, and did a lot of searching on the internet to figure out what the heck it said haha. Apparently it said たいりょう and means "big catch" (makes sense cuz it had a big fish on it lol).

The second kanji in that word wasn't included when I was trying to cram a bunch of info in at once, though, so I can't look at it and immediately recognize it like I can with 大

If only I could make my own, sturdy flashcards...

I just made this:

It really does! And I've said the same thing to my Dad (who has no interest in learning Japanese lol), and he just gives me this look like I'm crazy. xD Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it sounds like those sounds put together.

And yup! I made sure I knew the pronunciations when I learned hiragana/katakana. I had a flashcard app on my phone (still have it, too), that showed either a hiragana character or a katakana character on the front, and the romanized pronunciation on the back. So when I played, if the card showed a, say.. す , I would mentally say "Su?" in my head before flipping the card to make sure that's what it was.

Haha don't worry - I am too. Even if you were willing, I'd probably be too shy, myself, even if it were just audio and no video.

And nope. I definitely need to practice on my "R"s, though..

I've considered just listing off random things I see as practice, but pronounce them like they're written in Japanese (Like how taxi is a borrowed word in Japanese, only they pronounce it タクシー While skirt is スカート Bus is バス etc), but again.. too embarrassed by my voice to attempt it. lol

Ahh, that's a relief.. xD I thought it'd take me several days before I could make my 少 look any better.

And yeah, I know lol. What's funny is I already have a naturally high voice, so I don't see why I'd need to go any higher, even if you had to speak Japanese in a higher tone of voice.

Ah well. Hopefully, like with my handwriting, my speaking will improve with practice. Only issue is getting myself to practice, lol.. Even alone, I feel too embarrassed about my mispronunciation and ridiculously higher tone to try and say anything in Japanese.

So I scribbled a few more 少 and took your advice about making the hook less rounded:

Ugh pronunciation. D: It's so frustrating - I can hear the word perfectly in my head, but once I try to physically say it, it never comes out right. Plus, I seem to have the problem of not being able to speak in my normal range.. lol. For some reason, I change the tone of my voice when I try to speak Japanese.

Yeah, I'm sure. I have a lot of learning to do before I can go, though hahaha.
I mean I suppose I could go to one of those online forums where you can meet someone do you a language exchange with on Skype... But right now, I don't think that's possible.

Extreme shyness aside, I'm also a trans guy who isn't out "irl", and I'm not taking testosterone or anything, so I look, and sound, "like a woman". And because I have trouble getting people whose native language is also English to understand what trans means.. I don't think I could explain it to someone whose native language isn't even English lol.


And yeah, I know. D: What do you think I should do about that? Should I drop the hook at the end to make it look less like a nose??

I'd like to go, someday - but before I even think about it, I want to learn enough of the language to survive on my own.

And here it is - day 1 of my 30-kanji-a-day writing practice (my fingers hurt..):

Wow, this is going to be exhausting... LOL

I wrote down the 30 kanji I'll be practicing today, and then I went online, found each individual kanji, pasted it into a site that shows the stroke order, saved each image, and then I copied each individual kanji again into the dictionary site I use, to find it's radical so I could go to another site, and save the images of each of the 30 kanjis radicals.

Pain in the butt and you're probably thinking "But couldn't you just keep all the tabs open and do it that way??".. And yeah, I could have.
It's just that I wanted to have all of the images handy, just in case my internet goes down for whatever reason. I want to be able to practice offline. (though it won't do me much good if the power dies..)

OK. I'll contact you if I'm unable to learn it on my own.