An interesting talk by Thomas S. Mullaney. If you've ever wondered how characters were arranged in the traybed of a Chinese typewriter, here's the answer. There's more to it than you might think.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Dunna dunna dunna dunna dunna dunna dunna dunna Batman!
Picked up this delightful book for next to nothing from a remainder shop today. Japanese Batman! The lettering (kanaing? Kanjiing?) has of course been Englished, but there are plenty of reproductions of covers and adverts and miscellanea from the 60s Batman boom in Japan to amuse me.
Poor Robin, he looks unhappy.
I like the spare, simple look of this.
299 days to go to the JLPT. (I'm not going to be counting backwards every bloody day from now on, but I do want to keep track of how many days I have left if I am going to seriously target the December exam.)
Poor Robin, he looks unhappy.
I like the spare, simple look of this.
299 days to go to the JLPT. (I'm not going to be counting backwards every bloody day from now on, but I do want to keep track of how many days I have left if I am going to seriously target the December exam.)
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
JLPT again
The December JLPT didn't happen last year. Well, it happened, but not for me: the planned concerted throwing-myself-at-the-books never really got going. I might have a go at it this year; I notice that today is day 38 of the year and Sunday December 2nd this year is day 337, so I have 300 days, if I include what's left of today, to prepare for it.
I haven't been totally idle recently; been doing quite a lot of listening to Japanese radio stations and am starting to be able to spot verb endings and postpositions. There's a hell of a lot more to listening comprehension than that, but it's a start. If there's any one thing I'm likely to screw up in a language exam it's listening comprehension, so I know I really need to get cracking on this.
For all that I 'want' to learn Japanese intensively, I find myself not getting very much study done. Thinking about what a fine thing it would be to have studied the language to a high level turns out to be more fun than actually doing the studying. I know the ends that I want but the means are too much like hard work. Khatz, of the excellent AJATT site, has a lot of useful stuff to say about this sort of thing.
I haven't been totally idle recently; been doing quite a lot of listening to Japanese radio stations and am starting to be able to spot verb endings and postpositions. There's a hell of a lot more to listening comprehension than that, but it's a start. If there's any one thing I'm likely to screw up in a language exam it's listening comprehension, so I know I really need to get cracking on this.
For all that I 'want' to learn Japanese intensively, I find myself not getting very much study done. Thinking about what a fine thing it would be to have studied the language to a high level turns out to be more fun than actually doing the studying. I know the ends that I want but the means are too much like hard work. Khatz, of the excellent AJATT site, has a lot of useful stuff to say about this sort of thing.
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