well the paper flashcards aren't working out so great.. it just takes too long..

i made a new schedule for myself.. the *starred* items are optional this month..

ill be starting tae kims grammar in may..

i wish i didnt have to go to my real classes.. they really cut into my japanese time..

so far today and yesterday ive stuck with this schedule.. i just finished a lesson in rosetta stone and im getting ready for lunch when i will watch 'lets learn japanese' ill also watch it when i take a bath later.. but theres no harm in watching an episode twice in a day.. however i dont think ill start a new episode in the bath because 2 episodes in a day might be too much for me..

i cant wait til summer arrives.. instead of new years resolutions i generally do summer resolutions.. this summer i want to complete RTK1 and start doing kanji chains and i want to have tae kim's grammar completed by the time school starts.. and i want to have finished 'lets learn japanese' season 1 and 2 and move on to the third installment of the series which is called Erin's challenge.. erin's challenge is for upper beginners to intermediate students according to the japan shop its sold with a text book so i guess i wont be doing it in the bath.. but a textbook might make it a better course.. so yeah my expectations are kind of high.. its almost impossible for me to get to upper beginner-intermediate by the time summer is over.. but ill give it my best..

i recently read a blog.. well i didnt read the whole thing but its called all japanese all the time..

well im not sure how much of it ill follow because giving up my friends and family who speak english would be too hard.. i live with my dad so its not like i can avoid him (nor would i want to) plus i go to school.. and i cant exactly stop going to lectures just because im trying to learn japanese.. i disagree with some of the things in the blog ive read.. for one there isnt any reason for me to start sleeping on a futon or doing everything at low tables.. i have a very bad back so i just dont think this is wise (i need more support when sleeping and sometimes i need help getting up when im on the ground).. plus quite alot of japanese households use beds instead of futons now.. and almost all the media i see has them sitting on western style furniture..

things i agree with would be watching as much japanese tv, movies and listening to as much music as possible.. i tried several languages before japanese.. and one day i get a demo cd of rosetta stone.. it graded me in every language they had.. for some reason i scored extremely well in japanese and terrible in every other language.. it took me a while to figure out the reason for my relative ease at learning japanese.. i had been watching TONS of japanese movies for years so i could just intuitively pick up some of the words and grammar.. the reason i was watching the japanese movies is because i have dyslexia so reading subtitles helped me up my reading speed and accuracy.. however blockbuster only had a small foreign section and when i started watching i was a kid so the only things that were kid appropriate that were subtitled were in japanese(anime).. i sort of cheated the second time i watched movies.. i had already read the subtitles once so i knew what was going on so i stopped reading them.. bad for my reading speed but apparently good for me picking up japanese without even knowing i was doing it.. however the knowledge i picked up was very basic.. so when i bought some textbooks and rosetta stone i ended up feeling like i hit a wall after a while.. suddenly what was easy is now as hard as it is with everyone else.. so now ive got to work at it much harder.. and it is slow going..

oops its time for lets learn japanese.. see you later