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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:59 pm
I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
Lately, I've been rethinking learning Japanese. I know the first 4 grades kanji (640) and I know a lot! I know even more than my Japanese class who have all be doing it a year to four years longer than me. But now I'm losing interest in it all and Japan. I'm not as excited anymore and I'm easily bored.
At home, I have JAPAN TV to improve my language and knowledge of Japan and I read Mainichi almost every day. But now... I'm thinking Japan is not the best place. It's easily now the least appealing place (there's been a lot more crimes and murders than I can count. A recent one is that a 17-year-old cut his mother's head off as she slept, then watched music videos in a cyber café before turning himself in. He brought the head with him everywhere in a bag.)
Does anyone have any ideas what I should do? I wasted so much time to get this far and I feel physically sick at the idea of giving up, but it's also the only thing I can do because I've managed to forget a bit of English and French (which is terrible for me!).
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 10:57 pm
You've burnt yourself out. In a nut shell.
Did you ever stop to think why your classmates don't know as many Kanji as you do, why they are not at your level? Either they are idiots (which could very well be the case) or rather they didn't take too much on, too fast.
I get the same thing you are feeling from time to time, there are people in my university Japanese class who have been studying Japanese for 5 years more than I have, and I still have to tell them the readings of kanji and how to use certain grammar forms, but then, there is also a girl in my class who has been studying as long as I have and is well above my level. My current level being about JLPT level 2. I don't think thats too bad after 2 years of study, starting from scratch, but if I had studied more I could probably be at level one by now (well maybe not, but close).
The reason I didn't study more is because I would get sick of it, it would lose it's fun, and I would want to quit. Someone times you need to take a break, have a breather. What I would suggest to you is, taking like between a week and a month off, completely. Not going near anything thing to do with Kanji, grammar or vocabulary and just have some time off. Why don't you try to remember why you started learning Japanese is the first place? Why you like Japan? Without focusing on the bad parts of it all.
Bottom line - you will get through this, you just need to relax a bit, this sort of thing happens to everyone who is seriously studying Japanese. It's this sort of thing that stops all the anime kids and weeaboo retards from ever really being able to speak Japanese, you don't want to be like them do you?
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:16 am
geishaboy You've burnt yourself out. In a nut shell. Did you ever stop to think why your classmates don't know as many Kanji as you do, why they are not at your level? Either they are idiots (which could very well be the case) or rather they didn't take too much on, too fast. I get the same thing you are feeling from time to time, there are people in my university Japanese class who have been studying Japanese for 5 years more than I have, and I still have to tell them the readings of kanji and how to use certain grammar forms, but then, there is also a girl in my class who has been studying as long as I have and is well above my level. My current level being about JLPT level 2. I don't think thats too bad after 2 years of study, starting from scratch, but if I had studied more I could probably be at level one by now (well maybe not, but close). The reason I didn't study more is because I would get sick of it, it would lose it's fun, and I would want to quit. Someone times you need to take a break, have a breather. What I would suggest to you is, taking like between a week and a month off, completely. Not going near anything thing to do with Kanji, grammar or vocabulary and just have some time off. Why don't you try to remember why you started learning Japanese is the first place? Why you like Japan? Without focusing on the bad parts of it all. Bottom line - you will get through this, you just need to relax a bit, this sort of thing happens to everyone who is seriously studying Japanese. It's this sort of thing that stops all the anime kids and weeaboo retards from ever really being able to speak Japanese, you don't want to be like them do you? I agree with that. Maybe the reason why you knew more kanji than your classmates was your determination to learn more? But studying too much can run you down a little, like Geishaboy says. Maybe slow down a bit, and take a break if you need one, Mikagi-sensei. Don't focus on just the bad things. I mean, bad things happen everywhere, not just where you are and not just in Japan. Search for the good. And maybe you'll find that reason why you started learning Japanese, again ^^
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:14 pm
that happend to me when i was learning italian so now that i plan on learning japanese i know wat not to do..
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:07 pm
I Can Speak And Write Japanese Perfectly Because I Have To Becauxe I'm Half Japanese Oh Well At Least You Have A Choice
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:24 pm
It had happen to me on others stuff, because I try tho take a big bite at once. And did had a real challenge.
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:54 pm
I agree with gieshaboy. You need to take it a little slower and take a breather.
Perhaps, work on integrating what you already know with some translation
practice?
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:29 am
Take a break from it is what I can only really suggest. It happened to me with Japanese, too. But, now I'm back to learning it- however, it's because there's this girl at school who is trying to 'compete' with me at languages... She smells funny. confused
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:08 pm
Maybe you're moving too fast because you're so enthusiastic (which is a good/bad thing).
You never know, sometimes you have to take a break.
I was in Japanese Language school when I was younger and then there was this time period where I wasn't. Then when I started again a few years ago, I was the oldest in the class, but because there was an age disparity I was at a higher reading level, but I was over my head in the sense that we never speak English, which was hard.
You just fall in and out of it I think.
And the violent crime things...don't pay much attention to it--that type of thing is reported more in Japan because it's so unusual~the elementary school kid who got murdered in Kagoshima was another weird one. But overall, I feel safer in Japan than I ever would in the US.
We were walking around Tokyo at like 12 - 1 in the morning (not the best idea but...), and it's just really quiet. Violent crimes are just very out of the ordinary I would say. I mean, my cousin who is 6 walks to his school for like 20 minutes per trip alone, and this is in Tokyo.
Maybe find something else to take your time you spend learning Japanese.
Maybe take other courses which become demanding to your study time?
I'm not sure~
I hope it all turns out alright for you though.
biggrin
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