日本語のしけんが悪かった

[tsukikage]

あのしけんはたいへんだった。　月曜日にあると思ってたから、まだあまり勉強しなかった。　それから、ザー・トライブでとてもおそくなった。　犬ちゃんといたいけど、かれは今アルバイトをしている。
じゃあ、今帰って、ひるねをする。　またね！

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[kasumi-ishida.livejournal.com]

Gah, I was just feeling good about my Japanese after watching Card Captor Sakura and understanding about 75% of it and then I read this XD I think I understand like half of it, but the kanji don't help =P Sigh... ;B

[robotphobic.livejournal.com]

I see you're an exchange student, too... How long have you been here? I've only been in Japan (Beppu) for about two months, so I'm still pretty wide-eyed and stumbling all the time, lol; hopefully you're doing better than I am.

Don't be intimidated by the kanji; they're a bitch to learn, but are pretty helpful after you know them. A friend told me about Jim Breen's WWWJDIC (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/wwwjdic/), which is a really thorough, easy-to-use online kanji dictionary that supports SKIP code searching. It's really helped me out; you should check it out if you're having trouble.

[kasumi-ishida.livejournal.com]

I've been here almost three months now. I've been gone for exactly three months, but I didn't come here (Osaka) until the 20th so yeah. What exchange organization are you with, or are you on a college exchange? I'm in high school and went with YFU... so yeah, before I came I knew absolutely no kanji so I figure that having learned almost 100 by now and not studying them that much is an accomplishment =P Thanks for the link! :D I haven't exactly been doing good overall... Host family problems. However, right now I'm alright.

[robotphobic.livejournal.com]

Learning 100 kanji in two months is incredible. Are you learning them mostly just from day-to-day life, or from textbooks? Whatever you're doing, I'd like to try it, lol.

I'm on a reciprocal exchange program through my university, so I'm just staying in the dormitory here and generally avoiding the homestay situation. My family hosted a German foreign exchange student for a year when I was sixteen, and the host family dynamic was just incredibly complicated; I don't envy you your position. It's tempting to try to just become a cohesive family straightaway in a situation like that, but at the same time it can be so difficult to merge a complete stranger into an already established family, especially if there are linguistic or cultural barriers. I know that it's a tremendously rewarding experience if things go well, but it really is difficult, in my opinion. I hope that things work out with your host family, and I really admire you for doing what you're doing; best of luck. <3

[kasumi-ishida.livejournal.com]

It's getting closer to three months now, actually, but I have studied kanji for only about two because before that I wasn't very confident with hiragana and katakana ^^* I've been learning kanji through everyday life and through these Kumon worksheets that the exchange program gives us. You might want to Google for it, as it is incredibly helpful. I'm on the C level and because of that and everyday life I know around 100 kanji. My friend on the F level now knows 350 kanji and has been here for the same amount of time (he had a head start, though, as he knew some kanji before he left).

The host family thing IS incredibly difficult. With my old host family, not only did they not tell me a lot of the things I was doing wrong, which is purely a Japanese cultural thing, but they also were in their heads comparing me to the exchange student they had before which I'm sure created many problems, too, hence why I had to leave. Now with this family, I am taking it as a good thing that they don't always say, "Our old exchange student..." and stuff like that. They are much more relaxed, although I am super far from my school now (1 hour and 45 minutes) and the suburb of Osaka they live in isn't nearly as pretty :( But yeah, things are getting better. Being in a host family really helps you to learn Japanese culture, and I think it makes studying Japanese easier since you HAVE to use it on a daily basis to communicate. So yeah, by the time I'll leave I'll be fluent and I *hope* to know around 1000 kanji before I leave, but we'll see how that goes. Thanks a lot for the comment! <33