Recently I have become aware of certain processes that were previously foreign to me, with some minor reflections about this Japanese voyage.  For example, have you ever been aware that your thoughts occur in a certain language?  I mean, at the back of one's mind this is obvious, but it's never the sort of thing that one dwells upon.  Well lately in the half-hour or so before I drift off to sleep I've found myself attempting to compose little things to say, introductions and the like.  I don't know why, but I do.  (I know, I'm an odd duck.)  Well, as I know a whole two japanese words and a song, these little phrases find themselves translated into French!  Yes, French.  That being the only other language that I'm vaguely familiar with.  Fat lot of good that it will do me.

  

Anyways, that wraps up my bizarre and rather pointless ramble.

 
   

 


 
 
PACIderm on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
HA! ...ok i'm not gonna lie, i have done it.....don't tell neone
ScarletSapphire on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Considered the language thing, or composed phrases?  I'm confused (apparently that's not too hard today .)

PACIderm on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
well both but i was referring to the latter...in french that is. it's fun, cuz it doesn't matter if i make mistakes or am totally nonsensical in my own heead! lol
ScarletSapphire on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Very true, mistakes abound but the potential functionality is refreshing as compared to rigid useless structuring of Mme Brochu is something I find refreshing.  It's a very calm activity too, is it not?  A lovely distraction at certain times.
artthouwithme on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Hm.  I definitely remember thinking in Dutch when I went over there, because there were some things you just couldn't totally translate into English, so it was just easier to think in broken Dutch.  I never dreamed in it, but I'd think in it on purpose sometimes.  You'll probably get immersed enough to do the same.
ScarletSapphire on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
The idioms, I'd imagine, would be the intranslatable bits?  I suppose I shall have to find out.  Dun dun DUN!  I hope that I shall become fluent enough to think, speak, and dream in Japanese, though it'll take a lot of work!  Ah well, I don't think I'll be able to confuse it with any other language, but then that remains to be tested.

artthouwithme on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Are you going to learn to recognize kanji or katakana?  I probably didn't spell those right.
ScarletSapphire on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
I have to recognise both of those, and another one too.  (Darn it, I can't remember the name!  It starts with an 'h' . . .)  Katakana is only for foreign words in Japan (such as "hamburger"), so it won't be used so much as the one that I forget the name of, which is used for Japanese words.  I doubt I'll learn the 2 000 kanji characters that children are supposed to know by the time that they graduate highschool, but I'll pick up enough to survive, I'm sure.  Learning to speak it, too, will be a challenge.  Blah.
artthouwithme on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Hirigana or Hiragana.  I remember that because my friend was trying to learn it on her own one time.
ScarletSapphire on
Re: Une Petite Ramble
Hiragana.  I learned this week, hehe.  Yes, I'm a little slow on the uptake.

 
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