MANZAI 2013! as in asin women rush hour !!!

  

  

muramoto is on the LEFT SIDE!!!

So I am a fan of muramoto GESU and all. television with muramoto is interesting. anyways I never went around to watch his actual win that propelled him to success. he’s popular and unpopular. but anyways it did NOT disappoint and it’s definitely a manzai style/strategy i’ve never thought of or seen before them.  I think I’ve seen 2 other manzai compeittions finales and i always like 1 or 2 or maybe 3 groups and the rest are either eh, iffy, not funny, stupid, etc. I know japanese learners are allllllllways like omgs manzai iso hard understand blahblahblahb but let’s get one thing straight. the most important thing is that you enjoy watching it and that you actually find it thus you actually want to understand/catch what they’re saying. some of them are really hard to understand for me while others are so easy to understand and i understand 100% (NONSTYLE FOR EXAMPLE) there’s varios factors like bad pronunciation/enunciation (these peopl are SUPER NERVOUS  or they just suck at pronunciation/enuncitation. it’s true… they do people put like that on tv in japan) the setting if people laugh or clap at the worst timing and your number of hours spent listening/hearing japaense.  but anyways i don’t think you have to undrestand 99% of the manzai to tell if that humor works for you or not. like i had no motivation to look up or re-listen to some of the manzai that i only undrestood 60% because i can’t catch what they’re saying because from what i did understand and what i can infer from everything else like facial expressions,  body language … their humor just was not funny. like CHIDORI was SHIT to me. as much as i LOVE DAIGO and i squeeeled like crazy when i found out that he and matayoshi are TIGHT their manzai is shit. it’s jus tnot funny. i don’t understand and i don’t care to understand. i would rather use that time to watch manzai i do like.

anyways HERE IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THEIR WINNING MANZAis (they performed twice)  thanks to the wonderful blogging japanese peeps. there’s also partial transcrption of other conbi acts but like i said most aren’t interesting.

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s167/sh/622320a8-4f46-4150-b0e6-a94dde2cada4/aea304350262f1b0d4a42343152aed5f

if you don’t find their manzai funny then… go find other manzai you find funny.

 

Dokusho

So I have been draggging with the reading of books in japanese because. I’ve been indulging in English books. However the other reason is I steered off the path of AJATT which encourages people to skip pages of the book. Yes I should give books a chance but sometimes  you don’t need to read that many pages to figure out you don’t loek it and thus start skipping to the end etc. the past few books have been on the shitty side unfortunately and for some reason I’m being way too nice and actually reading every sentence and page and only start skipping when its too late. Reading should be fun and automatic… Not all books are equal. Btw here’s are some amazing words you can use to describe your reading experience

括弧の中の文章

地の文

Well at least I find them useful.

http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/6396999.html

Anyways i I wanted to share a finding. I wrote my thoughts about my book on dokusho and thought shit I wrote shizen to… Shouldn’t it be shizen ni but then I thought maybe I’m doing this cause I heard it somewhere. Lo and behold both exist with different to nuances and I happened to choose the correct one!! I feel proud of myself and it really drives the point home that immersion and AJATT is amazing. It’s amazing the stuff I pick up without even trying. I would never notice or bother to put shizen ni in my deck

 

heres my kansou.. Btw I have not posted on Lang-8 in ages and I certainly don’t feel like usig it

http://i.bookmeter.com/b/4062764423

 

owtwosavealif3
途中で飛ばし読みを敢行したら自然と最後の数ページのミステリーの種明かしというか物語が綺麗に纏めて終わらせようとする文章を読みました。やっぱり全ページ読んでも読まなくても大して変わらない気がします。観光の本を読んでるぎがしてならなくて非常に読み甲斐を感じませんでした。私にとって観光本って辞書と似ていて読みたくないです。辞書で知らない単語を調べることは好きですけど本みたいに読むわけないです。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL hoko-tate

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so i’ve seen this show a few times. there have been some interesting set-ups but for the most part the battles are kinda meh… I generally don’t have motiviation to watch anymore eps but then I recently i found out about these 2 battles that are just HILARIOUS.  I was laughing along with the tv talent people~ it just goes to show you… you never know what potential something has

you have to sign into youtue to watch and here’s the title in case you gotta google to watch it

ぽこたて 絶対にイカない男 VS 絶対にイカせる男

 

and the girls version is

「絶対にイカない女」VS「絶対にイカせる電マ男

Lol of course this isn’t hokotate. It is pokotate but seriously they copied everything from hokotate with the music and everything

Learning KOREAN : an example as to why the dictionary is shit

so if you’ve been learning korean long enough you will encounter words in korea media that OBVIOUSLY are not in the damn dictionary. i can just tell it’s not kango  (han -uh in nkorean? the words made up of chinese charcters ) and most likely it’s not a regular word. it’s some sort of slang or made up word and it makes you wonder when did they came up with this word.

CASE IN POINT this snl clip with jun somi from 1:25 . i actually watched produce 101 but some episodes were fast-forwarded so much because ti’s f’in boring.  and i watched sixteen for a few eps and never finished. i may go back to it one of these days.

I figured i could learn some korean from somi’s snl skit so i asked for the translation since the video already has the transcription

http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11159337761

낄끼빠빠　is korean version of KY = kuuki yomenai. i think it will most likely reign longer than KY. i don’t thikn anyone says KY anymore… people wll still say kkuuki yomenai.  for the korean version of KY… it just seems practical and convenient so it may have staying power. and to be quite frank i don’t want to learn slang/shortented-ersions of words/phrase only to have them go extinct on me

when i looked up the meaning of gggi-gi-ppapa-appaa- the japanese site was dated for 2015 ~~~ usualyl when i look up “newly made” korean words they’re much older lol…  so this is THE FRESHEST korean slang that i know lol. it’s not even slang… it’s just a convenience thing.

ugh stinky people in public

besides being an introvert this is the other huge reason why i hate going out in public. by stinky people i mean perfume and cologne. by excess i mean i can’t walk behind those people without suffocating. here’s an example: I get out of my car in the parking lot to head inside the cvs and i notice there’s a white girl walking in front of me. i’ve learned past mistakes and now just assume the worst so i hold my breath to prevent the assault to my senses. other times I look at the girl and think maybe she doesn’t douse herself with shit and i don’t bother holding my breath in and i get hit with the shit. It’s not like i’m walking that closely behind and I get hit with it.  because of these awful experiences i employ certain strategies…

assess the person that i will get in relatively close proximity due to me having to walk pass or get near or walk behind. the following makes the likelihood higher like person being a girl, a white girl, a person that cares about their appearance such as putting on makeup or doing some hairstyle or some fashionable duds (or what they think is casual chic that i would never ever wear ie leggings and vicose/polyster/nylon shirts)   or the person doesn’t care that much about their appearance. but anyways of course it’s not just white girls but if it a white girl i just assume the worst.

walk slower to avoid the problem but  still hold my breath just in case some of the smell lingres

hold my breath as soon as I get anywhere near these people. holding my breath isn’t that difficult since it will be only 10-15 seconds. usually this strategy woroks really well because i don’t take a breath until it looksl ike hte coast is clear. but obviously if you don’t start holding your breath early enough because you misunderestimate the person or you let your guard down and assume the person won’t stink like shit based on the lack of indicators.  but seriously if it’s a WHITE PERSON i really need to assume.

i noticed that multiple people wear the same or really similar perfume and i just cannot wrap my head around as to how the smell is pleasant ??? i can understand how someone can like th e smell of something floral or citrus-y (i honestly know perfumes are full of toxic chemicals and i don’t wear them). but some of the scents are just like wtf… i don’t understand what positive words people would use to describe them. they just smell like shit. CHEAP SHIT.

i don’t go out in public that often but i think this problem has became more prevalent in the past years because i don’t remember being so bothered this in the past… nowadays i’m like deathly afraid of encountering white girls in public.  just in general if i have to pass a female person in public and they seem to have makeup on etc then i hold my breath before i pass them because someetimes the smell is just so strong and pungenet and musky and unpleasant… they just make me want to move to the countryside and get some fresh air.  i’m curious if this problem is worse in other countries.. it’s pretty awful here with cheap perfumes available everywhere not t hat expensive ones are any less offensive.

REUSABLE MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS

So I am making this post because like most users of reusable menstrual products I WISH I knew about them sooner. By that I mean I didn’t know that was an option. All I heard is that back centuries ago they used rags. I wondered that was sufficient and whatnot and I just didn’t want to think about that since it’s not my problem. I thought that we were “blessed” to be living in a modern era with the “technology”to deal with periods. I did my fair share of googling about periods when I got it since I just couldn’t talk about it with anyone but I never ever ever came across reusable products. I am certain that I found out about these products from youtube when youtube recommended videos on the side.

anyway my first reaction was “GROSS” like anyone else. But I also thought that the girl made some really interesting points that were persusasive and valid.

here’s the list of reasons that pushed me…
-comfort – this is so big especially with sleeping with the heat. i don’t have problems with getting yeast infections or anything like that but it is uncomfortable. one thing i hated was how that stay-dry mesh thing sticks to me. you know a japnese youtuber was saying how american pads are like diapers because they’re so huge and she has to bring the megami pads from japan… also i read some japaense girl’s blog post where she said how they american pads are so unbreathable and plasticy. from reading this information i think most likely japanese and korean pads are probably superior in comfort but they’re probably still just as bad for your health. THE OTHER ASPECT of this is that for me is that my period stops an starts after a certain point so i really hated the idea of suffering the discomfort of the pads when it wasn’t even “necesary.” i was reading on a japanese informtaional spammy interenet site that it’s a bad sign if it is’nt a “continuous flow” but that’s jus thow it is for me…

-healthier. the disposable stuff are really bad for you and obviously if you get the “organic cotton” brand you’ll burn through a lot of cash real fast. they are chock full of chemicals. so if you’re a person that is health conscious and you like “natural” “organic” food you should also look into this. i’m sure the disposable products increase your risk of cancer. they say it doesn’t contain that much so it’s not that bad for you. i know the saying is that anything can be toxic even water if you consume too much. (some poor frat pledges died from drinking too much water😦 ) .. but i just don’t want to expose myself to carcinogens and irritants if i don’t need to.
-save money
-reusable so there’s no pressure or reason to try to “stretch out” your supplies. adding to this you can change as often as you want
– better for the environment. the stats for how long it takes for diapers, pads to break down are incredibly depressing and the sheer volume is mind-blowing and hard to imagine.
-you don’t have to go to the pharmacy or big box store to stock up (I’ve never done this before… by myself. i imagine if i did i would be super stressed out and hope there’s a girl cashier working and if not i would go to another store lol…and try to buy other things i don’t really particularly need or aren’t even good deals)
-lighter,shorter periods – so this isn’t a guarantee but it’ definitely an attractive incentive! there’s also less cramps but i don’t really have this problem. i for one do not experience a difference. -customizable – length, absorbancy, thickness (the thinnest one i’ve found is fig leaves pads or novel red’s ninja pad. they’re both pretty damn thin), material, design, color…. hell there’s even ones in cute shapes like i saw one shaped as bear head or something

Im’ sure someone can make a list that’s just as long vouching for disposable products but for me comfort aspect alone makes reusables trumps disposables. i really feel bad for babies. i wonder if they are in perpetual discomfort or are the products better now?

The way i transitioned was… i was totally turned off but curious after watchin probably one of bree’s videos. Like everyone was thinking i thought why is this girl making all these videos on pads and menstruation and “GROSS.” the idea repulsed me from the years of “condtioning” you could say just because i’m so used to the “modern solution.” So I jumped on the free liner + pay for shipping deal from luna pads & party in my pants just to try. that was enough to win me over. it wasn’t perfect, in fact i don’t even use them now but that got me to order stuff from etsy. i’m not poor and i work full time so i got enough so i can wash them all at the end of the cycle. i’m still very conscientious of how much i spend becuase i tihnk of the suffering and the woork i had to do to make that money. i know some people buy 6 then wash them in the middle or make their own or buy used ones etc etc to save money. i did not do that… BUT YOU KNOW i was thinking if someobdy ordered one pad from one seller they could be turned off from reusables if that pad didn’t work out. i highly recommend checking out different sellers because not all reusables are equal. like i said there are different designs, prints, toppers, cores, thickness. don’t base your ultimate decision to convert or not based on one pad.

other tip: consider wing extenders, try different underwear

recommended videos
toppers :

cores

other videos

 

 
here are sellers I recommend if somehow i was able to interest somebody and they’re interested. of course do as much as research as possible before purchasing. definitely think before you place your order. despite all the positive and rave reviews if it doens’t work for you, it doesn’t work for you. i recommend getting 1 or 2 from one seller in different lengths or absorbencies. also remember you usually get what you pay for. even if it seems like such a good deal with 6 or 7 or for x dollar if it doens’t work that’s x dollars and 6 or 7 pads down the drain.

yurtcraft -‘nuf said. great sewing
mimi’s dreams – go for the hemp core! i recommend the 10-in
fig leaves pads ( you hvae to join her facebook group otherwise you will never get one) – probably the thinnest one i have and the only one with a special snap that isn’t a circle. it’s a star!!!
novel red (they had black friday sale in 2015) – for liners and pads . they have the ninja pads and the crushed velvet!! they also has obv now but… i haven’t tried that.
tree huggers (they have black friday sales) – i have organic bamboo velous from them and don’t even interest in minkee.
wee essentials – for liners
sleeping doe – flawless sewing and quality like yurtcraft
county cloth creations – some people love them but they’re just okay to me
green4less- great prices for the quality. i was impressed with the stitching and the general rule is that the pads look better in person than in pictures. i think they’re especially cost-effective if you want huge overnight pads
annybells essentials – amazing sewing
cloth dreams – obv
precious star pads – she’s the only one i can find that has BAMBOO charcoal which is a stay dry facric. also the prices on her wet bags are fantastic. even though the shipping was RIDICULOUS since i’m the usa the wet bags offset the shipping costs wet bags are so over-priced on etsy
mama bear baby wear – i like her tuckables… great price and quality not interested in her pads though. plus ihear they are VERY wide s oyou should ask for an extra snap if you’re gipong to order from her.

cozy folk –

COZY cloth – customizable and thin. i’m not too into flannel
domino pads – some peope love them and their oyutube video is very persuasive and she givers great reasons on why she designed her pads the way she did but i don’t love them and definitely pricey.

mothermoon pads??

cleaning routines:
of course this is an intimidating aspect and i for one cannot throw in used pads without doing any pre-washing. i feel grossed out about that.

ELIZABETH’S VIDEO.

so what I do is a variation of elizabeth’s video.
I soak all of them in cold wtaer in a plastic trashcna for about 2 hours or so then dump the water out. then i fill up the bucket with cold water and add a mix of oxi-clean and scrapings of buncha’s farmer stick for 12-24 hours. i put hot water (not hot to the point where the plastic melts) and oxi-clean and the scrapings in a plastic bottle and shake it and take the cap off. i dump the water out again and then throw the pads in the washing machine and wash with a full scoop ofnellie’s detergent. dry them in the dryer then hang to try using a contraception with a lot of clips.

i modified her method by doing an initial water soak like this because after 2 hours there’s a good amount of saturation and loosening that’s happened. AND if i soak it any longer it”ll turn into the “soaking method” which REEKS.

if you care about stains you have to check for staining before you throw them in the washing macine and most definitely before you throw them in the dryer.

i was intrigued by cakefate’s new video on her updated cleaning method which REALLY gets them clean.

VIDEO ON LINERS

i recommend wee essentials.

I’m a convert. i am american so i knmow americans tend to be defensive and dismissive…. also i am aware that reusable cloth pads is very niche still at least in america. i understand exactly how people are grossed out because i used to feel that way. i haven’t talked to anyone about this in real life but i definitely want more people to know about this option and by that i mean really understand the option. i know it’s very easy to be close-minded and i think to some extent there’s this pressure that you have to to react with an “EW” on top of the visceral reaction to dismiss this concept from all those years of conditioning and lack of information.

anime review: shirobako episode 1

status: DROPPED

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so usually when people rave and recommend anime on their blogs i usually brush it off and ignore that persons recommendations with the assumption that their taste in anime iscomplete shit. for some reason i didn’t do that yesterday and actually checked this out. genshiken was shit and so is this.  in  the middle of it i was thikning hmmm i’d rather watch anime giga or tlak/variety shows or interviews with seiyuu /anime director people, geinin, tv talent etc etc. I think that would be more interesting, informational, and most of all efficient.

i’ve mentioned before on my blog i’m sure that there are tell-tale signs that an anime is shit and this anime had those but for some reason i still watched the episode till the end though very distracted with my smartphone towards the end. i fast-forwarded here and there like the annoying car driving scenes. for me personally, the most interesting part of episode 1 is the part where the girl is listening to the voice actresses chit-chatting on the radio because it reminds me of japnaese talk/vairety shows which  i love plus they didn’t talk at a snail’s pace. i geniunely found that to be the most interesting part of the episode.

anyways here’s some tell-tale signs that the anime is not wroth watching:

the scene where the girl meets that other woman who is well endowed and at one point they use a strange camera angle to emphasize how big are tits are. it’s just so unnecssary and it doesn’t fit the anime and it’s just been OVER-DONE so many f’in times in anime. they did other stuff to emphasize her tits but it’s jut like… why don’t you use that energy and effort and time on improving the damn DIALOGUE.

all the characters are shit… all the characters look exactly the same minus hair color or style.  the first 5 minutes was like…. they all look the same. i cannot remember their names. i also roll my eyes at their names lol. it remiinded me of k-on… which i’ve never seen but i would assume it would be a very boring anime.

the blonde girl who works in the anime company… i was shaking my head with a resounding no. empty moe is just pointless.  i think it’s cheap throwing in some random archetype design blahblahb… it made me barf.

every time they introduced anime stafff…. and then then character opened his/her moiuth .  i kept saying to myself THIS IS SO BORING. his voice is SO BORING and is what i predicted.  i was thinking yep this guy has the boring voice, this guy has the cool guy voice, uh huh just don’t even bother making them tlak… it’s so mundane and makes me wonder what’s the point of making this anime.

no one seems to have a personality. so BLAND

 

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the show is  very bland. all the dialogue is so boring in every way. the delivery, content, emotion are all lacking. my biggest problem with the dialogue is that it is frivolous.

the show feels very contrived, fake, and draggy. there was a part where one of the anime worker preson says omg x is isn’t done=. do you know what this means?that means x can’t y or blahblahblah. and that means y can’t x blahblaha. i think he kept repeating that multiple times after saying that. it’s such an unnatural way to talk. it feels like some kind of shitty anime worker trainer video with bad acting where they act out situations where shit goes wrong and explain the implications of that. half the dialogue is like this. it’s so stilted and unnatural. i felt really uncomfortable watching it from the fakeness. also watching the characters “freak out” about the “problems” was just irritating and trivial and “how gives a shit” ” get the fuck over it”. usually if I’m into the anime i’ll be interested in how they solve it and feel excitement or thrill or whatever but here i’m lke let me fastfoward 5 minutes to see how they resolve it. it’s so draggy and TEDIOUS.

i  was reading ove rmy previous posts on slayers next, iron leaguer,  battle athlets victory. and i must say my sentiments are so so different towards this anime compared to those. i cannot watch shit.

another anime i will check out due to that blog is shigatsu no uso because he just had to say it was like welcome to the nhk! I recommend this anime highly to anyone who likes anime or hates it.  but then he said it turns to shit so he recommends not watching it. i just want to check it out and see if iget the welcome to the nhk vibe or welcome to nhk leves of greatness or addictiveness.  i have no problem skipping episodes, fast-forwarding, dropping,,,, so i don’t feel pressured to waste x hours of my life😀 k.

no pictures of anime here bigecause quite frakly they all look the same. plus i ain’t wasting time screenshotting shit.

How much do you understand?

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***super happy to share the images that i’ve taken while watching my innocent japanese tv 😀
I actually have quite a few topics that I want to write on that I have on evernote. some of them i’m warming them up bcause I don’t want to write about something until I really understand the subject matter. I like to be thourough in my posts. there’s other stuff that I want to write about but I can tell if’l lbe long-winded and labor-intensive because i’ll want to flesh it out as much apossible and include all the links and book
titles that i’ve come across. BTW I thought the lsat hunger games movie was the least awful out of them all in that stuff actually happened since it is the last movie (in all the other movies literally nothin ghappens yet they act like shit actually happened and they make a big deal about it. my eyes roll behind my head and beyond. I only only only bitch I was dragged to all 4. so please do not bitch at me. likewise everyone has the write to hate on taylor swift etc etc because if you work in retail you will hear their damn songs over and over. so yes we have the right to hate on them we are being FORCED to listen to their music. that’s why mainstream artists get hate because people are FORCED to hear their songs for the umpteenth time). however it’s still an awful movie and I was especially irritated at the part where the person who is going to get executed was acting arrogant because i’ve heard so MANY horrifying execution stories from north korea. that scene really irked me.

ANYWAYS on to the MAIN TOPIC!
the plight of heritage language learners
i joined the ranks of heritage language learners about 4 years into my japanese studies. there were feeble, futile attempts in the past using awful methods that I was exposed to during my compulsory education. those attempts were failures so I do not count those.

anyways I wanted to explain my stance on the question “how much do you understand”

i run tinto situations where i’m asked this question like if the tv is in my heritage language and I happen to be there with not much to do except converse or look at MY smart phone, eat, whatever. THE TV has been news, documentary show, talk show, variety show etc etc whatever. and 99% of the time the show does not interest me one bit. I might pay attention to it here and there if something piques my interest but let’s be real that shit in korean not japaense. part of the reason why I think my japanese studies went so well is because they have great television and the entertainment in japanese is limitless. they have so much going for them and theyhave a lot of freedom when it comes to tvcompared ot korea and even to america sometimes (it feels like that). even if I tried to do the same thing that I did with japanese in korean which is not possible because korean doesn’t use hanja (which makes vocabulary learning extremely difficult and almost impossible at least for me),… so even if I did that it wouldn’t have worked because they don’t have geinin. yes korea does have interesting tv and I have to search for it properly or fast-forward the show properly or figure out which episodes of the show will hold my interest based on the guest etc but anyways my love and obsession for japanese tv is uncontainable. if the enteratinment that I get from the “best” japanes tv come across is a 10/10, it would be a 7/10 or something like that for korean tv. that’s how it is to me. of course korean tv offers stuff that japanese tv can’t and I appreciate that (they don’t have jessi and korea sure as hell does not and will never have a matsuko) and love watching it for that reason.

BUT ANYWAY as you can imagine when somebody asks me that question I say ” I don’t know.” I don’t really expand on it beyond that and run around the bushes. if I am prodded enough i’ll say 40 % or whatever depending on how boring the show is to me. of course i’m not saying this to make it sound like as if I do undersatnd 99% but i’m saing 40% becaues it’s boring…. further explanation below.

What I’m truly thinking in my head is I don’t care. I have no interest in understanding this show. that is the biggest factor as to whether or not this questions is answerable. I don’t really care how much I undersatnd the show so one I am not paying attention to it… so part of this question is asking me to pay attention to this show and assess how much I understand. but I have no desire to do that, if I did I might be like okay it’ll be around 40% but it could be half-assed attempt as in I am paying attention but i’m not laser pin-point focused and putting all my energy and concentration towards understanding and catching the words and the sounds and whatnot. maybe the percentage would be slightly higher or even 90% if I were to go balls to walls and use all my energy towards that. but at the sametime comprehension should be effortless… if I have to tax myself to get 90% comprehension that’s not my true comprehension ability. that’s the way I see it. BTW i think RAP is really helpful with comprehension as far as that automatic, effortless comprehension is concerned. i’ve been  into rap but unpretty star sure as hell does encourage more attention and interest as well as zico lol. BY THE WAY THE PRIMARY ALBUMS WITH THE RAP/SINGING SONGS ARE AMAZING!!! the albu mthat features jessi, iron, benzino, rap monster. that album is an A+ IN MY BOOK! i listened to it probbably at least a 100 times. i was so obsessed with this album. i remember the first time iheard the song iwth iron and choa i wasn’t drawn in but after a while i was addicted. also also i was obessed with epik high’s 악당  && 비켜 　どけ　And　悪党 in japanese not in the respective orders.    I know with language learning you tend to compare yourself and you might have an urge to brag about whtaever you learned or know in however short span of time. I suppose  being asked this question is kind of an opportunity for that but first and foremost I have no desire to undersatnd said show. if sokmebody bragged to me that they read japanese newspapers aloud (keyword here is aloud because they have a lot of readings and sometimes I forget readings or i’m not sure which reading it is or I have no f’in clue which comes up rather frequently due to all the last names and locations in japan) fluently or effortless or whtaever adjective is impressive i’ll be like cool but I wouldn’t get my panties in a bunch and be all jealous or anything like that. the reason is that I have no interest in the news so I can’t comprehend why you’d spend so much time reading newspapers to get to that point ( i also understand that yto’ud only get to that point is if you do it consistently or did it al ot which is only possible if you enjoy it unless you’re a masochist) . if somebody said that about a movie that I only understood 80% of then I would be jealous and feel motivated to up my game and get my listening comprehension and inference on.

the question I s pointless to me. it’s not “do you understand”, it’s “do you find this show interesting or entertaining.” I don’t care how “bad” I look by saying 20% or whatever arbitrary number. I have no desire to undersatnd the show so for me to ansewr the question is …. wah? I don’t gain anything by trying to undrestand or try to figure out how much I understand it. I know the question is innocent and the person doesn’t have any specific intention behind that question but for me it comes with all these connotations so I am bothered. Of course i have no energy to explain this or anything like that. ALSO the heritage language learning forum on that big famous language learning forum is SUPER SUPER INTERESTING and i believe i have quoted many entries from  that forum on my tumblr and they were mostly concerning korean but i have tkane stuff from the heritage learner thread as well. but aynways, that’s an interesting thread to check out whether or not you ar ea heritage language learner or you are obligated to be one but you refused to accept it.  it was encouraging and there was a lot of interesting discussion and analysis and anecdotes there.

 

i really should try to find some more 19 금  korean tv shows. witch hunt seemed promising at first but then now i’m like it feels like eveyr episode is the same and hence my motivation to pay attention goes down alot but then some of the guests pique my ineterest so we’lll see. it’s interesting how they talk about sex on this show. i feel like they never say it. it’s round-about or it’s mentioned somewhere  nonchalantly in  a way that’s unnoticeable by using words that aren’t the actual words. the best way i can describe it is if you don’t pay atention you won’t know what they’re talking about or you won’t realize that they’re tlaking about sex or some other 19+ topic.  in fact at one point of the people eon the show ask for clarification that you are asking/talking/insinuating  about “that”. they’re very sneaky with those topics. you’d tihnk since it’s 19 금  they’d be more explicit, straight-out, and whatnot. if someone can come up with a better explanation please let me know!  sometimes they have ome interesting talk! I thought korean was super against non-martial sex for some reason (i’ve no idea why…probably because they’re tv is so sterile… christinaity isn’t that widespread and i don’t know what buddhism or confuciianms’s view on that is) but from the show i’m not getting that impression

 

 

Song lyrics to Resistance by Earls Court [Japanese Rock]

I love this song!!! The first time I heard the song the teikoushite /doushite part really caught my ear. I googled and of course no one wrote the damn lyrics down so i had to do it myself and then ask for help. and OMG there’s only 300 views on the MV and there’s no comments! it’s so sad because the song is so good. hmm the other link has 5000 views but still tthat’s really low😦 it says in the description they love UK rock so i guess it sounds like uk rock. just wanted to share a song i like with the lyrics for your japanese larning. there’s no japanese to learn from the lyrics for me but nonetheless i love knowing the lyrics know. I gotta do a wayaku search for snsd’s new songs!!! minus party… that song is iffy and i hope they come out with japanese versions~~ I love the japaneseness of the lyrics when they come out with japanese versions.

http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11149591111?fr=chie_my_notice_newans

【 レジスタンス 】

「 安心な僕らは いつでも旅に出ようぜ 」
言うはず無い言葉は 何でも歌に詰め込め

She’ll never know
Tomorrow never knows

※ 抵抗して 意味があるの ？
ねえ どうして そればかりで

愛情って
何もかも あげなけりゃ 育てられないの ？

めそめそして
愛ではないよ きっと違うよ
めそめそして
こんなにも 今 そばに居るのに
どうして Yeah

[ 間 奏 ]

完全に 意味無く やる気を出す真夜中に
賢明な僕は やっぱり明日にするよ

She’ll never know
Tomorrow never knows

※ 繰り返し

熱狂して Yeah Yeah

I am not down or depressed about my speaking skills in korean, japanese or english

I find it irritating to read those omgs my korean speaking is shit blahblahblah. i’m tihnking no duh you don’t speak korean ever so why would you get better? you don’t practice the piano, so why the hell do you expect yourself to be able to play some fancy beethoven song perfectly. i wish everyone would just read ajatt and SHUT UP.

<- omg i want that frog plushie with the booooooots

one of those things that every language learner is probably dubious of is the just keep speaking strategy. i have my doubts that you will continue using incorrect korean/japanese/whateve rlanguage and you’ll get bad speaking habits ingrained in you etc. i was watching happy togehter then i found this other clip becase i wanted to know more about julien and fabio and  they’re good looking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lj4ZjJUt2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSTLZHkS44d i find the improvement to be so encouraging and fascinating but at the same time it’s reasonable that somebody will get really good at korean after living there for 10 years. what’s surprising if someone does’t speak any korean even though they lived there for 10 years but i don’t want to judge people beause it’s ultimately up to that person if they want to learn korean and how they want to their time and what they value and what their circumstances are blahblahblah.  anyways what i really liked and noticed is that he went from being unsure of the conjugation ??? and other things to just speaking korean.  speaking korean seems really natural to him and it probably is. on happy together they mentioned how chatty julienis and how outgoing and assertive he is. that really hit me because that’s the complete opposite of me and like i said if you don’t speak you can’t expect yourself to get better. i’m just not a chatty person and i’d rathe rust listen or do something else. that’s just not my personality. for that reason speaking isn’t one of my goals so i don’t worry about it or get mad at myself over not reacing unrealistic expectations becaise i have realistic expecations of myself based on my personality, what i do in korean, what i want to do in korean.  i hate reading those peopl’e blogs or posts where they bitch about how they suck at speaking even though they clearly don’t even bother speak all tha tmuch and even if you go out of your way to try to have a conversation for an hour everyday you’re not going to get immediate results and if you’re a chatty betty then there’s going to a lot silence during your conversations or you’re going to do mostly listening. and if you can’t even understand poeple why are you bitching about your crappy speaking skills. on an unrelated note i learned a korean word from an unexpected source. NICKELODEAN! so i checked out make it pop because i read up on the megan lee news and i love her cover of a korean song that she has on her channel that was also covered a member of spica . they have korean in the logo and i had no idea what i meant. looked it up and of course it’s one of those “new”words that was made up. in short it means be happy