Journal mercedo's Journal: My Reading Assignment 7
Since I'm Japanese, I mean my native tongue is not English, it takes three times to five or more to complete reading journals here in comparison to native speakers. Recently I found lots of very interesting debates occurred sponteneously among Journal writers, and it is a favourable matter, Journal sections seemed to be less active than main page for a long time. I've been spending too many time in reading these journals, but since many posts appeared so rapidly simply I can't catch up with. So here I summarise my reading assignment.
This should be interesting
Abortion - What I think and why you should flame me
Read well, think well, then I will be able to write well.
Loved your summary (Score:1)
That hit the point! My mother tongue isn't English either, but I can assure you that my English has only improved over the years by reading slashdot and other English websites. It is indeed true that slashdot features a lot of spelling mistakes, but it's not important.
By reading, you simply enhance your knowledge about how to build sentences and the general structure of the language.
My personal credo is: "use a language, or lose a language". I
Re:Loved your summary (Score:1)
I am in a hurry to keep on reading other stuffs too, since we've got other 'journal erruptions' -this word refers to sporadic erruptions of journals with a lot of comments -at least more than 50, among those slashdot celebrities, I've got to catch up.
Re:Loved your summary (Score:1)
It's been a long time I've had +50 comments in my journals. I guess I'm not a celebrity ;-))
Re: (Score:2)
Re:What would you suggest (Score:1)
Doumo arigatoh gozaimasu -Thank you very much
Gomennasai -I'm sorry
Sumimasen -Excuse me
Hajimemashite -Nice to meet you
Doh'itashimashite -Not at all
Banzai -Bravo
I recommed you to start memolising some common greeting phrases. If you used one of these expressions, their attitude would greatly change.
Then you learn hiragana/katakana -Japanese phonetic words, each contains 50 characters. It's not difficult to memolise those characters.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:What would you suggest (Score:1)
You see there are many types of non-native speakers. Chinese people use 5000 Chinese characters, that used to be completely the same before the World War II, and Koreans learn 1500 Chinese characters, although they ceased to use them in their daily life. So naturally both people can learn Japanese much faster than people in other countries. In standar Japanese 1850 Chinese characters are used frequently. Besides