Manga and music news

[beck]

I'm sad to report (for those that actually follow the manga that is) that there will be 2 more installments to BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad before the series ends. I mean sure it was bound to end soon but I can't believe that the end is so near. *weeps*

So thank you from the bottom of my heart Harold Sakuishi for making such an awesome manga that has made this girl's rock-n-roll heart twitter in glee!

~*~

In music news, Beat Crusaders are releasing their 7th album "popdod" for their 10th anniversary in June. You can find all the info as to what goodies they are throwing in as well as ordering info at beat_crusaders.

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Re: Japanese

[toriru4ever.livejournal.com]

Hey Beck,

you know I started out with so many different things when I was attempting to learn japanese on my own. I did the rosetta stone which was good for hearing how stuff are pronounced but it didn't have any english words (so you had to rely on the picture to explain what was being said lol) . Then I moved onto that online japanese lesson program. My first instructor recommended minna no nihongo I and basic kanji book (volume 1 and 2). I like both though I've been seriously slacking on kanji. The basic kanji is a good way to intergrate hiragana,katakana and kanji . I think you'd be better off learning all 3 together from the get go.
Basic kanji book gives you kanji (shows you step by step how it is written), then it gives you the hiragana and katakana version of the kanji and the meanings in english. Further they move onto sentence construction utilizing the kanji. Howevever learning vocabulary is good first but then you should dive into learning the basic japanese grammar or else you'd be stuck with just words/nouns without much meaning.

Other people say learn your katakana and hiragana well before diving into kanji. I think that is a valid argument. I find myself relying a lot of the hiragana form of the kanji a lot because kanji scare me but as you move on in the studies the kanji start to make sense. Kanji are particularly useful in figuring out the meaning of the word (i.e there are many japanese words that sound alike and are written with the same hiragana but the only way to figure out which meaning they carry would be by looking at their kanji).

also i recommend this lj group learn_japanese It's another useful tool of many.

Re: Japanese

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yeah, I found and dl'ed both vol's of Rosetta awhile back. While it does help on knowing how certain words are pronounced, it's definitely not the best learning tool that they blow it up to be. So when I first started to play around with it to see what all it offered, I was like "how in the HELL am I supposed to know just what part of the pic they may be talking about." So I did some searching around on Rosetta's site and found the actual English translation setup to the whole curriculum.

Click here and scroll down till you see the pdf files.

I'll still be learning my katakana by the time the 3rd comes around so I'll try to remind you to bring your books again (if you have them handy) so I can check them out and go from there.

Yeah, I'm on that community but half the time the rec's that other ppl give, I always forget to bookmark them and will no doubt take forever to find the ones that I thought sounded helpful.

Re: Japanese

[toriru4ever.livejournal.com]

cool! those pdf files are handy! :D
I have my books with me so just remind me to bring them.

Re: Japanese

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

If you want a print out of those files, let me know and I can print them out here at work since I have just the right printers for big stuff like this.

Re: Japanese

[toriru4ever.livejournal.com]

that would be nice! thanks ^^