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I’m excited to feel like I’m learning something again! And my listening skill finally caught up to everything else, now to not let it fall behind again
As for the chapter 7 questions: remember the ことがある grammar point? In one of my answers I used こともある, and iirc I read somewhere that you can do that, it might have been Genki…? Or maybe Tae Kim.
Tried to blind-listen the first text! (before even looking at 読む前に or anything else)
Well… How to put it… A lot of room for improvement for my listening skills first of all it was hard to stay focused for 05:23 minutes, that felt pretty long. And I wouldn’t say that I got the gist of it, more like the “theme” of it and some words and expressions here and there.
Yeah I feel less bad now that I tried to read it!
Already in the first sentence, I have no idea what the part in bold means:
楽しことと辛いことがたくさん詰まった、人生一濃い力か月間は、僕の人生の選択肢と可能性を大きく広げてくれました
Edit: Oops, thanks to the audio I realized it’s 九 and not 力, that helps!
Dang I feel like we need a vocab list for the grammar portion too… I was completely befuddled by the お目にかかる and 以下の通り in the 際 point, I ended up having to look them up on jisho. (In case anyone needs to know: お目にかかる is to meet with someone and 以下の通り is as below/as follows)
Word. I’m back from my trip and ready to get going with this and then ran right into this sentence. I also mixed up the kanji.
The rest of the text wasn’t that bad. I think I got the gist of it during the first reading, but since all the new grammar points are actually completely new to me this time, I think there’s stuff I’ll only fully understand after reading the grammar section.
Just…there’s another meaning for ばかり? How many are there? How am I supposed to keep all of them apart? Will this never end ? Will ばかり become the new よう ?
Does anyone know what the tiny text at the end of Yomimono 1 means?
Oh wow I totally missed it when I read the text. I think it looks like edition - name - title - title of chapter or something, maybe it’s an extract from a real book?
Looked up 星の王子・王女たちの留学物語2 and my theory is confirmed, seems to come from this book
Thanks. I kinda suspected something like this, but was too lazy to google it and the title is so weird it threw me. I was like…what do princes of the stars and queens have to do with all this culture shock stuff?
Definitely felt that these texts are a step up from quartet 1. First reading was hard for me, second reading was a bit easier(and kinda funny? Felt like the writer was throwing a lil shade at some parts). Learning about cultural aspect stuff is pretty interesting though, since I did a ton of listening practice in the month break we had and a lot of the videos I watched were related to it.
Nice that the theme fit! I think the fact that the first text is from a book explains that it’s harder, in any case it’s nice that we are trained on real native material and not just made-for-the-book texts.
I’m curious, can you share some of the videos?