Well, I’m here to fool around only. I took two days leave from blogging. Days haven’t been hectic but I’ve been so busy watching tons of anime (so much that I’ve run out of good ones) that I couldn’t take out time for writing posts. (I know the excuse sucks but can’t help it)

So I’ll talk about an interview I heard just today about language learning. The interview I’m talking about was with Benny Lewis, founder of FluentIn3Months.com brought to me by KoreanCloass101. A person who has learnt over 2 dozen languages, he is a figure to be respected. In the interview he talks about his journey of learning languages in three months, setting realistic goals and talk in target language no matter how wrong you are! Obviously I can’t give away everything (it might become a copyright issue), but it did set me thinking straight.

I mean I knew all the points he said, before too. But my habit, I need to be reminded and motivated again and again for the same thing. So getting some inspiration, I will start from a new angle in my language learning journey.

Apart from that what I learnt today is that even though I’ve been into anime and dramas for 4 years but why I couldn’t learn the languages besides picking up some phrases. And to blame are the subtitles. When I read subtitles in English, I start thinking in English only and don’t give much attention to what they’re actually saying. So I started with raw variety shows like TORE! and now I got a site from where I downloaded raw J-dramas. And now I realize I need to learn a lot (I am talking about my level not the whole language. If I talk about whole language itself, then I should say what I know may not even account for 0.1% of the whole). I may be able to pick up the context after understanding four words in a sentence but I’m far from good.

I was very happy when I used to understand the conversations between Japanese people in Thailand. What I ignored was the fact that they were generally between parents and their 7-10 old children (I got to hear such conversations only, by chance). So to say, I may be a level ahead from all the people in here (my college) trying to learn Japanese now, but I have a long way to go when I would say yes, I can actually converse with people.

Today’s Song – Bravblue from FLOW. It’s second opening to Eureka Seven AO I think –