Get a different Japanese boyfriend everyday for 300 days

 Learning a foreign language is scary so we all come up with crazy language learning strategies, like the one mentioned in the title.

Get a different Japanese boyfriend everyday for 300 days: The idea is that you will have to speak to them in Japanese or that you will hear enough Japanese you will get better at it, and the constant changing of boyfriends will let you get some variety in the language/vocabulary.

 The problem with this strategy? Well there are several, not all of us can get (or want) a Japanese boyfriend let alone 300 of them. It is just the idea behind it this strategy seems like an easy fix to learning Japanese because it is a hard language to learn. Personally I don't think this strategy will work for me.


 I personally am using a focus on your interest strategy, you find what interests you in the area or culture the language is from and you use it to help you in learning the language. For me it is music and fashion I cannot tell you how many words I've learned from watching musicals (in Japanese or other languages) and just the tangent learning episodes it has triggered.


Kanji example

袖　そでー sleeve


This is normally used in referring to Kimono like the tomesode or furisode, but it actually has other uses!


袖の下-bribe
袖乞-beg
袖文-sleeve length
袖時雨 -weeping

The Goals of this blog

The whole reason behind this blog is to help myself keep learning language even though I am graduating this semester and will most likely get a job that has nothing to do with my East Asian Languages and Culture.


 In this blog I will be trying to maintain my language abilities in the following languages

• Japanese; would like to raise myself to a confident speaker and just know at least 1500 kanji.
• Chinese; just brush up on what I've forgotten and see if I can go further that that.
• Hindi; get away from my poetic sentences and be able to maintain actual conversations
• Korean; learn the poor language

So I will be having little section updating the progress of each of these languages and also what daily life would like the throw in between.