あと１１１日: Book 9 + English

17 August 2008 at 22:36 · Filed under books, progress, study plan

Reaching to 100 days left… *shiver* I’ve received my JLPT form, but I haven’t filled it in. Ah it’s due on 1st September, I shouldn’t postpone sending it too long.

I finally finished book 9 after trying hard on the train every weekdays. I’m quite proud that I actually finished it, though I can’t remember all of the words, some I even still don’t understand since I didn’t want to bother opening dictionary… =_=;; But I don’t want to linger too long on the book. But I did get some of the words. It was helpful, in some way… Anyway I’m glad I’m done with it, except for the final exercise.

I’ve been looking forward to read ハリー・ポッターと不死鳥の騎士団 starting tomorrow. I’ve read some of the first pages few weeks ago. It has some furigana, but not until to the very basic. But I think still quite manageable compared to reading Kyou Kara Maou. Of course reading the English version first helps. Since I forgot the details, I’ll read one chapter in English then back to Japanese. Though I suppose I can also read my long bought stacks of manga which has 100% furigana… All in all, I’m just trying to rich out my vocabs by reading more.

I still haven’t done other past JLPT. I guess I’ll do it now, since I can’t seem to focus on uni works…

[edit] Speaking of progress. I just thought of this recently. There was also time when I was still studying English,… I like to read those teenage novels. Probably when I was around 中2 or so, I still opened dictionary and looked for words I don’t understand and write them on the novel. I don’t think I did that so long, since after that I just read it anyway, whether I know the words or not.

So probably I should do that too now. I should not write words meanings on novels and just try to read them. I started blogging in english and can read normal english novels when I was in high school. But LOTR was still too hard for me, I wonder how it’ll be now… Of course not that I’m that proficient in english…

I remember when mom was studying english, she tried to read english books, but was too concerned with words meanings, so she read too slow and of course progressed slow, compared to her friends who just read on without dictionary. I also read some comments about this on some blogs… It’s true, isn’t it…

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