Fuwanovel Confessions

[Nashetania]

2 hours ago, TexasDice said:

>Runescape

What is this, 2005?

Spoiler

Unless... we somehow traveled through time

[Abyssal Monkey]

Confession: I keep seeing threads about people having trouble with Japanese.  I'm starting to think that I'm abnormal for memorizing Hiragana/Katakana in like 2 hours.  Is it also abnormal to introduce 20 kanji and 20 vocab everyday?   Please tell me I'm not alone is how easy I find this.

[Arcadeotic]

2 minutes ago, Abyssal Monkey said:

Confession: I keep seeing threads about people having trouble with Japanese.  I'm starting to think that I'm abnormal for memorizing Hiragana/Katakana in like 2 hours.  Is it also abnormal to introduce 20 kanji and 20 vocab everyday?   Please tell me I'm not alone is how easy I find this.

It's quite easu to me too, but that might just be my linguistic talents

[Funyarinpa]

1 hour ago, Abyssal Monkey said:

Confession: I keep seeing threads about people having trouble with Japanese.  I'm starting to think that I'm abnormal for memorizing Hiragana/Katakana in like 2 hours.  Is it also abnormal to introduce 20 kanji and 20 vocab everyday?   Please tell me I'm not alone is how easy I find this.

Didn't you skip two grades in high school or something 

[Eclipsed]

Abyssals' memory/japanese learning skills definitely ain't abysmal huh  

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My dad's finally been making me assist him with them routine oil changes for our cars every weekend over the past month.

First day was a disaster, with me fumbling with very, very basic shit like putting on latex gloves, how to position the jackstand underneath the car, how to actually use the hydraulic jacks, using tools to remove bolts, using that fking oil filter wrench, breaking my back standing funnily to pour 4 quartz of engine oil,

But now today he pretty much made me do all of it myself w/o any instruction on our last car. Ez Pz. I feel accomplished.

[Flutterz]

5 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

me fumbling with very, very basic shit like putting on latex gloves

Bless your heart

[Funyarinpa]

Just now, Flutterz said:

Bless your heart

He's a moege heroine now. 

[Eclipsed]

I swear those gloves did not like me 

[Fred the Barber]

1 hour ago, Abyssal Monkey said:

Confession: I keep seeing threads about people having trouble with Japanese.  I'm starting to think that I'm abnormal for memorizing Hiragana/Katakana in like 2 hours.  Is it also abnormal to introduce 20 kanji and 20 vocab everyday?   Please tell me I'm not alone is how easy I find this.

Most people have neither good learning habits nor good tools for learning. The former is more important and more rare, but the latter matters too. If you're able to sustain progress at that pace over more than a month, then probably you have both.

Building a new habit (e.g., spending one hour studying Japanese daily) is really hard, even if you really, really want the outcome of that habit - it takes a lot of willpower to sustain a rhythm long enough to build a habit. It's generally quoted that it takes 21 days to build a habit. If you spit it even once in those 21 days, odds are you're just going to fall off your habit and give up. And then maybe you'll start a thread talking about how much trouble you're having.

[Abyssal Monkey]

19 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

First day was a disaster, with me fumbling with very, very basic shit like putting on latex gloves

I hate latex gloves, they're just uncomfortable. I want that glove making machine where you dip your hands into liquid rubber and it creates a film around your skin.  I don't know if I saw it in a movie or if it actually exists, but either way, that would be incredible.  Genetics class is such a pain in the ass because of these gloves T_T

 

9 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said:

Most people have neither good learning habits nor good tools for learning. The former is more important and more rare, but the latter matters too. If you're able to sustain progress at that pace over more than a month, then probably you have both.

Building a new habit (e.g., spending one hour studying Japanese daily) is really hard, even if you really, really want the outcome of that habit - it takes a lot of willpower to sustain a rhythm long enough to build a habit. It's generally quoted that it takes 21 days to build a habit. If you spit it even once in those 21 days, odds are you're just going to fall off your habit and give up. And then maybe you'll start a thread talking about how much trouble you're having.

Yeah, but spending 20 minutes with Anki while waiting for classes when I have nothing better to do doesn't seem that difficult.  With the fact that I'm reinforcing the language by doing flashcards and then using it by reading manga(read hentai) at home, I can't really consider this a life hack can I? And to the studying comment, I can only reply: "What's studying?" I've always been one of those bastards who people hate because I just pay attention in class and do the homework without studying and break their beloved curve that they so much depend on to get a passing grade. Actually studying to me is such a foreign concept that I find it interesting when people try to explain to me how they go about doing it.

[Down]

Be reassured, being able to easily remember vocab and kanji you rote learn through flash cards is not, in fact, a superpower bestowed only to a few elites among millions.

I'm not sure since how long you've been studying but really as Fred said the harder is not finding 20 minutes or remembering the damned things, it's building the habit and keeping it for more than a week/a month/two months.

[Eclipsed]

Abyssal too stronk

[Abyssal Monkey]

2 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

Abyssal too stronk

I'm going full on spam today in order to make up for not doing shit while I began this semester of university.

[Nashetania]

Tomorrow is Monday again

[Funyarinpa]

5 minutes ago, Nashetania said:

Tomorrow is Monday again

fuck u

confession: Back to my laziness antics, but I found this: https://www.daad.de/deutschland/en/

Holy shit (probably wouldn't make it)

Well it ain't US, UK or Canada but holy shit it's still tuition-free STEM in English, in Europe holy FUUUUCK

 

[Nashetania]

2 hours ago, Funyarinpa said:

fuck u

All the work... No more time to relax

[Arcadeotic]

34 minutes ago, Nashetania said:

All the work... No more time to relax

Well, my week-long vacation just started so my celebration is just beginning

[Yuuko]

12 minutes ago, Arcadeotic said:

Well, my week-long vacation just started so my celebration is just beginning

...and mine ended. Pls why can't my holiday be now when all the new eroge released

 

[Nashetania]

13 minutes ago, Arcadeotic said:

Well, my week-long vacation just started so my celebration is just beginning

Mine starts next week.

At least I have something to look forward to.

[Flutterz]

Confession: The only time I've ever used the car horn was at the start of my first driver license test when the examiner was telling me to turn on turn/brake lights and the horn to make sure everything worked.

[Nashetania]

6 minutes ago, Flutterz said:

Confession: The only time I've ever used the car horn was at the start of my first driver license test when the examiner was telling me to turn on turn/brake lights and the horn to make sure everything worked.

How did it feel to lose your car horn virginity?

[Flutterz]

Just now, Nashetania said:

How did it feel to lose your car horn virginity?

She was really loud

[arakura]

I'm starting to be able to distinguish words in Korean. Hwaiting! 

I want to put thirty minutes at home a day into speaking and writing Korean, but this semester is really hard. Turns out the thing about studying twelve hours a week for an upper division math class is true, lol. And I actually want to learn it and not just get by. I also want to code a little. Honestly I've never been one for being super busy, but working twenty hours a week, struggling still to make friends, and taking some rough classes might end up frankly changing who I am, in way. Failure isn't an option, and math doesn't come free. I continue to be glad that I chose to learn Korean, however. I'll need to put in some more effort every day though, and that hurts right now. 

Also to be brutally honest, I'm not really talking to anyone online much these days, and that saves me lots of time. I don't really even like most people in particular on fuwa, sadly. I like reading Fred's posts though, even if they make me worry about my own future unduly. I should probably stop coming by... 

I also recently stopped talking to one of my best online friends because the relationship would never be what I wanted it to be. I very much liked talking to the person, but their refusal to initiate any conversations with me is just really too much to overlook. There's a difference between being shy and being a bad friend. And no I'm not talking about you flut, in case you were wondering. So that's sort of a bummer, but I think in the end it's better than what was turning out to be a very one-sided friendship. I guess it had been that way for years and I just overlooked it.  

 

People where I live never really honk. In DC I heard more honking in a day than I probably hear in a year at home.

[Funyarinpa]

My fucking sides. 

So this friend of mine lent his laptop today to a history nut classmate of ours since he had some urgent stuff to take care of during English. 

He just received it back and his history is full of porn searches including HD porn of Ottoman emperors. 

My fucking sides oh god

 

[SilverLi]

8 minutes ago, Funyarinpa said:

My fucking sides. 

So this friend of mine lent his laptop today to a history nut classmate of ours since he had some urgent stuff to take care of during English. 

He just received it back and his history is full of porn searches including HD porn of Ottoman emperors. 

My fucking sides oh god

 

Kids, this is why you use incognito or delete browser history. People never learn...

Edit: If you can't recreate the Ottoman Empire you have to experience it.