- 3/28/2009 -
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Clannad ~After Story~ I think may be my new favorite anime. It's the first so far that even with a mention of the name I actually start to feel emotion for. The first anime with just the name I remember everything that makes the plot unique, what makes it... powerful. It's an anime that although it is a sequel, and it might be better if you watch the original first, you can still appreciate near fully by itself. It's hard for me to put the show to good justice in words. Especially so few. I would be doing it a disservice to attempt to dive into the plot, but I will say that it is powerful, and it is moving. The owner of a long cold and still heart finds that sometimes, there is a beating in his chest while watching, and the feeling is good.
It's going to be interesting, reworking my anime planet account to fit it on my top five. All are great shows I would recommend to anyone.
Of late I have gotten my job back at Home Depot, which will serve a good purpose of putting money back in my bank account. My computer needs upgrading, I would like to move out, and the omnipotent trip to Japan needs planning. In that regard, I realize I should probably put in for a passport, as that by itself I have heard can take six weeks, and is definitely essential to leaving the country. While I'm at it, I've been being pestered to get a FOID card, even though I have no interest in purchasing a gun, for the sole purpose of going shooting every now and again with a friend of mine.
I've also finally found a crack for Rosetta Stone that works, and have been enjoying the first level of that for Japanese. My new favorite color may be green, simply because midori is such a fun word to say. Maybe not. We shall see what the word for orange is soon enough, and blue is pretty cool too... The last lesson I was working on was counting. I'm a bit confused as to how they decide endings for numbers, though. For example, when you say there are two balls, you say "booru ga niko arimasu." But, two bikes is "jitensha ga nidai." Four boys is "otokonoko ga yonin." I get that people are -nin, but some objects are -ko, some are -dai, and some are -satsu, with no apparent way to tell. I've been somewhat lucky in guessing that machines and electronics are usually -dai, but I get the impression that I'm just getting lucky and that there are probably rules to this they won't ever explain and I won't pick up on without an actual teacher. I wish there was a school closer to home that I could go to. I do think it interesting that there is no other punctuation for ending sentences than periods though. It seems like it would be harder to express written feelings that way. Perhaps there are other ways to tell.
Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - Winona [3:33]
It's going to be interesting, reworking my anime planet account to fit it on my top five. All are great shows I would recommend to anyone.
Of late I have gotten my job back at Home Depot, which will serve a good purpose of putting money back in my bank account. My computer needs upgrading, I would like to move out, and the omnipotent trip to Japan needs planning. In that regard, I realize I should probably put in for a passport, as that by itself I have heard can take six weeks, and is definitely essential to leaving the country. While I'm at it, I've been being pestered to get a FOID card, even though I have no interest in purchasing a gun, for the sole purpose of going shooting every now and again with a friend of mine.
I've also finally found a crack for Rosetta Stone that works, and have been enjoying the first level of that for Japanese. My new favorite color may be green, simply because midori is such a fun word to say. Maybe not. We shall see what the word for orange is soon enough, and blue is pretty cool too... The last lesson I was working on was counting. I'm a bit confused as to how they decide endings for numbers, though. For example, when you say there are two balls, you say "booru ga niko arimasu." But, two bikes is "jitensha ga nidai." Four boys is "otokonoko ga yonin." I get that people are -nin, but some objects are -ko, some are -dai, and some are -satsu, with no apparent way to tell. I've been somewhat lucky in guessing that machines and electronics are usually -dai, but I get the impression that I'm just getting lucky and that there are probably rules to this they won't ever explain and I won't pick up on without an actual teacher. I wish there was a school closer to home that I could go to. I do think it interesting that there is no other punctuation for ending sentences than periods though. It seems like it would be harder to express written feelings that way. Perhaps there are other ways to tell.
Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - Winona [3:33]
2 Comments:
I'm surprised a program as renowned as Rosetta Stone wouldn't explain the various counter suffixes for numbers. O_o Maybe they just come in a later lesson? They do have their meanings though, like...
-mai: flat objects, like paper and CDs
-satsu: bound volumes, like books and magazines
-hon: long, thin objects, like pencils and fingers
-soku: things worn on the feet, like socks and shoes
-chaku: clothes worn on the upper body (mainly), like dresses or suits (T-shirts, however, seem to prefer -mai)
-dai: yep, you're right - machines
-ken: buildings
-nin: right again - people
-hiki: animals, particularly small ones
-tou: larger animals (it's written with the kanji for 'head,' so imagine, like, 40 head of cattle)
-wa: birds
-rin: flowers
-hai: cups/bowls/similar containers, like a bowl of soup of a glass of beer
-ko: general, applies to pretty much any other inanimate object (similar to -tsu, as in hitotsu, futatsu, etc.)
There's a ton more, I'm pretty sure, but those came to mind. Crazy, huh?
Holy crap, that's a lot of endings.
I don't know if they'll ever really go through the list and try to explain which endings are used when, the whole idea behind Rosetta Stone is sorta that you figure things out on your own after you see it enough different ways. Somehow I figured out -dai, and all I had seen was bikes, phones and cars. But I think they used -ko for bowls and -mai for plates which confused the hell out of me. Yeah.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9141/komai.jpg
Maybe in the more detailed lessons they'll drive that home.
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