HATE JAPANESE

[kodalai]

It's taken me nearly fifteen minutes to decipher and answer a single sentence.

I have twenty-four of these to go.

TWENTY-FUCKIN' FOUR.

It was obviously a mistake to take half an hour out of working to eat and shower. Why, in that time I could have done two more of these.

This is the THIRD of three similarly-sized assignments that are due tomorrow.

I really, really hate Japanese.

Comments

[duffsbrandy.livejournal.com]

And being a fellow Japanese student that just bombed my first exam (on which there was over fifty vocabulary words, fifty phrases, etc...) I completely and utterly sympathize with you.

Luckily, the rest of the class bombed too, so we can all suffer the wrath of Washio Ishii together. I swear, sometimes I think he forgets that we aren't *already* Japanese students. Because...yeah...American students are a lot more slow and stupid, and he needs to realize this.

*goes off to copy her hiragana, crying piteously, just for an excuse to use the word "piteous"...*

- CYT

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wonder if Japanese teachers in general just have higher expectations of their students than most American professors. >_>; Or maybe this will just serve as my semestrial reminder that I shouldn't put off Japanese homework until the last day, even if I *do* allot all day for it.

[thefeifei.livejournal.com]

Wait. Do you mean teachers that are Japanese or teachers that teach Japanese? Because my non-Japanese teacher of Japanese had infamously low expectations.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Japanese teachers teaching Japanese. :) You know, in Japanese that sentence would have not been confusing. There's a plain difference between 'nihonjin no sensei' and 'nihongo no sensei'.

[thefeifei.livejournal.com]

Haha, totally. XP

[devilkitty0.livejournal.com]

My sensei passed you if you tried hard but was still a dofus on the exams. Or I might have passed three years of Japanese because I amused him and fed him pocky and other sweets. I was a lot older then the rest of the students because taking classes is one of the perks of working at the university, which might have been one reason.
The last semester was translating ai no kusabi with him and loaning him some of my anime collection. I miss taking a class with him this semester. :-(
Still working on Ai no Kusabi without him. I really ignored it this summer.

Devilkitty

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

On the up side, I've definitely shown myself as a fairly weak starting student to my sensei. Which means that all I have to do is show improvement over the semester, and I'll probably get lavish praise and good grades. Low expectations, yes, that's the ticket!

em... trying to cheer Kodolai up

[gabycat.livejournal.com]

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

it is a joke article! don't get it wrong! but I thought it was amusing given the project you are working on ^_^
Ganbatte!! you can do it!

Re: em... trying to cheer Kodolai up

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Ha! I've seen that article a bunch of times before. It's still true.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

That's pretty funny. I feel for you.