Dammit dammit

[dr4b]

Goddamnit, the teacher from the Seattle Language Institute just called me back and we talked for about ten minutes, and she basically said "Well, if you want to, you can come to the Japanese 201 class, but you'll be bored out of your mind. You should probably go look elsewhere or seek private lessons."

Goddamnit. Why is it so hard to continue studying a language once you get out of college?

Maybe I should post on craigslist seeking a conversation partner or put up a note at Uwajimaya or something. But I don't know how well that'll work for me. I like classes.

I don't have much to say about yesterday. I was braindead at work and braindead at home. Oh, I finished cropping my Vegas pictures. Dammit, need to install Photothumb.

Also, it's not bloody raining, goddamnit.

Comments

[mh75.livejournal.com]

I heard someone talking about advanced Japanese lessons somewhere the other day, but i can't remember who it was.

Have you looked to see if there are lessons that you can take through UW? I'm sure they have advanced japanese classes, not sure how taking classes nonmatriculated works, although i took my german that way.

[anukul.livejournal.com]

i remember reading (no links for you, sorry) that there was an international language partner "scene" on Skype. might be something to look into.

[dr4b]

I was actually seriously debating asking one of the guys I correspond with about Japanese baseball, who's in Tokyo, if he'd feel like chatting with me in Japanese on Skype sometime... but I would feel a little weird about it, I think. But if there's actually a real thing set up for people who want to do that, neat -- I'll go look around.

[shoebox-bird.livejournal.com]

You'll have to let me know if the Skype thing works out. I too am looking for conversation partners because my speaking and listening skills are in serious need of improvement.

[combinator.livejournal.com]

How about UW?

[dr4b]

The problem with UW is that their classes are all during the work day. I was really hoping to find something with one or two evening classes per week that I could go to after work.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Well if you ask me, I would say there's only one thing to do if you really want to study a language.... :)

[dr4b]

I would love to come live in Japan. No, really. Thing is, I don't really know how I'd find a job -- and I don't really think I want to do the English-teaching thing. I wonder if any of the baseball teams need more English beat writers...

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Well I started out in a professional sense by translating software manuals from Japanese into English, although this was 1994. And I found that job at the local placement agency by asking for it.

And I figure your Japanese is about where mine was at that time, and your software manual writing skillZ would likely run circles around mine. Why not take a 90-day temporary visitor visa and -- in the vernacular of my old radio testing days -- apply 100 volts and see what smokes? :)

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

eat the brain of a native speaker?