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Re: Organizing Garbage in Japan

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:58:04 -0000

At my house I've only been given an English version for my area, but you can check it out on this post of mine: http://www.goddesscarlie.com/carlies-diary/livi...

The bad thing about my area is that paper and pet bottles are only collected once a month!

Re: Studying Japanese in the Summer

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:08:38 -0000

I studied Japanese at UQ. If you are thinking about studying there when you graduate high school, I would have to say go for it! I did "stream A" which is the one you do if you don't have any experience with Japanese. If you are studying at high school, however, I think you will go through steam B. So I can't really talk about what you might experience there, but overall I think the Japanese program at UQ is good. There are bad points about it, but I think there will be at any "class" type environment. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me! And let us know how your class goes!

Re: Animania 2009

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:00:30 -0000

Ah cool! I'm from Brisbane (but now living in Japan). I'm going to check out the rest of your blog now :)

Re: Check Out Your New eduFire Dashboard

GoddessCarlie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:14:38 -0000

The new dashboard looks very slick. I likey a lot!

Re: Osmosis: The easiest way to learn Japanese

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:41:14 -0000

I heard, like painting, if you learn Japanese upside down you use a different side of your brain and things suddenly seem more logical. This, combined with osmosis, the results would be simply awesome!

Re: Cherry blossom (sakura) and engagement in Tokyo, Japan

GoddessCarlie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:07:33 -0000

such a beautiful ring and a romantic day!! Loved all the photos. Once again congrats on the engagement, you have one lucky girl.

Re: Joining Twitter and Being a Twit

GoddessCarlie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:07:36 -0000

"Second day on Twitter and I have absolutely nothing to say!" - you make it intising to follow you! haha :)

I jumped on the bandwagon around a month or two ago. I got to say it is a good way to keep up to date with the people behind the websites I follow. Unfortunatly I'm too boring to have any exciting news myself! :)

Re: Nihongo on The Net - March 26, 2009

GoddessCarlie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:34:34 -0000

Thanks for the link, I'll have to check out the others!!

Re: Japanese Particles [Cheatsheet]

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:48 -0000

Awesome resource, thanks Koichi :)

Re: The Japanese language is a sea and you need to build a boat before setting out

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:34:56 -0000

Even if you don't know your own language inside out like that, learning a new language will make you realise these things.

Re: The Japanese language is a sea and you need to build a boat before setting out

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:32:59 -0000

With regards to learning polite vs casual speech, I think start of learning polite but don't worry about it so much. Eventually you will have to be exposed to casual speech to create longer sentences within polite speech, so it really doesn't matter. And you will eventually learn what context to use what kind of speech no matter what you learn first.

I would say go with what the tutor, but ask questions, review what you learn in different places, and eventually all the pieces of the puzzle will come together.

Re: The Stocking Tug of Team War!

GoddessCarlie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:15:18 -0000

Looks like you could make it out of pantyhose. would love to introduce it as a party game.

Re: Tokyo CGM Night, March 09

GoddessCarlie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:44:55 -0000

Seems like a cool night, I'm jealous!! :)

Re: Kanji Lessons from a Mystery Drama

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:07:27 -0000

I really enjoyed this post, it was very interesting. :) It must have taken a bit of time to do!

Re: Horror in the Hallway

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:04:22 -0000

Very scary!

Re: Kanji Wall Poster by White Rabbit Press

GoddessCarlie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:29:51 -0000

You should stick it in the toilet so you can kill two birds with one stone! ;)

Re: The first live video class from 30,000 feet?

GoddessCarlie — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:17:20 -0000

Very cool indeed! Long plane flights can now be less boring! :)

Re: JapanSoc Revamped!

GoddessCarlie — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:38:52 -0000

Awesome job Chris :)

Re: Do we really need to learn to write in Japanese?

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:31:44 -0000

Many people don't write anything down in English but I'm not one of those people. I love to hand write, and keep a small journal most nights. I would love to be able to keep my journal in Japanese. So yes, while we may not *need* to know how to write, I want to and is one of my goals in learning Japanese.

It is frustrating when you know how to read something but can't write it, even when it is a *simple* word. I guess it is the same in English when you can't work out how something is spelt. Studying the writing of Kanji through Heisig and the reading of Kanji through Kanji Odyssey has shown to me how the two are somewhat separate but knowing one (i.e. either the reading or the writing of) helps you learn the other more quickly.

Re: I Found out the iPhone has a Password Lock

GoddessCarlie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:20:14 -0000

Is it wrong that I find this very funny?! ;)

Re: What does “Moshi Moshi” Mean?

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:26:17 -0000

I always thought of "moshi moshi" like "is the line connected?" That sort of thing.

I love your cat's eyeroll. She was made for the camera! Can't wait for more awesome cat videos :)

Re: The Site Is Up! › Carlie Kimm

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:55:43 -0000

I'm testing a comment!

Re: Art-School

GoddessCarlie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:41:48 -0000

It does remind me of Nirvana. I like it actually, thanks for making me aware of this band!

Re: How do you like your coffee? Hot, cold or…

GoddessCarlie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:07:56 -0000

Now we should all come up with catchy names like that for our projects!

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:05:25 -0000

Ah Koichi! I didn't know this was your blog until I read the comments here. I really love it, especially because of the pirates, arrh! Great interesting post, I'm going to subscribe to RSS :)