Thursday 3 July 2014

675 Kanji in 4 weeks 四週間 漢字を675字




 感 -> 感じ   スペルミス


 じゃ、これから英語で続ける!


Ok basically that explains what I've been up to as of late. Kanji (Japanese characters from Chinese) study. Business hasn't been as busy, so I've been going insane studying Kanji. I live, I breathe and I dream Kanji Kanji Kanji!
I learned maybe 50-100 new ones and brushed up on existing Kanji knowledge, which isn't that impressive in a month, but whereas before I could write maybe 50 of them at best, in the last 4 weeks I learned how to write 675 Kanji, a 3rd of the Japanese alphabet, which takes Japanese elementary school kids about 4.5 years. Not bad, but not nearly done yet. I have another ~1.5 years of elementary school, 3 years of middle school and 3 years of high school study left to complete, so tomorrow I'll get right back to it.

However, before I can do so I will have some real work to do first for the first time in about a month. Reason being that I've found 2 developers am ready to sign contracts very very soon and need to get an office set up and organize various other things. As well as book a short holiday before things get really busy again. I'm thinking of visiting Hiroshima during the peace memorial event(atomic bomb remembrance).

I should probably write more, but honestly just want to get back to Kanji study, so I'll finish up with a quick 1st half of 2014 overview looking at my goals for this year:

 
1) 1.000.000$ Net Worth(basically Language Link worth about 1M$)
Hmmm, because in the last 3 months I have stopped caring about becoming really rich and decided I don't need insane amounts of money, but would rather add value to the world, this goal is now officially stupid as well. Although not impossible. I guess I'd like to complete a successful round of financing for Language Link before the end of the year.

2) Understand Japanese TV
Going pretty well. I understand the gist of the animes I'm currently watching. An anime I watched recently I actually understood about 95% without subtitles, but it was very simple admittedly. Harder animes maybe I understand 50-60%. So still a way to go.

3) Look like a fitness model
I've kind of accomplished this. I suppose I should probably cut another 2% of body fat or thereabouts, but I'd have to diet kind of strictly to get there and it may be hard to maintain. Although I generally hate satisfaction and detest what it does to my motivation, in this case it's not so bad. There's no way I'll stop working out even if I'm very satisfied with the way I look :)



Ok that's it. Gonna sleep, workout, eat, finish up business stuff asap and then back to Kanji study!!!