I'm terrible at this whole blog thing

Many, MANY times now I have said that I want to post more regularly on my blog here about language learning and stuff like that.

Truth is I'm terrible at remembering to get on here and write.

So, I will write on here, but there will be no guarantee on consistency, frequency, length of posts, or anything like that. Because I'm just kind of bad at that.

I guess I can give an update on language learning while I'm here:
Since it's been summer I have had more free time to work on projects. I also seem to have had a lot more projects than I had planned.
My family and I have been remodeling our back porch, my brother has come to visit from out of town, I've had work, I've had art projects and music projects and video projects, and those got pushed into the limelight of my life this summer. Which means that language was pushed out a bit.
The Fall semester is starting again at the end of this month, though, and with the structure of classes comes an easy way to structure my time to fit in everything I want to. I will be in my third semester of German at my University, so I will most certainly have time to work on that. I'd like to find time to review my Japanese as well at some point. I feel like it has been so long since I've reviewed anything and I don't remember a lot of the vocabulary I was working on. Unfortunate.

So, all in all, life happens and we  just get back to doing what we do. I can't guarantee posts, but I'll certainly be here.

Until next time, tschüß, meine freunden!

German and Kpop!

Hallo, meine Freunden! Wie geht's? (hello my friends! how are you?)

A friend of mine and I are practicing language together, and for now I'm working on German. We're sending messages with audio files attached back and forth (one a week each) so that we can practice speaking out languages of study. ^^ Even though she's learning Korean and I'm currently working on German it works out. We have the audio of us speaking, then we have the written text in language, and then we have the translation. They're really short. ^^; It's a lot of fun, and since I'd like to start posting more again (what with the summer and all) I'd like to at least include some of the text here every week. ^^ So, here is week one!

Deutsch Woche 1:
Hallo! Meine AKMU CD ist gestern gekommen!
Es ist sehr gut! Mein Lieblingslied ist 'Melted', aber es ist traurig. Ich mag auch 'Little Star'. Ich weis nicht der name auf Koreanisch. ^^;
So! Was ist dein Lieblingslied? Magst du AKMU? Was ist deine LieblingsKpopgrouppe?

Hello! My AKMU CD came yesterday!
It's really good! My favorite song is 'Melted', but it's sad. I also like 'Little Star'. I don't know the name in Korean.
So! What is your favorite song? Do you like AKMU? What is your favorite Kpop group?
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I know I'm not very good at German yet, and I know I have mistakes there, just bear with me as I get better. As always, if you see a mistake, feel free to let me know! I appreciate it!

So hopefully I'll have these little posts up once a week. ^^ I'm working on a study schedule for 日本語(Japanese) as well, so we'll see how that goes. Anyways, I'll see you again soon!

Das ist alles, tschüss! じゃね！

Life

みんなさん、こんにちは！(minnasan, konnichiwa!) Hallo!

The end of the semester is almost upon us, summer is just around the corner!
I'd like to have more posts this summer again, I really enjoyed the Word of the Day posts last summer, so I may do those again this summer. I also want to do posts in German, not just Japanese.
I feel like up until now, studying and practicing has been more of an obligation than an enjoyment. I think it's important to enjoy what you learn, so I hope to have fun with learning language this summer!

Thank you for reading! Danke für deine Zeit! ありがとうございます!
You'll hear from me soon! ^^
じゃね！

久しぶり！(hisashiburi)

Long time no see! ^^; It's been a really long time since I've posted here, I don't really know what to say... But I wanted to give an update on my language learning.

Last fall and this spring I've been taking German classes at my University. I would have loved to have been able to take Japanese, but my school is smaller and doesn't offer it. German is fine though, I'm part German, and learning the language makes me feel a bit more connected to that part of my heritage. I can read fairly well, I just need to use a dictionary for words I don't understand; and I can understand spoken German for the most part, but I have trouble speaking the words and using correct grammar. If I feel like it, I may post German on here occasionally. (Totally depends on how frequently I post, etc.)

My Japanese studies have fallen to the wayside these past months. I got a small job for the winter and they decided to keep me on after the holiday season, so between that and schoolwork, I find that I'm either too tired or too distracted to work on Japanese. I have noticed that I remember a lot of what I had learned previously though, so probably this coming summer I will be able to review a bit and return to Japanese studies.

I'm also looking into some study abroad options, though I'm not quite sure how that will work out. The way my school schedules classes does not lend itself to much leeway, so time will tell what comes of that.

I just wanted to give a bit of an update since it's been a few months. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope to write again soon! ^^/

Hey there

Long time no see, huh... wow, it's been over a month now. >///<

I'm sorry that I haven't kept up with the Word of the Day posts... I really enjoyed doing them, and it was practical for my studying over the summer break, but now that school has started for the fall (I'm in my Junior year at University now), I don't know how to keep up with the posts every day.

I'm so grateful, though. This past month, even though I haven't had time to post anything, so many people have viewed my blog. I'm really grateful!!! ありがとうございました！Thank you so much!

I would love to start posting again, and really to start studying seriously again! So please be patient as I work out all the big stuff like school and work... I hope I'll be posting again soon!

Once again, thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog! See you soon! じゃね！

Update

ごめんなさい！
I'm really sorry I haven't posted anything for the past few days! I do want to continue Word of the Day, but things have been a little bit crazy for me. I'll be posting again soon!

Word of the Day 31 - たいてい

たいてい (taitei) means "almost."

今はたいてい明日ですね。
(ima wa taitei asita desu ne.)
It's almost tomorrow now.

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Everywhere I look, this word means something different, so If you know better than I do, please let me know! ^^

Thanks for reading! We've made it through 31 days! Wow! すごいね！みんなさん、本当にありがとうございます！

まったね！