Grammar!

At 16 and 17 I was awesome at French and Spanish grammar. I studied Japanese at university and fell in love with kanji. Many thought I was deranged. I once spent 2 hours arranging 1945 kanji cards for a friend to come up and pick a handful up and say "what are these?"

I went berserk.

But at 21 and in the final year of university I was suffering with Japanese grammar. I got 0 on a translation exam. I rallied and thought like a rat in a corner and eventually got high marks overall.

I used a specific set of instructions to understand Japanese grammar and will be referring to them in the next few posts.

Kanji Gold Completed!

I completed Kanji Gold and I am very happy - nobody in history has ever clicked on all these kanji correctly, I am the first one.

I realise it doesn't have much practical application in understanding Japanese but it is a very personal achievement.  It was very stressful, I got angry, I never thought I'd do it before the new year...

Interestingly enough my perspectives on stuff have changed massively as of late - I used to think if I achieved things people would treat me with respect.

This changed massively when I was on a train ride to where I used to be in care - one of the people who used to 'work' there (I write 'work' because I don't think bullying vulnerable children is work) was looking at me like I was dirt. I wanted to stab him to pieces, but he taught me a very valuable lesson - no matter what I achieve certain people will never respect me.

More importantly it doesn't matter if these people don't respect me.