Studying Japanese (again)

The previous post was made last semester, while I was taking Japanese 3.
This semester I'm taking Japanese 4.
(btw, yep I got my A :))


So for Japanese 4, the grading criteria are:
Continuous Assessment : 70%
Final Examination : 30%

Components for CA:
1. Attendance
So far I have perfect attendance. (But so does (almost) everybody else)

2. Class Participation
This semester, either it's because the teacher thinks I'm doing well, or she's scared of me because I'm getting more aggressive to getting close to her, most of the time in class she didn't really ask me a lot of questions.

3. Dialogue Performance
This semester I think I did not as good as the others. There's always something wrong, like intonation of pronunciation, etc.

4. Quizzes
- 9 lecture quizzes   (31/36)
I think I lost some quizzes hmm.
- 12 vocab quizzes  (93/100)
wait but I lost 1quiz D: and the teacher never gives back the quiz we did during e-learning week, let's say I got 110/120
- 3 kanji quizzes (maybe 40/45)
haven't got one back yet,
- 5 listening quizzes  (24/30)
there's supposed to be 5 quizzes but I only have 3 with me??

Overall, I did worse on the (almost) daily quizzes.

5. Homework
I still don't know how they mark the homework. But usually I just made a little mistake here and there.

6. Mid-term test
40.5/50, at least above average (the average is 35.5)

7. Project work
- About yourself (okay, I guess)
- Individual "Invitation Letter" (sucks)
- Group "Invitation Letter" (SHE NEVER SAW MY GROUP'S LETTER)
- Individual essay (The life in Singapore University) (I think this is quite well)
- Group essay (same, I guess)
- Individual "Thank you letter" (I made a mistake on the format)
- Group "Thank you letter" (I think there's no time to do this. We never did it.)
- Kansoubun draft (okay only, I would even say sub-par)
- Kansoubun final (a bit better, but not that marvelous either)

8. Oral Interview
IT'S ON MONDAAAAYYYY


I have a mixed feeling about my result this sem. There are times that I thought to myself I might not be able to get an A for Japanese 4, but I think I didn't do that bad either. There might be a chance to get an A, let's just cross fingers on Oral test and Final exam.

Do you know 4chan?

Maybe the question should be: do you know 2chan?

2chan is a japanese image board, and 4chan is like the english version for it. Google them if you want to know the website.

What I found interesting about these chan-chan thing is that you can be an anonymous and talk about anything you want without the fear of being traced or judged. I think in a forum like this, people are truly being themselves, ie we can see the true faces of human behind the mask.

Well you should really see the board if you want to see what kind of people are there. In the most active board, most of the guys talk about porn, and in /adv/ (advice) most of people ask for an advice in relationship. Some people are fickle-minded and others do not hesitate to troll them. It's quite interesting, really.

Most of the topics sink very quickly, and I really think nobody gives a damn. I tried to find the topic that I replied to this afternoon, after 6 pages, I gave up. Well it's almost like nobody cares about people's opinion about his reply (maybe except the topic starter).

It's a very interesting internet culture anyway. I know there are some popular incidents like Densha Otoko, and Husky and Medley. You should check that out.