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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster
Unfortunately I know what you mean. I started a good 6 months or so ago but had to stop for a couple months as college was finishing for the final rush and so forth and just very recently have I had to pick it back up again. I have just this week started a 3 hour a day minimum study regiment with the hopes of learning again now that college has finished. I just need to keep up the willpower.
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I use the studying of Japanese to help keep my mind straight in college when I have studied too much of difficult subject matter
. It may sound counterproductive, but learning a language is pretty soothing for me after hours of computer science and calculus. It's sort of like using different parts of the brain. Complex algorithm making/calculus proofs vs. memorization. It's still keeping my brain active so it helps me unwind without losing the momentum!
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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster
Doesn't it make sense to just learn the dictionary forms and then just to conjugate them depending on what you want them to become.
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Exactly! It's a lot easier to learn the base word and then a set of rules rather than trying to treat and memorize conjugated words as a separate entity. This is how I approached Spanish and Japanese.