Vloggity vlog and an awesome thing

[eggchan]

So I really have no time to update with anything -- plus nothing interesting has happened to me in the past couple days.. ;; but I realized I forgot to post my vlog here. Although there is something weird going on and I'm trying to figure out if it's a problem with YouTube, or what? The views on all of my videos have just STOPPED. Abruptly. But you know I've been looking around and maybe that's happening for everyone? I dunno ...

Anyway, I wanted to share this as well because it is kind of all different kinds of awesome rolled into one:

And my vloggity vlog:

Those of you who are already following my original twitter account need not add this one. I wanted one that I could have public without sharing personal information so it'll have the same thing as my original twitter...

Comments

[ppiahh.livejournal.com]

kyaa~~ i love the Monster vid. Nothing ever looks bad on them.. not even purple crushed velour XD

hi hi, I added you as a friend here.. Hope you don't mind lol. I like your vlogs and since I also had an LJ I decided, what the hey, I like Arashi too lol

keep it up, your vids are pretty awesome (and so are you for liking arashi lol!)

p.s. just a question.... I've been trying to learn Japanese for the past... week =_=;; lol and you seem to be pretty fluent in it. Did you take formal classes or studied on your own? and did you find it hard? did it take long? sorry for all these question eh.. I didn't know where else to ask

[eggchan.livejournal.com]

haha yeah I hardly even notice the outfits anymore x_x; watched it again and said, "It IS purple crushed velour!" XD;

I don't mind that you add me, don't worry about it :D I'm sorry I can't add back right now though -_-;;

As for your question, I am mostly self taught. I hit a pretty big wall into my third year of studying, and that's when I ended up going to Japan as a study abroad type of thing, which definitely helped a TON, but I already feel like I've lost a lot of that since leaving. So... to answer your question, I'm mostly self taught, but learned in a classroom for a little bit after I got to intermediate level and now I'm back to self learning ^^;

It's very strange to say. At first it wasn't super hard. I was moving along very smoothly, until I hit that wall. Once you get to an intermediate level, there are almost no resources online that you can rely on anymore. That was extremely frustrating and I am facing the same thing a little bit now. BUT there are times when I feel extremely confident in the language, and times when I feel like I can't speak a lick of it. Self-learning a language is an extreme rollercoaster ride because you really have no idea where you are going, whether it's up or down, etc.. but ultimately that is all up to you since you are disciplining yourself to learn it.

Erm.. yeah so I've babbled on long enough here ^^;; I'm hoping I can open up my self-study bookmarks and share them with people because there are a lot of people on my vlog who have expressed interest in learning the language and were asking for help/suggestions. :) Alright I'm leaving now~ haha

Again, thanks for the comment and supporting me and my vlogs!! It really means a lot to me.