Tue 25 Nov 2008
So you want to learn Physics in Japanese?
Posted by issa-sa under Rambles and Half-lies
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Don’t.
Start of exams. Wheee -_-” Today’s Japanese Culture exam was actually rather fun, since I guess I knew it doesn’t really count and our teacher basically gave us the questions a week before. Still, the night before I was cursing having to remember the difference between youkais and yuureis (a step up from last term when we had to play “Name that Random Japanese Prefecture!” and answer true/false questions on Ultraman and Kamen Rider. I kid you not), but today I just scribbled down the answers in my pitiable Japanese without a care for being penalized for having abysmal grammar XD
Tomorrow I face you guessed it Physics, followed by Maths, Chemistry in the coming days, while the all important Japanese components -speech, listening, essay, comprehension, grammar, kanji- come next week. (The stress should really be killing me right now, yet here I am typing this in full denial lalala…) Once again I’m asking myself what the hell I’m doing studying bloody Science-related subjects in a foreign language here. To think I could’ve chosen something in the Arts and have myself a serving of Japanese Politics, Economics and History instead *sarcasm*!
(In all honesty, I do somewhat feel it’s a bit of a pity I’m not studying the history at least of the country I’m in right now. Though it involves more scary kanji, at least I won’t feel so lost the whenever I watch these Japanese quiz shows on TV -_-”)
Not looking forward at all to taking tomorrow’s Physics paper, since it’s one of my least fond subjects and having failed it previous term by one bloody mark. The irony being that when I see a Physics paper in Japanese, I find that I actually understand what the questions are asking of me – but I’m absolutely clueless as to how the @#$% I’m supposed to solve it. It seems my Japanese comprehension levels have actually surpassed my abysmal grasp of Newtons laws and whatnot -_-”
(Kinda reminds me of watching anime nowadays. The shows I’m watching I have no problem at all connecting to. But ask me to blog about them…)
*Ahem* So this was a rather stupid excuse of a “Don’t expect me to post anything for a while” post, with the hidden message to those who think it’s all fun and games for me over here – that it’s not always really (Okay, the message is meant more for myself really ORZ).
And to those studying for the JLPT and finding it difficult… well console yourself with the fact that you don’t really need to know how to write “electromagnetic flux” in kanji. (Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to know… And this is the part where I show off what I’ve learnt by typing the answer here – but I’ve obviously not revised enough ORZ)
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November 25, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
How do you say Time Paradox in Japanese?
November 25, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
i didn’t even get physics when it was taught in english. i credit passing to my seatmate who’d been super nice to let me copy off her homework and tests.
November 25, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
nerd trip: Hmm what level physics are you in? Is Vm supposed to be Magnetic Potential?… we don’t usually bother going over magnetic energy in the States…
2nd year University Electrical Engineering major… hajimemashite!
November 25, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
This is why we shouldn’t taught secret of the universe to the earth populace with the moon language. You skipped the normal and hard difficulties straight to nightmare.
November 25, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
“we don’t usually bother going over magnetic energy in the States…”
And thats why USian so-called “science” can only survive by stealing brainiacs from other countries, but fails at actually raising them. Pitiful, really.
November 25, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
You will never be the same once this is over.
November 26, 2008 @ 12:25 am
Physics, I don’t even like it when taught in English -__-;; BADASS Raw watchers of mecha shows will more likely be engrossed with this.
November 26, 2008 @ 3:19 am
There’s always Plan B…
November 26, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Never was fond of the sciences .. but I took one anyways. Ended up choosing physics over biology and chem cause at least physics is math related <3
but physics in a language other than english scares the crap out of me
and umm good luck!
November 26, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
Physics is one of my current subjects now T.T… It totally gives me a headache just by thinking of the terminologies and formulae X_X
December 3, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
Huh huh. Is issa-sa still alive?
December 9, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
Good Luck, physics isn’t easy. I’m guessing it’s harder in Japanese. Is Japanese your first language or second? If second then of course it will be harder.
February 6, 2009 @ 9:05 am
I studied science at university and loved Physics but not in Japanese, it was hard enough in English,
Take care!