Today I went with Ayaka to Shibuya (??) where we ate at Friday’s restaurant for dinner.
I, of course, ordered a Philly Cheesesteak and Ayaka had the same. Friday’s restaurant is probably one of the only places in all of Tokyo that one can eat a cheesesteak. It actually tastes pretty good considering that I am on the opposite side of the planet from where the food originated.
Before I left to go to Shibuya, I put the audio files for the FSI German course on my iPod Touch and as I rode the train and then walked home from the station, I finished up the rest of the audio for the first lesson.
The drills for the lesson are particularly repetitive and involve a lot of replacement within a standard sentence structure. Also, there is a lot of emphasis on giving the German translation upon hearing an English phrase.
I did pretty well considering that at times I had to concentrate on other things like stopping at the convenience store on the way back to my apartment to buy soap. I continued to listen and do the drills in my head even as I paid the cashier and said thanks in Japanese (????.
All in all, I was able to get through the drills pretty well but perhaps that is because it is only the first lesson and I have a good grasp of the material from my past German studying.
Another nice thing about the text which is part of this program is that it has a list of all the vocabulary used in the unit at the end. I figured out a way to take this list of vocabulary and import it into Mnemosyne which is the notecard program I use to study and review foreign language vocabulary.
So, I successfully imported the words from the first lesson to make a total of 107 words in my German stack.
I started to do the second unit as well tonight and did perhaps the first third to half of it. It is getting pretty late here so I will finish it up tomorrow night.
Tomorrow is Monday and I want to begin anew my efforts to make money online through various projects so for the next two weeks I am setting a daily goal to finish up some sites each and every day. It will take a bit of effort but I am hoping that the outcome will be worth it.
Also, I am in the process of updating my learnthatlanguagenow.com site. I hired a site builder to update the design and among other things I am going to add a forum for people to talk about language learning. I have also decided that I am going to use a text that I wrote sometime last year to create a new ebook which I will begin selling on the site, as well. I will probably also use this ebook as a way to get people to come to my forum (by sending out an e-mail to my mailing list, now around 2,337 people, and telling them I will give them a free copy if they sign up for my forum and make 2-3 posts or by some other similar kind of incentive).
I also have some other projects going on but I will get around to talking about them later.
For now, it is getting late so I am going to go to sleep and hopefully get some good work done tomorrow.
Good night!