Re: CHAT: General Question

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Herman Miller wrote:
>
> This probably sounds *really* dumb, but have you tried watching subtitled
> anime (in any genre that you can stand--SF, comedy, drama, whatever)?  I
> did for 3 years before trying to systematically learn Japnese (with one
> of those self-study books, in romaji, though I'm working on the kana
> separately), and you know what?  Aside from the fact that if I'm falling
> asleep it *really* sounds rhythmically/pitch-ically like Korean, I
> started being able to pick out verbs (once I learned a few verbs),
> cognates with Korean words, and words that I'd learned from the
> self-study book.  A lot of it *does* go by awfully fast, but since the
> anime club here is way cheap for 4 hours of showings every weekend, it's
> one way to hear lots of native Japanese speakers without spending oodles
> on tapes.
Yes, it does help, when I actually make the time to do it. My latest
version is to put the tape on, sit down with my sketchbook and draw, so
I can't read the subtitles and am *forced* to just listen. I still have
a terrible tendency to fixate on one word I know, translate it, and in
the meantime miss the next ten words spoken.

>
> > Cakewalk with the piano roll. I used to do computer art with Fractal
> > Painter (now Corel Painter), but it's been so long since I stopped
> > regularly drawing that I'm out of practice. I also used to collect bird
> > song recordings.
>
> Neat!  I just got PAinter 6.1.  There are way, way too many tools...I'm
> going to probably be the next 10 years figuring 'em out.  But it's way
> fun.
>
I adore this program! I've been learning Painter since I got Painter 4
bundled with my digitizing tablet. I can hardly claim to know even most
of the tool, but I'm definitely finding ways to do what I want. Much of
the stuff at my Gallery page (accessible through the link below) was
done with Painter. That's what I've been doing lately instead of
conlanging.

Laurie
milo@winternet.com
http://www.winternet.com/~milo
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things; more like, it just enlarges the possible scope."
     -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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