Whew! Japanese.

[icarus]

Thank goodness.

My Japanese instructor let me (and another person) take the test we missed. She was astonished when I told her I was going to reduce my work study schedule - she had clearly assumed I was going to drop the class.

No way, I'm not giving up.

If I do Japanese, I'll be able to make a great case for my intention to minor in Sanskrit at UW. I will have studied two Asian languages already (Tibetan and Japanese) as well as German and French. Plus I have the foundation in Buddhist studies from Nitartha Institute (not to mention over a decade as a Buddhist nun, study at the monastery in India, etc, etc).

Then I would major in English.

You see, when you apply to UW, you need to make a case that the U has something you can't get anywhere else. So tell me, how many Universities offer Sanskrit? My original hope was to major in Tibetan and minor in Sanskrit, but while the Sanskrit remains, the Tibetan program (alas) was cancelled.

She's invited me to attend the early morning class instead, on whatever days I can. Apparently I'm in the "quiet" class, the people who don't participate and speak, while the early am class has a lot of eager vocal participation. I admitted to her that I am not an early riser (wildernessguru howls with laughter at this vast understatement) but hmmm... I think I'll see if I can make it to that class a couple days a week. I'd prefer to really hear and use the language: I learn much better that way. When I learn from reading, I can never get the words out of my mouth.

Besides, a lively class makes all the difference.

I'm a couple assignments behind on my Philosphy homework, but it is a great, and I mean Great class. Vibrant participation, an energized environment, an open-minded approach. I'll get those done this weekend.

I love the tutoring, and I'm sorry to reduce my hours. But in all practicality, my grades need to stay in that upper range, and from a mercenary point of view if I say "I tutored English for three semesters" it doesn't matter much how many hours per week that was.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Does the effect vary with what you're reading, or mostly the script?

I'm looking for that Jack/Daniel story where Daniel (I think it was Daniel) has Synthesasia. Darned if I can figure out where I read it... let me keep looking.

Icarus

[alchemia.livejournal.com]

A lot of people do have it for specific words or letters, but I have it for the script more so, probably because I am a very visual person and don't have internal words/speech like most people. The font or handwriting that a language is in will affect the colour/texture but this is a minor modification. Sanskits always been warm and has a sort of burlap-like feel (which is actually very pleasing to me as I learned to spell by rubbing out letter shapes on burlap so it has a meanign of learning/intellegence/creativity/problem-solving/thinking to me). But depending on who writes it it might be more reddish or more yellowish or it might be very blended colours or have more 'specks' of non-blended colour, but that's all the way its written. its always going to be warm and burlap.

As for what I am reading- well I can't read sanskrit but if I could, it would be like when I read other languages. i would see an image of what I'm reading. If I was reading a dog swimming in a lake, I would see a dog swimming int he lake. But there would be a sort of 'transparency' or 'len' over it that if thsi was sanskit would make the whole image slightly warm like I was wearing tinted glasses, if that makes sense =)