Gardening
Well, its been some time since I wrote, so I will post a bit of an update and hopefully I can resume blogging more frequently.
Recently its been very busy at work, finishing up work on PixelJunk Eden. It should be out really soon, I’m excited for people to start playing it.
It’s been a really fun project, though quite busy at the end, making it difficult to find time to study. I am looking forward to the next project, I think it might even be a more fun game!
Learning Japanese over here is still taking a while, and every day is filled with akward social situations when you hit words or grammar you don’t understand. It is hard to know what to do in a conversation when you completely don’t catch a sentence directed at you; if someone is laughing, do you laugh? If they ask you something about it then you just have to akwardly point out you didn’t understand anything. -_-
Still, being in the office and hearing Japanese all day is a good thing, I try to use as little English as possible, but usually for complex technical stuff I still need to use English when speaking with some people. Sometimes it is necessary to discuss these sort of things with people who have no English skills at all and you need to somehow understand what’s going on. Having a pen and paper is always good, but you feel rather stupid when someone has to draw a picture to explain something that can be rather trivial.
I’ve started going through the Heisig kanji book again. I started on it a while ago, but never made much progress. The past week I’ve been comfortably getting through 30-50 kanji a day with it, so hopefully within a month or two I’ll be able to recognize and write the 2000~ Jouyou Kanji. After that I can properly begin to learn to read and learn vocabulary faster.
That’s all for now, I’ll try and post some actual interesting information soon!