On the mend!

[aide]

My ears are fine today, thank god.  The last thing I need (though it would be totally fucking ironic and fitting) is an infection of any kind.  Which I know I'd get from the mountain of drugs they'd give me if I didn't have one already.  It's migrating to my lungs so I'm getting phelgmy and a totally sexy rasp going on but I can handle that.  Hopefully it will clear on it's own.

It's sunny today! :D  Maybe it will be warm enough to wear my no-so-new-anymore green coat.

I should study for a bit this morning, cram in the handful of kanji which I never get right, which I will write in my LJ now so that I can see this post and remember and writing things out is my usual form of study.  Bear with.

横　オウ　→　横行 化　ばける、ばかす 究　きわめる 曲　まがる、まげる 軽　ケイ　→　経由 研　とぐ 仕　つかえる 写　うつす、うつる 主　ぬし、おも *拾　シュウ、ジュウ、ひろう *集　シュウ *進　シン *習　ならう 重　かさねる、かさなる 暑　ショ 消　ショウ、きえる、けす　→　消防車 昔　セキ、ショク *整　ととのえる、ととのう 相　ソウ、あい　→　相手、手相 待　タイ　→　期待 代　かわる、かえる、よ、しろ 炭　タン　→　石炭

柱　チュウ　→　電柱 追　ツイ　→　追放 定　さだめる、さだまる、さだか 調　ととのう、ととのえる　⇒　整 笛　テキ 都　みやこ 度　たび *投　トウ、なげる 登　トウ 等　トウ、ひとしい 湯　トウ 童　ドウ、わらべ *配　くばる 反　そる、そらす *表　ヒョウ、おもて、あらわす、あらわれる 病　やむ、やまい 面　おも、おもて、つら 由　よし 落　ラク、おとす *練　ねる　→　寝る 和　オ、やわらぐ、やわらける、なごむ、なごやか

43 words out of 200 that I screw up sometimes. :/  But only about 9 that I screw up always.  Chinese is a godsend at times like this.  If I just remember how to read it in Chinese (which, of course, isn't as easy as it used to be) that's more often than not close to the on-reading which will jog my memory.  Like 整理 seiri/zheng li; 鼻 bi/bi (zi); 打算 dasan/da suan.  Take that all you 3rd graders!  I'm gonna kick you asses!  I don't know if I'll be able to do as well as my 92% last time though...  UGhdfa.  I don't even know why some of those readings are listed because they are never used.  At least they haven't come up in any of the practice tests I've taken.  Like the million readings for 和.  Hopefully the real test is easier than the practices, as it was last time.  This time I won't be writing any characters wrong.  I made sure to check the stroke orders.  Someone told me the Chinese and Japanese write some differently but that's crap.  It's the same.  I've just been writing them wrong all these years because my teachers never drilled stroke order into my head.  I just guessed how to write them and guessed pretty well, most of the time.  But I always write the ear radical backwards (as in 都 and 階). 

~Sigh~  I just want this to be over.  Then I'll think about taking 7級 in May but that's going to be way harder than this because I'll have to learn synonyms and antonyms plus all the readings and stuff.  I don't know if I'm ready/willing to do that. 

I'm downloading My So-Called Love even though I hate Barbie Hsu.  I am really feeling the need to immerse myself in some Chinese.  Any drama recommendations?  I haven't seen anything that has caught my eye since Why Why Love. :/

Comments

[oviparous.livejournal.com]

why are so many of them on-yomi?? they TEST YOU ON ON-YOMI?!

how tough. :(

oh, and this?

Someone told me the Chinese and Japanese write some differently but that's crap. It's the same.
i think stroke order is similar but certain kanji are written differently, could it be that they were mistaking you for meaning that? O_O

as for stroke order - always stroke from either left to right, or above to below. you'll never go wrong that way. um, but then again there's the 提 which actually strokes up... XD but it's from left to right so, yes.

man, all the best for this. looks SO difficult :(

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

OH yes, they test on-yomi. Usually in compounds which fucking blows when there's more than 1 reading for 1 character. Yeah the Japanese screwed up some of the kanji when they brought it over. Like 真 and 徳. They're missing a stroke or two or write it a bit different. And they use some simplified ones but some others are traditional. It's all very confusing. But stroke order is by and large the same. Left to right, top to bottom. It's served me well. I just learned it wrong from the beginning. But only a couple things. Which I can't remember now. Oh well.

[iaoiua.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it might be bacterial if it's an ear infection, in which case antibiotics could help. (Antibiotics do not work on viruses, only bacterial infections.)

Have you had a fever?

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

I had a slight one yesterday but I'm pretty much better. Nose is unblocked today. :D

[iaoiua.livejournal.com]

That's good! It's better not to rely on antibiotics in my opinion :)

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

Especially since they like to prescribe me 4 different kinds of medicines each time I go to the doctor (1 antibiotic, 1 painkiller, 1 for stomach and... something else?) and that usually throws my system into shock and I get a YI. NOT COOL DOCTOR MAN. :

[iaoiua.livejournal.com]

Aww yes, antibiotics do cause yeast infections, because not only do they kill the infectious bacteria causing you to feel sick, but they also kill off the bacteria that normally live in your body — in this case, the bacteria that would normally prevent you from having yeast infections. If you haven't mentioned this already to the doctors, then perhaps you should — it's possible that other types of antibiotics will not necessarily lead to yeast infections — honestly, I don't know. I'm not sure why they would prescribe so many types of medication though — perhaps the others are symptomatic treatments. At any case, an antibiotic should be all you need against a bacterial infection like this.