[geeks] Re: um, hi. I'm new.

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:32:34AM -0500, Matt Braun wrote:

>  * Trying to learn Go

I suck at that even more than I do at chess.

>  * Anime (though my collection is rusty)

I just ordered the complete series of trigun and the first tenchi
OVA.  Pretty old stuff, I know, I really like them.  I don't really
manage to keep up to well on what is current and new.  I was happy
that I stumbled across Lain before the anime people I know (who do
absolutely nothing to help keep me supplied) were familiar with it.
If I had more time I'd probably try to do more with ordering straight
from the far east.  Of course, not knowing japanese might be a slight
stumbling block in that plan.  I want to learn.  The structures look
easy enough, but they seem to use an extreme number of idioms.  Kinda
like hebrew in a way I guess.

When I learned hebrew, vocabulary was my biggest problem.  Except for
2 visits to jewish services, I was only reading it though, not
listening or speaking.  Maybe constantly watching anime will help with
the vocabulary.  Anyone care to recommend a good japanese lexicon?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd