Helloooooo, woooorld~

[nekokoban]

You know you're among people you can be silly with when you have an entire conversation consisting of the word "mango."

You ALSO know you're living with someone compatible with you when you have a discussion, the first night you're both moved in, and discover that you both watch only two channels, if/when you watch TV at all -- Cartoon Network, and Food Network. (IRON CHEF. We're gonna tape it and do marathons, since it runs late at night here and we both have 8:30 classes. XD;) And the people in our cluster have set us up with this genuine geekpit in our lounge -- ginormous flatscreen TV (wtf! o_o), XBox, GameCube, PS2 ... we were the most popular cluster during Open Cluster Night, until people found out that they were giving away free Italian Sodas on the 11th floor. XD

My Japanese textbook came with an audio cassette, too. Man, I haven't listened to one of these in YEARS, but -- cassette! ... I don't suppose anyone in Seattle either knows where I can buy a really cheap player, or has one I could borrow? X3 But man, cassette -- I'm honestly surprised. And Bioscientific Terminology may be the class that guts me and leaves me to rot (there's so much memorization, OMG Greek and OMG Latin), but I'm hopeful for now!

... I really desperately want episode 51 of Fullmetal Alchemist. But, on the other hand, I feel better now that the pain is shared.

Comments

[arete.livejournal.com]

Is the textbook Yookoso? If it is, I can send you the mp3s for the Intro plus the first two chapters. Our textbook had either the cassettes or CDs, and as I haven't a player either for several years... CDs it was. Unfortunately, playing them as audio CDs crashed my laptop, so I ripped them to mp3s, and gave the CDs to a fellow classmate.

[nekokoban]

It's actually "Nakama" -- and it seems that, apparently, the cassette isn't necessary ... ? o_o I'm honestly not that sure, so I'm gonna pester my TA when I've got class in an hour. XD

Thanks, though! Appreciate it♥

[chibirisu.livejournal.com]

Our class had the same problem -- nobody owned cassette players and they didn't have CDs for the book (which wasn't that old, the writers -- who went to our university, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say -- were just that out of touch with the state of current technology). So we got the one person in the class who had a tape player together with the person in the class who knew how to digitize cassettes and then everyone got an MP3 CD.

You might ask around if any of your classmates know about digitizing?

[nekokoban]

[nods] If it comes to that, I think I can -- in my section alone, we've got a few CS majors puttering around, I know. On the other hand, I've been told I don't really NEED the casette, which is kind of sad -- because, yanno, CASSETTE NOSTALGIA or something funny like that. XD;

But thanks for the suggestion! Will double-check with TA, first, and then apply my powers of annoyance charm to getting someone to rip them, if necessary. XD

[chibirisu.livejournal.com]

just read an earlier reply... :snerk: Nakama was our series too! So I could help you out if I could find my disk! I don't know if I still have my MP3 disk though... I might've loaned it to the person who borrowed my book for the semester too... Anyway, I'll go hunt some...

[nekokoban]

!!!

Dude, if you COULD find them for me, I'd be eternally grateful. :O The TA says that the old prof never really used 'em, but she also went on to say that since we have a new prof, she might be a stickler for that sort of thing, soooo. If you can, that'd be much appreciated! ♥

[ayabai.livejournal.com]

do you have a language lab? that's where i always went to listen to my japanese tapes to do the homework ;;;;

[nekokoban]

There is one? But I think it's more an online thing. o_o I need to download QuickTime for it, and that program's never agreed with me. >_>

I'll ask that, too. Thanks~

[emmling.livejournal.com]

Language Lab's in the basement of Denny. One side is listening to cassettes and cds and such, and the other is computers.

Nakama

[emmling.livejournal.com]

The class should have all the listening bits online, on the course website. That's how it worked for my two years of Japanese at UW. They should have answer keys up as well, so you can check stuff easily before turning it in. Good luck!

Re: Nakama

[nekokoban]

Oh, really? Heh, that's good to know~ Myra gave me the URL last night, so I'll check it out this weekend, when I get around to starting my homework. XD;

Thanks~ :D