Hi,
Markos, Mr. Bartholomew, and Nate.
Excuse me replying this late, but I was sick.
I have an illness and am sick every day, but these days I was very sick.
Junya wrote :
Understanding the piculiar wording of LSJ and Grammar is still a difficult problem even for the highly advanced learners ?
Markos wrote :
No, I don't think so, since the goal of the advanced leaner would be to no longer need Smyth or LSJ. How often do you use such works to help with your Japanese, or, for that matter, with your English?
Just following the others' translation, I won't have to see LSJ so eagerly.
But if I want to be creative in translating, want to make a translation with some new aspects showing a deeper understanding, I have to check the dictionary very thoroughly.
(The way I study is not like scholars'. My ambition is mainly turned toward translating activity.)
Junya wrote :
You mean you are at a loss explaining the saying of Smyth ?
Then Smyth's saying would have been unclear from the first time, and unclear not to me only.
Understanding the piculiar wording of LSJ and Grammar is still a difficult problem even for the highly advanced learners ?
Nate wrote :
I mean that I've tried to explain Smyth's treatment to the best of my ability, but that perhaps
there's some language barrier between us. Bare in my mind that English is not my native language,
so I may be at fault here and am not explaining things the way I should be had I been one.
In the end, the problem didn't solve in me, but I stop asking here lest I might be taken as a persistent psycotic person.
(I tend to ask persistently, though.)
Nate wrote :
In addition, I'm not an advanced or even an intermediate learner. I have only one year in university under my belt; whatever progress I've made since then is largely because I am more at ease being an autodidact than projecting myself to stress I cannot handle with mentally (financial constraints have also been a small but relevant factor).
Yes, difficult work needs a highly sound (physical and mental) condition.
Doing difficult work every day means you have to keep the sound condition every day, which is very difficult too.
I tend to load myself works that are a little above me, difficult works,
but I don't have a skill to keep my condition good every day.
My health condition often sinks, and each time my study suffers interruption.