Comments on: Momoko’s Musings: Dreaming in Japanese for the First Time /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Sachiko /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-267658 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:15:46 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-267658 I did this twice, and both were before I started immersing, which is really weird. But I listened to Japanese music all the time and watched Japanese-subbed shows a lot, so I guess it just got stuck in my head and my brain recycled it. In one I was talking to a Japanese girl in Japanese. It sounded like Japanese to me, at least, and I knew what I was saying (like, we were actually having a conversation) but I don’t know if I was actually saying words or just making Japanese-like noises. She started to insult me and then threatened me, and I ran away as quickly as possible. That was fun.

Don’t remember the second one much, but there was a lot of Japanese everywhere. I think I was in Tokyo…

]]> By: Rose /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-179562 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:14:49 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-179562 sorry! I put this in the wrong place! I was talking about the Di-…ahem…”Richard” and Jane comics

]]> By: Rose /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-179561 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:13:42 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-179561 Sadly, this still isn’t working — the link seems to be broken, and the archives don’t claim to go back that far 🙁

]]> By: d_u_okada /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-99247 Tue, 24 May 2011 09:30:00 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-99247 どんと来い！
from a fellow trick fanatic and japanese student who just experienced a similar thing.

]]> By: Matt /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-25151 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:15:50 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-25151 I’d love to know how your Japanese has come along since this post was written. The people demand a new Momoko’s Musings! …please. 🙂

]]> By: Harry /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-16601 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:10:57 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-16601 Wow this post was a long time ago! I’m assuming that your completly fluent in Japanese by now! Anyway late late late grats. I hope I dream in Japanese soon:[

]]> By: Whatsifsowhatsit /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-15741 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:36:50 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-15741 Congratulations!

I do think that the key isn’t necessarily listening. You simply dream of whatever keeps you busy. Your mind repeats the things you were doing or thinking about the day before, in a way, while dreaming. So, much preoccupation with Japanese of any sort could cause Japanese to become a part of your dreaming. So, after… what was it, six hours?… of listening to Japanese, it’s not strange that you would dream of it.

It can be very helpful, because REM-sleep (the part of sleep in which you dream) helps solidify memories and cognitive skills in your mind. So you were effectively “studying” it some more while dreaming of it, so to speak!

Just wanted to share that little bit of knowledge 🙂 but anyway, again, congratulations!

]]> By: Savara /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3451 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:11:25 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3451 I dream in English all the time, probably more often than in Dutch. Japanese… ehm well, I did dream about Dutch people who were learning Japanese, and a girl spoke about her favorite singer (being Nana Kitade) and I saw Nana Kitade’s name (北出菜奈) in kanji, while I only knew about 100 kanji or so at that time.

And I tend to dream in “Japanese” when I visit Japan in my dreams, but that “Japanese” is the weirdest mix of English, Dutch and a few random words of Japanese. All Japanese people in my dreams understand it though ^_~ (Dreams are weird.).

]]> By: momoko /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3448 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:55:45 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3448 Ruisu: Yeah, I love At Home Dad too. I’m just Khatzumoto’s wife who’s far behind him in Japanese and trying to catch up. I’m too lazy to be called a co-author — more of an on-and-off contributor.

John: That’s pretty awesome you dreamed in Korean. Multilingual dreams would be wicked!

]]> By: John Biesnecker /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3442 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:34:32 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3442 恭喜恭喜! I remember first doing that in Chinese, and waking up so elated. Now, when I dream of Japanese friends, they tend to speak in Japanese, even though I almost always talk to them in English or Chinese in real life. A few nights ago a waitress in my dream said “kamsamnida” (“thank you” in Korean) which kind of freaked me out, because I know basically zero Korean. I wonder if it just gets easier over time to dream in random tongues.

]]> By: ruisu /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3441 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:46:11 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3441 What a milestone! Congrats =)
I never got into Trick, but I really liked Abe Hiroshi in At Home Dad. Funny guy.

Are you a new co-author on the blog now?

]]> By: momoko /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3440 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:15:03 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3440 Alex: お前のやってることは全部まるっとエブリウェアエブリシングお見通しだ！！

Wan: I hope so…頑張ります！

]]> By: Alex /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3437 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:57:11 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3437 どんと来い！

]]> By: Wan Zafran /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time/#comment-3436 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:34:18 +0000 /momokos-musings-dreaming-in-japanese-for-the-first-time#comment-3436 Congratulations, Momoko! Perhaps this is one of those ‘clicks’ that signify you having reached the next level in the language-learning process. Do your best!

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