LOL! His german sounds strange cuz it's mine. I'm pretty sure he doesn't actually know german... That was just a little piece I wrote in class. I got carried away by my muse, I guess. I've got a new plan for absorbing the "good" german grammar... I will now copy out and repeat to myself twice whatever you correct. Yup, sounds feasible!! It's part of my new get-to-work plan. I've been slacking off majorly lately, funny, since I'm MEANT to be the star child (yes, pressure is a very good friend of mine also).

I guess I know more of what to make of you now. You've got a pretty harsh life, whichever way you describe it, and the lows must really suck. I can sorta see how Gackt's perseverance and depth would help you out of that...

Oh my goodness. Gackt and hollywood??? I feel slightly... ripped off. It seems America is taking everything worth something and producing it into a cheaper, mass produced version of itself. I never ever ever want that to happen to Gackt. Of course, there is no way they can even THINK of touching his music -- but his image and personality... it feels... again, invasive. Hollywood, as I know it, is a breeding ground for the famous druggies and dropouts of society who get sicced by mad fans anyway. Do you see why I am concerned? If I associate all this with Hollywood through minimal exposure to the media -- don't worry, I don't know what Angelina Jolie's latest scandal was, if any -- how will new Gackt fans see him?

~ee~ now I know I'm paranoid. But still.

Ich nicht wollen für Gackt zu ein Marionette die Konsumgesellshaft werde. Er hat zustanden so viel bringen; und ich nicht weiss ob mittelmaßig(es?) "yanks" (sorry, must use) er verstehen kann. Und das ist all. Ich habe keine Hoffnung für die amerikanische Masse. Vielleicht ich bin eingenommen... aber ich glaube das es will schlechte ausmachen.

Not sure at all about that last sentence. UHH, not sure at all about any sentence. Please keep typing to me new sentences in german ^^ it's kinda fun trying to figure out what you're trying to tell me.
I don't think I'll do well at all for the first month in germany. ~ohnoes~ that's normal though.
THAAANKYOU again for doing all this for me. I know it must get seriously tedious. It's amazingly nice of you. if you feel sick of it at any time just don't bother correcting and you can just type to me in german and hope i absorb it that way. (personally, I like languages, but I've never tried correcting someone's work continuously)

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thanks for the !!

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안녕하세요. 이지연입니다.

Hey! Vielen lieben Dank für den Gackt

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I understand you completely... regarding the "becoming a better person"-part, I mean.

...Hey, I'm glad you're doing fine.
Yay for SenzaYume-chan, you sick&sweet weirdo
~Nonetheless...
Although I don't know your friend, but she must be a very caring an nice person. It's an honour for me to be comparised to such a nice friend... it means much to me. Thank you ne ^_^

Sigh... sometimes there's just too much pressure, which leads to negative results. But I am trying hard to prevent those things... you know, in addition to the problems which everyone my age has comes the difference between Asian and European culture.
Plus the language barrier. I have to care for the whole family, too. Sometimes, it's too much for me... and I get all depressed and crybaby-ish.
I absolutely hate that.


Ah~ I've just watched Yoshiki's Symphonic Orchestra Concert... that man is one of the best Japanese music artists I've ever met!!
His German sounds a little bit strange, but it could've been worse. You can still get what he wanted/wants to say... I wonder if this really came from Yoshiki himself...

"Heute übte ich alleine Klavier für zwei Stunden. Ich hatte vergessen wie sich das anfühlt. Sehr nostalgisch... Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, [force/make sb. do sth. = jmdn zwingen ^^] zwang mich meine Mutter, Stunden beim Klavier zu sitzen und ich hasste das. Ich hasste die Noten, die Komponisten und das Klavier. Aber nach eins, zwei, drei Jahren liebte ich all die Musik. Ich höre gerne Klassik, Klavier und Gitarre und übte immer mehr und mehr. Jetzt bin ich hier... Ein berühmter japanischer Musiker in LA.
Ich glaube, dass ich bald nach Japan gehen werde. Ich will mein altes Haus besuchen..."

Would've been 99,9% flawless ^^ but it's pretty good, though.. wow, to be honest, I am stunned.

And as I said before, please feel free to correct my mistakes and help me to improve ^_^ No need to feel bad about it... contrariwise, feel good about it. You are helping me!!
Yup!!

-> BUNRAKU.
Gackt's official english site! Scroll down to the "Gackt is finally off to Hollywood!"-Part [link]
News-site run by fans&Dears @LJ [link]

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Yeah, I think I am doing fine. Crazily okay, in fact. My purpose in life has switched from staying and feeling alive to becoming a better person. I guess this means for now; I'm okay.

When you asked that you reminded me of a friend of mine. She's one of those absolutely open and honest and genuinely happy types, and whenever she sees me and stops to talk she always gives me the most searching looks and asks, "How are you?" For her, it's not just a conversation starter; it IS the conversation. I'm really glad I know people like her. And you. And this other friend. And that one. And that other one. GOSH, let's just be happy for EVERYONE! ~do I sound sickly sweet...?~

And yeah. Songs that I don't get straight away always stay with me for longer because I feel like I've made an effort to know them; and the bond is stronger that way.

RE my german exercises: haven't done them in a while; I might just need to start using the "ge-" prefix. (I'm compeltely clueless about that part of german language)
I DO hope that whatever is keeping you busy isn't having a negative impact on you. There are two kinds of busy- happy work busy and duty work busy. The latter is one of the worst ailments modern society has inflicted upon us.

Your birthday is tomor-- TODAY! That's crazy! Mine is two days from now!!! Woah. I know so many people who have had their birthday THIS WEEK. that's just weird. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! i hope you have cake. And people to eat it with.

Instead of doing actual work I have an old piece I'd like you to check. And read. it's from Yoshiki's perspective (no factual basis whatsoever)- about the whole 'busy'ness.
Heute ich übte mein Klavier für zwei Stunden, allein. Ich hat vergesste wie das fühlen. Sehr nostalgische...Wann ich war sechs Jahre alt, mein Mutter macht mir sitzen für Stunded bei den Klavier, and ich hasste das. Ich hasste die Noten, die Komponisten und der Klavier. Aber nach eins, zwei drei Jahren liebte ich alles die Musik. Ich höre gern zu klassische Klavier und Gitarre, und übten mehr und mehr. Jetzt, ich bin hier... Ein berühmt japanischer Musiker in LA.
Ich galube dass ich will gehe zu Japan bald. Ich will mein alt haus besuchen...

PS ahh i feel so bad.. "Doing something without content's not typically for me, I guess." -- you told me to correct you, so here goes.. typically should be typical. that's it. I'm sure you had an absent moment; your englsih is otherwise perfect.

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Nothing's wrong with your sig, really O.O calm down, calm down!
Actually I think I just liked how it used to be before you added those two lines at the end more ^^

Ah, unglücklicherweise weiß ich nichts von russisch!
But maybe you're right. ^^

"Ich gerade eben die Texte für "White Eyes las hat"
Wee~ yeah you used the words "las (=lesen)" and "hat"(=haben), that was absolutely the right choice... but (!) you mixed up declension, word order&tenses
It should've been: "Ich habe eben den Text von "White Eyes" gelesen[like the english past participle, I think.. +unsure+]

"Sie sind...sehr traurig. Aber die Melodie ist so lebhaft!"
NO mistakes here. Not a single one - woot!!

"Zuerst, dachte ich, dass es... üblich<s> war." Yeah, I don't like German grammar, too so difficult..

"Bevor ich es begriffen hatte" = "Before I got/understood it"

You used the German word for "song", replacing "it" ^^ So it's:

"Bevor ich das Lied begriffen hatte, glaubte ich, dass es schmerzlich ist. Und als ich es noch einmal gehört hatte, dass es sehr glücklich wäre.
Warum..? Ich habe keine Ahnung."

Yeah, I think I know what you mean. No, I know for sure.
Oftentimes I've to listen to songs over and over again, read stories and texts over and over again before I understand what they're saying. But I really like songs/texts like that. You have to use your brain.

We're talking about Gackt's "White eyes", right?
I thought it was painful from the very beginning.. maybe it's because I came to hear that song for the first time when I was watching "Diabolos"? He seemed sad. And melodramatic. It's Gackt, isn't it!

See, it wasn't and it is not that difficult to answer... the problem's just.. uh.. don't know what to talk about. Doing something without content's not typically for me, I guess.
Sorry, though..
And by the way I'm still quite busy. But I thought I should clear this before turning older another year. Which is tomorrow.
Haha.

Btw. what do you think regarding "BUNRAKU"?


And... how are you? Hopefully you're doing fine?

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Ja, ich glaube das wir können schreiben in Deutsch, für Vorbereitung... (pulled this word straight out of a vocab list...) und es macht spaß. Ich hat gelerne (??) deutsch für schon drei Jahre...

Ich wissen vier schon (I'm really beginning to dislike this word...) Sprache, so deutsch ist... er... just another one which i must get my head around? Does that even work in german? No idea. Das Problem ist das meine Lehrerin für die erst zwei Jahre war... strange. And she didn't really teach us all that much in terms of structure, though she was okay. Mit unsere neuer Lehrerin wir mache viel mehr (much more) als bevor... (??) ~feel free to make corrections mercilessly!!!!!~

The point is, we're doing all this major grammar catch-up work for two years' time in the space of one semester.. and after that, it's off to germany. I don't think I'm particularly good; just that I have a lot of experience with languages. (thankyou parents for making me move around the world my entire life and lose all my friends about four times over)

Oh, now I remember that part where he said he loved her!! He went round to her house to talk to her and she wouldn't, or something like that... It really seems like it all worked out for the best, though.

You love cats?? I love hamsters!!!!!!! Too bad because of the quarantine in Australia, there is not a single cute-eyed rodent of the hamster species to be found on the soil of the Commonwealth! And the native animals eat all our cat food (LOL - so cute)(KATZENFUTTER!!!) <-- should be a song, like Fuurinkazan, only... Katzenfutter. I can imagine it would be a big hit with the japanese market.

Gackt has a real thing about speech... I wonder if his fascination with pretty words carries over into english as well... ^^ THANKS for adding me btw. ~i am happy~

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Yeah actually he said he was really in love with her and because of that came to realize some things - I have the impression he only realized he was breaking and hurting people with his selfishness after he almost got himself killed in that accident. He didn't want to break up with her and I bet he couldn't understand why she needed to back then also.
Yeah and but you're right. Ich meine das mit others caring for you although you don't care at all. I'm glad they seem to be still in contact with each other...

YEAH, eiennoyume is quite great, ne? Even I haven't read them all... +smiles+ but it's great they're doing what they're doing!

You are quite good! I've talked to someone from belgium who had been studying German for 8 yrs but couldn't understand more than "Guten Tag, wie geht es dir?" before, so...
"Ich komme nach Deutschland in August" -> the "in" should've been "im", but people would understand you without problems nonetheless x)

"Mit drei Schülern aus meiner Schule zusammen." ^_^
German grammar is just cruel and horrible... even I, who was born and am living here, have problems, sometimes.. even native people do! And really, your German is not bad at all, please stop doubting yourself, nya k!!?
I'm really impressed - how good your German actually is...
Wie lange lernst du schon deutsch?

"Ich habe zwei Katzen und sie sind sehr kuschelig" < many Germans make mistakes like these, too! x3
"Die erste ist schwarz [no comma here x)] und...die zweite ist gescheckt. I guess? ^_^
Ist es okay, wenn ich jetzt deutsch schreibe? Du bist wirklich gut!

More~ more~ more~!! xD btw I love cats

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YES! I know what you mean... Even if Gackt WAS the biggest attention-seeker ever, at least he's something we don't mind giving attention TO, LOL. I'd rather see Gackt on TV all day rather than the fake artists who sell stuff that's not even theirs to sell to a huge audience just for the money. And yes, it hasn't been an easy way to the top for him... Contrary to what some might think.

WOAH! I just opened that link, and this full-on GACKT picture... haha... sorry.. it just caught me off guard. ARE THOSE BLUE CONTACTS? Oohhh, FF-ish. Omagosh. yes it is good. WOaaaaaaaaaah. how come this has SO MANY TRANSLATIONS??? wow.

He didn't particularly strike me as in love with the leukemia girl, as much as... affected by her. As in someone he thought that was just there as temporary replacement for something else, until she screams down the phone at him with all these real and genuine emotions and he realises that humans aren't "just there". She opened his eyes to the world or people taking note of others and to the notion that even if you might not care, others do. As for him loving her then or now a lot, I can't tell... He was breaking up with her/she with him, right...? But she seems as more of a teacher to him than a lover. That's my somewhat lacking impression of the situation.

OKAY! down to work. ~ahhh only ONE mistake in a five-word sentence! I must be getting better! this is how bad I am~ Ich komme nach Deutschland in August... Ja... Mit drei Schuler(n??) auf (von?) meine Schule zusammen.
(??? not even gonna pretend that I know what I'm saying. I wanted to say: i'm coming in august, with three other students from my school. not that hard.. yet i probably managed to stuff it up anyway X___X I am classic at that. I blame the german exchange student for implanting ideas about the use of verbs in german.) BUT i did it without a dictionary. At least my vocab is progressing.. even if my grammar is still at ground zero.
OH well. Let's try some more.
Ich habe zwei Katzen und sie sind ser kuschelig X3 Die erste ist shwarze, und... the second... ist... a tabby. >.< I'll just stop. I'm embarassing myself.

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Wah~ Sorry, so sorry, dA didn't informed me of your reply o_o better late than never anyways.

The girl with leukemia..
Yeah that one story... I really thought about it a lot and sometimes I still do. He must've really loved her, although they were only together for such a short time...
Strange but I was wondering that too, I mean, wondering if that could've been her or rather symbolizing her..
I'm glad I could show you a little more of him, because I think he's really a complicated but truly genius artist... you see, there are many people who think he's just doing certain things in order to gain popularity and money. But even if that was right - so what?
He still has to fight hard and also work hard for it - like everyone. So what? Would it change the fact that he was able to touch the soul and heart of thousands of people with his voice, his precious, his divine voice? I don't think so.

He appears in many ads and also in many magazines and tv shows, doesn't he? Do you know why? He explained it once in an interview. Maybe I should just show you this fansite, it's one of the best around: [link]

They have many translations as well x)

I wish I could understand Japanese a little better... those Kanji are really frightening.. not because they're complicated but rather because there're so many!!
And hey~ almost no mistakes in your German sentence - "Sechs ganze Monate in Deutschland" would have been 100% correct ^__^
Wann kommst du nach Deutschland?
Wanna try out your German knowledge? x3 meow~! (Or rather: nya!!)

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thanks for talking to me too - because of it I've learnt heaps more about Gackt as an artist and an individual, and I now respect him more. ~waiting for the 1st vid to load~ I've not yet watched Moonchild so i shall just store that URL in a safe safe place where I will promptly forget it and rediscover it ten years from now and remember you. Haha.
it doesn't surprise me Gackt watches fanmade vids... It seems he's got a strong connection with his fans and -exactly that- he wants to know who we think he is.
-yes, a WHOLE ~ganze, in german?~ ~warte, i can DO this~ sechs ganze(n?) Monaten in Deutschland... AH, what is it with me and tropics-cold-tropics-cold moves??? Anyway. It wasn't initally a "want" to do german. it is now, but not at the start.
~just seen vid~ hmm, from just this first viewing - did the whole car/girl/smoke scene remind you of that girl with leukemia and the car crash from Jihaku??? The scenes were all from Gackt clips, and I was too busy trying to figure out if it WAS from jihaku to look at what SONG it was... I'll do that later... but, I think it is. And... hm... was the song title meant to be sarcastic/ironic, by any chance? Well, whoever made it - I have a feeling they've read Jihaku. I shall watch it again.
And yah, I;ve also been doing stop-and-start kana study for the last few months. I think I've gotten the gist of hiragana, halfway though katakana... and yeesh don't strat about kanji X__X
I couldn't possibly write whole messages in german like you do in english ~I'm assuming you studied it in germany..~. and no matter about german being harder, i think you've put in a great effort!!! hopefully my lazy typing has not affected your english badly in any way...

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