One of the assignments given to us by sensei was to do a skit where we have to make up and memorize our lines. I’m finding this very difficult and am rather annoyed by the whole idea. Okay, “rather annoyed” is something of an understatement. I’m closer to “royally pissed”
I feel as if, if I even come close to mastering Japanese, I’ll be able to learn any other language I want. Japanese is hard. Crazy hard. But I keep encountering ways to look at it that make it easier, and sometimes it feels like you just kind of have
I think one of the most difficult things for a westerner to wrap their minds around is kanji. I don’t mean memorizing the kanji or their readings, but exactly what they are in the first place. We think of them as words, but I don’t really think that’s what they
After all of the posts about Japanese culture I’ve been spewing forth, I thought I’d write one about actually learning Japanese. I finally found a tool that I actually like, and I finally feel like I’m actually learning things. Putting the effort into learning hiragana and katakana has been completely