Foreign
The one thing that my semi-immersion into Japanese culture has taught me is that they are, truly, foreign to me. This is not a bad thing, but it’s solidifying my theory that in order to understand a language, one must first make an effort to understand the culture that the language belongs to. So I have not really been studying Japanese all that much – in the sense that I haven’t been intentionally learning new vocabulary or kanji. Instead, I’ve been watching Japanese variety shows, etc., and just letting the language… Read More »Foreign