Why 日本語？
My first languages were English and Spanish (I’m only very fluent in English now) and in high school I studied French. The French program at my high school wasn’t the best—we had three different teachers with three different teaching styles over four years—and I didn’t really learn much at all. That was when I decided I was done with romantic languages; I just wanted to try something new. And Japanese really seemed cool and stood out to me because I like the grammar/writing system: it’s so much more logical than English. Also, I’ve liked anime and manga since I was 12, and have always been curious about Japanese culture. So I taught myself hiragana and katakana, and then I took a class over the summer at a local language school. After doing all of that, I decided Japanese was more than just a hobby to me and that, along with theatre, I wanted to study it in university. ✨😄🇯🇵
It's so interesting that you think the Japanese grammar system is more logical than English! Most English speakers find it incredibly frustrating/difficult that Japanese and English have nearly opposite grammar rules. In fact, I have the opposite dilemma as you -- since Japanese is so similar to Korean syntactically, I was thinking of challenging myself to take a language like French next year!
ReplyDeleteI think that your passion for Japanese is really admirable -- self-teaching a language is no easy feat, and I'm always amazed at how flawless your Japanese is in class!!! I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your studies <3
Thank you so much! That’s so nice of you to say. I wish you luck as well! And definitely try French or even Spanish, both are super interesting/great languages!!
Deleteアレクシスさんは日本のまんがで何が一番好きですが？I only watched Black Butler for now and I want to read more~~
ReplyDeleteあ、分かりました、フェアリーテイルがとても好きです！
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