Japanese Class
Posted May 25th, 2008 at 08:36 PM by carl33p
Well, Im two weeks into my Japanese 1 class that im taking this summer. Its a 5credit course condensed into 6weeks, so it moves at a very accelerated pace.
Ive learnt to write and read hiragana and katakana, which are each comparable to our alaphabet in English. We started Kanji a few days ago, AND MAN can it be confusing. Since a symbol can mean multiple syllables, I cant see how one would quickly read through it. But Im sure it'll just take some getting used to. Typing in Jap is quite convenient though; dont have to rake my brain over how the symbols look.
Class is quite fun if you studied adequately the previous night. Its a small class (~20), and the professor is constantly calling on you. Im signed up for JPN 2, for the second half of summer, but Ive heard its slightly harder. Im not sure if I can keep up this amount of studying......
Some of the motivation for taking picking up the langauge is b/c of my excessive hobby of anime, yet I dont have the time to watch it while learning it.
Kind of ironic.
Ive learnt to write and read hiragana and katakana, which are each comparable to our alaphabet in English. We started Kanji a few days ago, AND MAN can it be confusing. Since a symbol can mean multiple syllables, I cant see how one would quickly read through it. But Im sure it'll just take some getting used to. Typing in Jap is quite convenient though; dont have to rake my brain over how the symbols look.
Class is quite fun if you studied adequately the previous night. Its a small class (~20), and the professor is constantly calling on you. Im signed up for JPN 2, for the second half of summer, but Ive heard its slightly harder. Im not sure if I can keep up this amount of studying......
Some of the motivation for taking picking up the langauge is b/c of my excessive hobby of anime, yet I dont have the time to watch it while learning it.
Kind of ironic.Total Comments 1
Comments
| | Woot, finshed the class. Got a week break, then the next class starts. Assigned about 10hours of HW over break, and theres a quiz everyday the first week. o.O |
| Posted June 20th, 2008 at 03:07 PM by carl33p |
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