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Dear learners,
This blog is for our First Year Japanese class. The purpose of the blog is to foster communication among classmates and to provide support for each other as learners. We can do so by sharing your experience, tips, insights regarding learning Japanese and by encouraging and helping each other.
Participation in this blog is part of the "participation" in the course.
But you will not be graded for not writing the right answer. In fact, there will probably no right answer (or comments) for all the things we might talk about.
As this blog is open to the world, please be mindful of protection of your own and others' identity and other sensitive information. Consider using an alias (or nickname) instead of UNI or your real name. If you choose to use your real name, use only one name (not both first and last name) and at your own risk.
Also, be considerate to others in class and act like one. I 'm sure you will, but just to be safe.
So here's what we are going to do. Once a week or so, a topic will be posted on this blog.
Then you will leave a comment on the post.
For this week, tell us why you study Japanese.
Leave a brief comment on why you choose to study Japaense this fall by 12:00 pm, Monday 9/25.
Hiroshi (Yes, I'm using a pseudonym.)
posted by Hiroshi @ 11:50 午前
12 comments
12 Comments:
Well, I'm studying Japanese so I can one day read research books and articles in Japanese. I have a background in Chinese and a lot of scholarly work on China is done in Japan.
I am taking japanese this year for several reasons:
Firstly, I am required to take a foreign language because of the core requirement.
Secondly, I feel Japanese is a much more interesting and cooler sounding language than most others.
Thirdly, one of my favorite movies is in japanese.
I'm studying Japanese because I plan to major in something that has to do with International Affairs and Environmental Science and go back and work in Asia someday. Since I already know Chinese, I guess the next language to start with would be Japanese.
Also, like tonkatsu, my grandfather and grandmother both speak Japanese so it would be fun to learn.
I'm studying Japanese because I want to visit Japan one day. I would like to be able to interact with the culture around me, rather than just being all touristy.
I'm studying Japanese becauseee.... I like a lot of aspects of Japanese culture, from the history (Tokugawa/Edo Period<33) to modern pop culture (like FASHION and MUSIC and all that good stuff). Aannnddd I just like learning languages in general. Japanese is on top of my list of, like, 20 languages - all of which I want to someday be fluent in. (I think I just enjoy talking too much.) Plus if I were to ever go into business/marketing/etc. I guess speaking Japanese would help me succeed in that field because Japan seems to dominate anything IT-related (although I don't think I'll be taking that path).
I could see myself living in Japan someday... So it'd be good to be able to communicate, ね?
Oh and I like kanji, even though I doubt I'll ever master the 1900+ standard characters. I want to learn at last one Chinese dialect someday, too... Maybe Japanese will help me with that a little, at least with a few of the ideograms.
...And that's enough of that.
I am studying Japanese because I really want to go study abroad in Japan. Since they are ten years ahead of us, I would benefit in going to Japan and researching no matter what field I dedicate myself to, although I really wanted to become a doctor.
And, it would be kind of nice to know my own ethnic language, since half of my family is Japanese and they can all speak, write, and read in Japanese.
Honestly, Korean was my first priority as I'm half Korean with a Korean step-father. Due to scheduling conflicts, I wasn't able to get past elementary 1. This gave me the opportunity to try Japanese, a language that has interested me for a while (anime is a secret/guilty pleasure of mine). It's exciting to see so many similarities between Korean and Japanese.
I worked in Tokyo for 3 years before coming back to America to go to law school. While there I did Japanese language exchanges, taught myself some, and picked up some from friends, but I never had the time or $ for real classes. So, I know some of weird/basic/casual words and phrases but almost none of the basic grammar & foundations that you need to learn properly.
I decided to take Japanese because I didn't want to waste what I had learned in Japan. Second, my wife is Japanese and I want to be able to communicate with her family in Japanese, as well as English. Third, if we have kids, I want to be able to raise them bilingually. Finally, I really loved living in Japan and would like to practice law there or practice in an area where I could travel there often so my wife and I can frequently visit family and friends.
I am struggling through this Japanese course because, well, I want to learn how to speak Japanese! My mother was born and raised there (which accounts for my personal interest in the language and culture), but she was always very insistent when both my brother and I were growing up that we speak ONLY English around the house ... which is a tragedy, really. I have been to visit Japan several times, but this past summer (after my first year of law school), I worked for a Japanese law firm in Tokyo and was totally blown away by how fun and interesting the experience proved to be. My one recurring thought during the summer was that I wished I'd become excited about learning Japanese, like, eight years ago, so I could've taken classes as an undergraduate. Though juggling an intensive Japanese class like ours with a full law school schedule, journal work, and the fall law firm interview season has pushed me to the brink of exhaustion and physical and mental collapse, I'm eager to absorb as much of the language as I can before returning to work (with any luck) this upcoming summer.
hmm...I frankly never thought about learning Japanese until I had to register for classes. I am a native Chinese speaker and thought it would be fun to learn another languge. I don't need any extra language requirements, since I took 2 years of Chinese, so I'm taking this class just for fun...yes, it's quite alot of work, just for fun...argh.
Well, I would like to finish the special concentration in linguistics, which requires taking a non-Indo-European langauge for two years. I chose Japanese because it is the most important and widely spoken non-tonal langauge of East Asia (I'm tone-deaf), and because Japan's influence on American culture is so great nowadays.
I'm studying Japanese cuz I wanted to learn another foreign langue other than Korean and English, and I was interested more in Japanese than in Chinese. Japanese is really similar to Korean in many ways. Though the writing system is totally different from Korean and thus I have to memorize a lot of Kanzi to be good at Japanese, I'm currently enjoying Japanese very much =)
I like some J-pop starts, like Arashi, and Kimura Takuya of Smap!
(I'm so mad at him!!!!!!!!!)
I'm enjoying a lot of Japanese dramas in Korean subtitles.
hmmm... just all in all, I hope I could be fluent in Japanese when I graduate from columbia. =)
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