I am excited to start learning Japanese for the first time ever this year. I really love learning about other cultures and languages so I am really pumped for the class. I really want to go into diplomacy after college and I know that knowing another language would be extremely helpful. I decided Japanese would be good because it is a language I would not have any other chance to learn. Other languages, especially Romance languages, would probably be easier to come by later on, but Japanese would not be. Japanese is really interesting because it is based on such a completely different writing system than English. It also does not employ the complicated tonal system which Chinese uses, which I like. I also wanted to really challenge myself and I think that Japanese will really do so. I look forward to trying to meet that challenge as it comes. Japanese culture is also really fascinating to me in how it differs from Western culture, and I cannot wait to learn more about it.
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What Japanse culture do you like? (or fascinating to you?)
I am glad that you decide to learn Japanese.
Let's enjoy learning Japanese together!
I think that the traditional arts of Japanese culture are really cool. I also just think that smaller cultural differences, such as using last names as opposed to given ones, are really interesting because they are so new.
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DeleteI see. I hope I can show you some traditional arts.
Yes, maybe many things from Japanese cultre are new for you.
You will be more surprised about differences if you visit Japan in person some day.
Such interests toward Japanese culture will be your motivation to keep learning Japanese!
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ReplyDeleteYou are career goals! Diplomacy sounds like an amazing field. I must confess, I also chose Japanese because it lacks the tones found in many other east asian languages.
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I absolutely agree with the idea of challenging myself with a new language such as Japanese. Since we are are a part of Western civilization having the opportunity to learn romance languages would somehow make itself available to us unlike Japanese. I can't wait for our hard work to pay off so we can pursue our goals!
ReplyDeleteYou are smart to challenge yourself while at Notre Dame. I am also trying to find a new way to expand my horizons. I know that it will be difficult but I'm sure we will make progress as a class!
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ReplyDeleteI think it is a good choice to learn Japanese now. I've studied French before and it is definitely easier to learn, more so than Japanese. Good luck!! :)
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