2014年9月29日星期一
2014年9月23日星期二
Hi, everyone!
To me, Japanese learning has always been on the list.
When I was a high school student in Dalian, China, a city that was colonized by the Japanese from roughly 1905 to 1945, half of my classmates chose Japanese as their first foreign language. Mine was English but for communication, I tried to amuse them by talking about Japanese-origined English words. After graduation, I even tried to teach English to some of these Japanese-majored classmates, and they taught me some Japanese for exchange.
When I was a undergraduate, I started to think about learning Japanese seriously. Thus I tried to remember all hiraganas and katakanas. But that ethusiasium quickly faded facing the difficulty of this foreign alphabet. But as a modern Chinese history student, I kind of have to read Japanese articles and books. So though I have not mastered the grammar, I tried to read the Chinese characters between the lines and guess what the authors were talking about, with the help of a dictionary.
Finally, the day has come when I really have to learn Japanese. This time funded by Princeton Universty, where I am enrolled as a PhD. student in East Asian Studies. Indeed, it is definately to learn a language by doing it than thinking about doing it.
頑張ります。
To me, Japanese learning has always been on the list.
When I was a high school student in Dalian, China, a city that was colonized by the Japanese from roughly 1905 to 1945, half of my classmates chose Japanese as their first foreign language. Mine was English but for communication, I tried to amuse them by talking about Japanese-origined English words. After graduation, I even tried to teach English to some of these Japanese-majored classmates, and they taught me some Japanese for exchange.
When I was a undergraduate, I started to think about learning Japanese seriously. Thus I tried to remember all hiraganas and katakanas. But that ethusiasium quickly faded facing the difficulty of this foreign alphabet. But as a modern Chinese history student, I kind of have to read Japanese articles and books. So though I have not mastered the grammar, I tried to read the Chinese characters between the lines and guess what the authors were talking about, with the help of a dictionary.
Finally, the day has come when I really have to learn Japanese. This time funded by Princeton Universty, where I am enrolled as a PhD. student in East Asian Studies. Indeed, it is definately to learn a language by doing it than thinking about doing it.
頑張ります。
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