Learning Japanese/Carlos Pueblo
Before my
cruise trip in late October, 2018, I enrolled to a beginner
Japanese
class at a Precinct community center. I have been very
comfortable
with Nagamoto Sensei’s teaching even though I have
missed two
of the classes due to the cruise. I have had one eight
weeks
session more than 10 years before and since than I have
attempted to
a self-study route to tackle with my desire of learning
Japanese.
Sensei comforts me that if I have stayed in Japan for three
months, I
would be able to converse with the locals in Japanese.
I think of
this matter with a conclusion based on my foreign language
learning,
Mandarin Chine as well as English, that what I miss is the
recital
process. I have applied the classical Chinese recital habit in
schools to
English when taken English classes at a younger age. I do
no longer
apply such procedure when I take Japanese and Spanish.
They are a
leisure learning without the examination pressure; therefore,
the progress
is limited. Sensei makes up to start with most basic exchange
of
conversation by making a simple sentence.
Japanese
language is very interesting. I just learn that my son Arthur can
say some
Japanese because he watches Japanese shows and plays Japanese
computer
games. I have to rely on English translation for Japanese songs,
poems, and classical
movies, etc. in order to apprehend their beauty. When
I visit
Japan more than three months actually, I can only get by mostly by
speaking
English and some help from Kanji. It is very unfortunate.
I don’t try
to make an excuse for my slowly progress in learning Japanese.
I can solve
the Kanji issue because I am familiar with this part of Japanese
language. Japanese
has verbs conjugation similar to the European languages
and very complicate
patterns of sentences, i.e. plain, polite, and respectful.
I have to
take it for granted that infinite form, the dictionary form, should be
accepted even
violate the conjugation form in all Latin derivatives. It is also
appear in
written forms. It is amazing.
I shall
watch more Japanese movies, TV shows, and more books in order to
make a break
through. Our class is continue for another session and I am
working on
it.
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