Monday, September 30, 2019

Why Study Japanese

Hello everyone,

Good Morning!

I am a junior at Columbia College majoring history and East Asian studies. I was born in Shanghai, China. Growing up, I loved to watch Japanese animate and read Japanese books. A part of me always wanted to learn the language. Since I am an East Asian major, I need to take one year of language which I immediately decided to learn Japanese.

I love the class and Nishida Sensei. I found the class very interesting and I already learned a lot. The most challenge part of the class would be converting romaji words into hiragana which I need to use a lot of time to think over before I can understand it. Certainly, I need to practice more and, hopefully, soon I can read hiragana smoothly.

Totoro is my favorite cartoon character. 

Sincerely
Helen Zhang

10 comments:

  1. おはよう!Your Japanese is great! I have never been to China, but I have a Chinese friend from high school. I want to visit China one day. What is your favorite Japanese book?
    にほんごがんばってね!!

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    1. こんばんは。Thank you, and your English is pretty well too. I have never been to Japan, but I am planning on going during summer. I hope we can meet then. And, my favorite Japanese book is No Longer Human

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    2. Thanks for replying! I recommend visiting Kyoto and Tokyo when you visit Japan.

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  2. こんばんは。Thank you, and your English is pretty well too. I have never been to Japan, but I am planning on going during summer. I hope we can meet then. And, my favorite Japanese book is No Longer Human

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  3. こんにちは、ヘレンさん!わたしもひらがなはむずかしいとおもいます。わたしのひらがなはきれいじゃありません。

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    1. いつしょにガンバでいくだいさい!

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  4. おはようHelenさん!なんのまんがよみますか?わたしはまいにちはごごはちじますかよみます。Demon Slayer好きです。じゃ、またね〜 (ーKelsey <3)

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    1. ええ、こなんです。じゃあ、また明日。;)

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  5. Hey Helen, I hope you can increase your reading speed with things like children's stories and other students' blog posts. Luckily there's no shortage of written material in Japanese!

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