Monday, January 29, 2007
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Learning Japanese has been a wonderful experience for me since I've been wanting to learn Japanese long time ago. But even though learning a new language is fun, I think sometimes it is frustrating that I would easily forget a hiragana or a vocab. Maybe there is a good method for memorization that I don't know about. Learning how to write hiragana properly has been a bit of trouble for me too because of the strokes, but only then I realize that hiragana is a set of beautiful characters. Maybe the red book can include some exercises that would help us memorizing hiragana. In class exercises have been very helpful and interesting. I really enjoy going to class.
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こんにちは！
I totally understand how you feel. When I learned English, I asked my teacher a very silly question:
Me: "Are there any ways to convert a Japanese word into English?"
Teacher: "What do you mean?"
Me: "For example, ringo (apple in Japaese) is apple, right? So
ri=a, n=pp, go=le or ri=ap, n=pl, go=e?"
Teacher: "Oh, I see. Ringo is apple. You just have to memorize it."
Me: "Oh, that means I need to memorize all words that exist in English"
Teacher: "Yes."
At that moment, I thought it is impossible for me to learn English. But now I live in the United States and writing a dissertation in English!
As for Hiragana, why don't we talk about it in class. I will ask students in class how they memorized hiragana... I might forget to ask, so please remind me... :)
じゃ、また。
はじめまして。にほんごTAのsawaranranです。
You might find it a little difficult to memorize the strokes of hiragana and kanji in the beginning; I'm sure it will get easier for you as you keep practicing, so don't worry too much :-) In the future, you might even have an opportunity to learn Japanese calligraphy.
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