Ahh! Another week has passed...and I am overwhelmed as ever. So much to do and so little time to get it all done...Japanese requires so much work that I almost neglect my other classes. Yet, as much as I study, I get really frustrated when it comes to vocab/katakana/dictations, especially on quizzes when I continue to BLANK OUT! I always feel I know it so well the night before but then my brain decides to go into a coma.
But...I have to say Japanese nevertheless intrigues me. i have found that already several Japanese words that we have learned sound similar to Korean words...such as かばん(bag) is "kabang" in Korean, and しんぶん(newspaper) is "shinmun" in Korean...and also としょかん(library) is "dosokwan." So these aspects definitely help me remember vocab and such. I started learning Hiragana in the summer from my friend who's a first year now (only for a day, haha, then I got lazy) and he taught me the character sounds in relation to Korean vowel and consonant sounds, which are a lot closer to the Japanese sounds than the phonetic Americanized version written. But I've found that even those sounds are not exactly how you pronounce them in Japanese. One point that still confuses me is "ふ." I learned it as "hu" but in the book it says "fu" and sometimes it sounds like Sato sensee uses them interchangeably. If anyone can shed light on that, I'd be much appreciated.
So I've decided that knowing Korean helps a lot in learning Japanese, but not thatt much (unfortunately). Kudos to those who've never learned a non-romance language and take this class.
On a separate note...
Btw, sorry エンシソさんand ハマさんabout not being able to join the Japanese study session...
Things I'm dreading: all in one day next week: にほんごのテスト, comm テスト、and stat テスト。Hopefully, good things come in threes??
Tonight, I told myself I'd go to sleep at ごごじゅうじ but clearly that hasn't happened. Thursdays are the worst because I have to work at ごせんごじ。Yet I manage to stay up and write this blog..
I just looked at what I've typed and I really hope I can get to the point where I can say more in Japanese- as of now, the Japanese characters are obviously sparse.
Thanks for reading,
おやすみなさい！
ジェニフアー キム
（how do you put that dot thing in between your first and last name?)
3 件のコメント:
You get up really early! Is it an every-day thing?
BTW, ふ is "hu" not like "fu" to bite slightly your lower lip when pronouncing. Watch the shape of my mouth when you can!
Kim-san!!!
In response to your apology about the study session...all is forgiven. We ended up just doing dictation...late + sleepy = lazy! You MUST join us next time, then we can have a PAAATAAY!
Ok, that's it. Jaa mata.
For the little dot thingy in your name, press "?" key while in Japanese-mode.
かんこくごとにほんご・・・おもしろいですよ。
テストがさんまいありますか。むずかしいですね！ Ｏ＿Ｏ
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