Paradox
Wednesday 30th May
I think it’s possible to be too hard on oneself. I’ve been having major trouble progressing my Japanese and wrote a blog entry bemoaning the fact…
日本語のべんきょうはとてもむずかしいですよ。日本人に話すはしたいです。日本語でもっと書きたいですけど何と書きますか？
少し漢字がわかりますから新聞を読みません。
日本語のラジオをもっと聞くと思います。
This translates to something like:
Studying Japanese is really difficult. I want to have more conversations with Japanese people. I want to write more Japanese, but what do I write about?
I understand few Kanji, so I don’t read newspapers.
I think I will listen to Japanese radio more.
Then it dawned on me… I’m not really doing too bad if I can express all of that in Japanese.
I guess I feel frustration because there are a whole slew of subjects I just don’t have the vocabulary for - but it’ll come. A bit of patience and a bit of graft. It’ll come.
I think you are brave to try.
Lordhutton
30 May 07 at 11:02 am
Studying a foreign language can be really difficult and frustrating at times, but it will get better and better over time. Just keep at it
Dakota
30 May 07 at 12:26 pm
How are you studying Japanese? That’s been a language I’ve been wanting to learn for years.
Jon Angliss
30 May 07 at 2:45 pm
I did one year of evening classes in ‘98, then self-learning until I did 8 weeks of evening classes last year. Coming across classes, particularly in higher levels, is very hard work. I’m not sure I’ll ever find a level 3 class unless I move to a big city.
stu
30 May 07 at 2:49 pm