I chose to study Japanese because of my interest in Japan itself. My junior year of highschool I began learning the hiragana and katakana on my own, and senior year i took an independent study course at my school. Of course, after this summer ended, i had forgotten so much! I am finding that my prior independent study course is helping me a lot during these first weeks, and i am really enjoying the course material and assignments. I decided to take a formal course so that i would learn how to correctly write the characters i had already learned, i have already developed some bad handwriting habits!
I am really excited to learn some new words and expressions. Having a human instructor (instead of a virtual one) is making things a lot clearer for me. My independent study course was basically a slow immersion program, so occasionally I would learn how to say something, but would be confused on why that was correct for one situation and not for the other. I am also very excited to learn kanji, as i do not know any kanji yet. I expect this will be the most challenging part for me.
Until next time!
I also love baking regular cakes. Here are some pictures of adorable japanese cakes from the internet! おいしいです！
いちごケエキです！いちごわだいすきです。
... fish... cake?
