Linguistico J. I. Cousin

Gee, i really felt so excited with my first night of Japanese Classes in a classroom setting.
I’m hoping to get this language along with Spanish, French, Korean and Mandarin all at the University Level (Spanish, French & Japanese are the ones i’m gonna focus for a while). I know my English is also at a higher level, no questions about that. But will my tagalog be left behind? I gotta read a lot of tagalog novels (NOT ROMANTIC POCKETBOOKS! hehehehe)

anyways, Japanese Classes was great, the professor is a native speaker herself. Katou-san looks pretty strict but since she knows how colleges work here in north america and i’m happy to see her do her best in teaching us. Oh yes… Ako lang yung nag-iisang pinoy, the rest were all Chinese-born… i think there were like 1 Jamaican, 1 Canadian, 1 Chinese-Canadian and 2 Koreans and 1 Filipino which is me hehehe.

Katou-san is not very fluent in english, but i think we do need a native speaker rather than someone who’s fluent in english and japanese at the same time, because i don’t want to mix up the context of english to the context in japanese. but i agree there are english fluent teachers that are fluent in japanese who can teach japanese very well. I already have memorized the hiragana and katakana scripts for so long and in this class, i have to start from the very beginning. I think i really needed formal classes to make me motivated myself in studying a language.

How’s my spanish? its still doing fine. i bought a grammar book the last time i went to the bookstore, and i found what i needed. I really was disappointed when my spanish prof didn’t explain further prepositions and i found them all in this Oxford published grammarbook.

anyways, my dream of learning languages is starting to become a reality despite having started 8 yrs ago yet couldn’t still understand a single word. I know at least to pronounce, but the grammar and cultural expressions are the ones i need to brace myself.

oh well, i’ll write more stuff. btw, the image contains the 46 hiragana characters.
またね。

–jic 005011MMV0843H

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