Category: Learning Journal
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Learning Kanji on My Own
I wrote about how I started learning Japanese in the last post. Yes, the 3-month-long Japanese orientation. But that was just it. I never really caught up my Japanese learning after that. Even after I got married to a Japanese few years later and going back to Japan again! Moving back to Japan, still I…
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The Start of My Long Japanese Learning Journey
It started on the 4th of July 2004. It started when I touched down Tokyo on that wet hot summer day. That day I came as a foreign student, with only 3 months of language preparation. Not on Japanese, but on English! Why? You would ask. Because I was not going to study in Japanese.…
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How I Learned English
I will not forget that day. I just got into junior high school. The world just started to be a little bit bigger for me. From going to my elementary school just a few blocks from home, my junior high school was like 25 minutes walk! And I was learning English for the first time!…
