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Learning Japanese as A Lifetime-Interest
And so I passed the highest level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test, N1. What’s next? I decided that I was done with my Japanese grammar and kanji books! I told myself, I am fluent enough in Japanese, so I will talk, read, write, and learn in Japanese! Since I am living in Japan, communicating in…
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Know When to Go to A Language School!
Continuing learning kanji by myself, I found that I didn’t get much progress. It is exactly the same as what my English teacher made me do in Junior High School, i.e. memorizing word lists! You don`t retain your memory of new words, or in my case new Kanji, unless you start to use it in…
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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!…
