The three hardest things in life include creating a schedule for employees and accommodating all their needs. The second would be navigating the Shinjuku train station in Tokyo, and the third navigating online classes or at least attempting to figuring out how to buy books and get your classes going.
So how are classes going? Well, to be honest, they are demanding and require a lot of reading and information. These are not the days of doing practice problems like when I was a math major or physics major. I have to admit that I am enjoying it. I have a lot of catching up to do, but that is to be expected considering this is the first week and I am getting used to the way things are done.
The one thing I can’t get over is how fast time is passing. Already day two, a constant grind and a constant happening.
Japanese
Let’s start by building on what I already know.
there are three alphabets. Kanji: borrowed Chinese characters used to express ideas, Hiragana is letters that represent the core of their language so to speak. It’s important to note that all words can be written in this form. The third is Katakana, these parallel that of hiragana and are used to express words borrowed from other languages.
There are roughly 2600 kanji charters you need to know in order to get buy
To be proficient in Japanese you have to pass a test known as JLPT N1-N5
I know how to say this: 私の名前はテリです My name is Terry