… and my first post. Everyone says that challenges are best met with a team beside you, so I thought that I should present myself to this eminent community, and take a seat at the Japanese study table.
So, who am I? Originally a Swede, but living in France since 2005, I work in both languages as well as in English, frequently mixing up the three… I’ve also studied German and Russian, sniffed at Latin and Spanish, so I thought that a non Indo-European language would be a fun challenge, especially an Asian one. Since my employer decided to send me to Japan last year, and it looks as if I’ll be going every year (hopefully), I decided I’d try Japanese. And I’m not regretting it, the grammar is so much fun!
I started looking for a way of learning Japanese in May, and tried different internet-based supports, but quickly got tired of them. In August I found Wanikani and have been using it since, almost like a game on my phone. Then I added BunPro and also got Minna no nihongo for Christmas. I’m not studying in an efficient way, but it’s a way that I will be able to stick to - WK every day, and some grammar once in a while. I’m lucky enough to have a Japanese acquaintance, who helps me with my daily Japanese sentence - when I’m actually writing one… I think my theoretical knowledge of Japanese is quickly outpacing any practical use, but I doubt I’ll ever be proficient enough to work in Japanese, so the most important for me is to have fun!
PS I missed one radical, “slide”. There has been so many “chutes” in the reading mnemonics, I mixed them up.
