Language Studies

This is pretty weird but it's been a longgg time since I posted. Well, to be honest, I only posted once which is pretty terrible. However, I am glad to say that my Japanese studies did not come to a sudden stop like my blogging did. I ended up taking my first Japanese classes in university about a month after my first blog post. Safe to say, the hours of studying I did and all the things I learned (with great difficulty) was covered in like the first hour of class and I was pretty much in the same boat as everyone else.  I took the first three beginning classes of Japanese. In UCLA, the Japanese courses are labelled J1, J2, J3 for the beginning Japanese classes. Then it moves on to J4, J5, and J6 which are the intermediate courses. They only offer each course specifically once each school year. So I did J1, 2, and 3 my Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters respectively. However, I decided to take a summer intensive which was a 9 week course where J4, 5, and 6 were all combined...

Day One (9/6/17) Hey hey! After realizing how helpful writing in a blog was for my calligraphy journey, I've decided to make a new blog dedicated for my language studies. Right now I'm focusing on Japanese but eventually I definitely want to start posting about other languages like Spanish and Korean. Today is technically my second day of actually studying Japanese but I didn't make a post for yesterday so I'll do a quick summary of that on here. So I reviewed all my hiragana and katakana! It took me about three hours to go over both of these while writing them down. I practiced writing the symbols and made sure I understood both of them! I used Tofugu's mnemonics for both hiragana and katakana. To further make sure I retained the information I also did these "games" called hiragana/katakana drag-n-drop which is like a matching game. It was a great study session and I had a very successful review. My Hiragana and Katakana Practice! Day Two (t...