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January 3, 2012 at 7:22 pm #23493
こんにちは!私の名前はマリナです。
I’m Marina, and like many others, I decided to take advantage of the lovely Tofugu New Year’s sale to refocus on Japanese. My reasons for learning the language are several: I want to be able to consume native Japanese media and entertainment, I plan on living in Japan for at least year at some point in the future, and I find the language fascinatingly different from Romantic languages (I speak French at close-to-fluent levels). The more ‘grounded’ or ‘tangible’ goal I’d like to reach is to be able to read my copy of Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega, including the mini-story and detailed character analyses in the back.
My interest in the language and country has evolved. At a young age it was manifested in my love of Japanese videogame series like Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, and then anime and manga. While I still hold those passions, I have also become much more interested in Japanese traditional and pop culture and, Shintoism, the writing systems of the language, and Japanese history.
I originally took three years of Japanese in highschool, and didn’t walk away with much beyond 250 kanji, a handful of vocab, and the most basic of grammar. The past two and a half years of university have shown occasional success in my quest to self-teach myself the language, dotted amongst many failures and a lot of forgetting. This summer I started using Heisig’s incredible RTK program for Kanji, and I’ve learned an additional 200 kanji thus far to what I knew. I haven’t been consistent daily, but I plan for that to change this semester so I can tackle much more kanji.
Overall, I’m very eager to end my days of being a slacker and get back on the track to winning at Japanese!
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January 3, 2012 at 7:38 pm #23500Hi Marina and welcome!
Woot another person who knows French! J’adore la langue française mais le japonais c’est aussi chouette n’est-ce pas?! (mon spécialisation à l’université était le français, il y a 8 ou 9 ans je pense que je l’étudie). Combien d’années étudies-tu le français?? ;)
Sorry, I’m slightly out of practice in my French grammar :/ Regardless, welcome and best of luck with your studies!! Gros bisous!!
January 3, 2012 at 7:51 pm #23503Haha, don’t worry – grammar is my weakpoint with French! Ma mère et sa famille et québecoise, donc j’ai appris un peu de français de ma mère. I started learning french in school in 7th grade, and I’m now a third-year university student who will be finishing her French minor this semester (just have to pass advanced grammar….. ;-;), donc je pense que cela est huit ans que j’ai vraiment appris la langue.
For me, French is much more about connecting with my roots and being able to speak to my relatives (and it is a very beautiful language, in how lyrical and elegant it can be), but Japanese holds a different type of beauty for me. Japanese is much more…. almost poetic, in its simplicity? But it’s also adorable and cute, and uses structures like counters and particles that aren’t really anywhere in Romantic languages. I should really stop before I go into a huge ramble on language families haha.
Merci beaucoup! Good luck yourself!
January 3, 2012 at 8:10 pm #23507Oh my goodness this is creepy, ma mere et sa famille sont quebecois aussi! Et cela c’est pourquoi j’étudie le français depuis j’avais 12 ans je crois (grade 8). Cela me fait rigoler, c’est commet le français de Québec est différent que celui de la France. Par exemple, bienvenue peut veut dire you’re welcome en Québec mais il veut dire seulement ‘welcome’ en France. si cela fait du sens lol. Not to mention ‘les gros-mots’ sont complètement différents hahaha. Besides, les québécois could care less about grammar anyway eh?! ;P
I completely agree with you. Japanese has a different attraction like you said. Sorry, I read your post and was blown away by how similar your situation is to mine, hope you don’t mind my rambling lol ;)
Please keep in touch, id love to learn your thoughts on languages, especially since linguistics was my minor. Gros bisous! ;)
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