Blog posts from the barbarian (or, Learning Japanese in Canada)
Presentation: The small swamp, Canadian (Québec) Software Engineering student and experimental musician. I'm a native French speaker but I master the English language as both are official languages in Canada. I also speak little Spanish and I'm now studying Japanese on my own.
Why learn Japanese? In America, we all grew up with the Nitendo System, the Family Computer, as well as many other Japanese imports. Through this commercial pop culture, many of us grew accustomed to some aspects of life in Japan. However, we all knew this reflected only a small part of what Japan really is. For me, this complexity of the Rising Sun Empire, hidden in a language I can't even read, always seemed intriguing and mysterious. When I think about the cultu-...wait wait wait, that's going too deep! The real reason? To be honest, one of my friend married a very nice woman from Japan, and I thought it would be nice to get a private teacher while allowing her to think in Japanese with some "Québec barbarians" from times to times.
I started to study Japanese only 3 months ago, and while I sincerely hope to be able to write here in Japanese one day, right now my vocabulary is far too limited to express myself correctly, If and when I do, please feel free to teach, help or correct me when necessary.
Presentation: The small swamp, Canadian (Québec) Software Engineering student and experimental musician. I'm a native French speaker but I master the English language as both are official languages in Canada. I also speak little Spanish and I'm now studying Japanese on my own.
Why learn Japanese? In America, we all grew up with the Nitendo System, the Family Computer, as well as many other Japanese imports. Through this commercial pop culture, many of us grew accustomed to some aspects of life in Japan. However, we all knew this reflected only a small part of what Japan really is. For me, this complexity of the Rising Sun Empire, hidden in a language I can't even read, always seemed intriguing and mysterious. When I think about the cultu-...wait wait wait, that's going too deep! The real reason? To be honest, one of my friend married a very nice woman from Japan, and I thought it would be nice to get a private teacher while allowing her to think in Japanese with some "Québec barbarians" from times to times.
I started to study Japanese only 3 months ago, and while I sincerely hope to be able to write here in Japanese one day, right now my vocabulary is far too limited to express myself correctly, If and when I do, please feel free to teach, help or correct me when necessary.