I'm getting more and more involved in my Japanese class. It's quite a shock to reacquaint myself with the sheer amount of work it takes to learn something completely new. I'm having trouble with hiragana, the main Japanese phonetic alphabet (they have two, plus a system of pictograms!) and can't for the life of me memorize simple numbers.

On the plus side, I have discovered the single most fun time of day to say in Japanese: 5:00 PM, or gogo go-ji. Go ahead, say it a couple times. Isn't that fun?

And there's a continual motivation: Tokyo is home to a neighborhood called Kanda. Kanda has 160 bookstores. 160! That's a number I can remember. It's ichi... um... ichi something zero. Damn it.

I had to learn an alpha-bet to learn Hebrew, but once I got the basics down, it went faster, so keep up the good work. - Club A-Gogo Goji in SLC

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:05 PM

 

Now Canada needs a neighborhood called Toko. I haven't been to Toronto in many years but in the sixties, it had a bookstore on every corner (and a bank across the street from every bookstore). - Canadian wannabe in the West

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:08 PM

 

Gambatte Kudasai

http://www.accessjapanese.com/game.html

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:46 PM

 

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