Kanji...

Compared to yesterday today was quite dull...but what could top throwing soybeans at people dressed up as red and green Oni.

We have our first Kanji test tomorrow...not looking forward to it. We started learning kanji on the 29th and we are already having a test. It's not just the symbols we need to know but the multiple meanings in hiragana. One of the kanji has four basic uses; student, birthday, to live, and to be born. In total 30 kanji and 51 meanings (12 of the 30 kanji are numerical so I didn't include them into the 'meanings' category).

Don't get me wrong, it is very interesting and makes reading much faster. But seeing the Chinese student write out a kanji in .25 seconds when it takes me 3 minutes to write the same thing...it's a little...hhhmmmm...anyway, I really want to lean this. On average we learn about 6 new Kanji per day, except on test days.

I don't mean to scare anyone away from this program...it really isn't impossible, it just sounds a lot harder than it is.

I'll be upload pictures starting tomorrow. The kanji test is our last test this week, and we just finished chapter 9 today. Usually we have more homework towards the end of a chapter than the beginning. So I'll have a little more free time tomorrow to play around with TypePad.

J'ya mata ashita!!

Comments

[Ben]

Its nice to hear from you, Cody!

I hope you did well on your Kanji test, I'm sure you did well.

~Ben

[Heather]

おはよう　ございます　コヂーさん！ げんきですか？i love being able to type japanese on the computer now! lol. hope your test went alright. we've been starting kanji also, so far its been about 3 kanji every class, so much slower paced. we're doing the numbers and we're up to 9. it sounds complicated with so many different ways to read a kanji, especially the non-numbers. glad you're blog is up. we'll prob end up reading it to everyone on sunday. i've actually been a little sick lately and last night my voice started to go >.< and i love to talk, its so hard to try to save up my voice. LOL. anyways, i miss you and can't wait to read the next post. <3