Chinese : My second foreign language is Chinese. I am learning Chinese from the language partner. It is hard to learn. Are Japanese and Chinese similar? I need time to conclude but it seems to be totally different. We use the character (Japanese calls Kanji) both. Chinese consists of the character but Japanese is the combination the character and Kana. When we Japanese read Chinese, we vaguely can understand what they are trying to say, But problem is we can not pronounce at all. For me, it is difficult to remember the sound, how to make sound by myself. The structure is understandable but it is hard to pronounce. But, I would like to speak Chinese. Let’s learn Chinese. Learning the foreign language is exiting. It takes time though.
University student in the U.S. : Is studying at University in the U.S. hard, compare to Japanese? It is hard to say. The one of indicators is how many hours they spend for study in a day. Compare to Japanese university student, American student study more. Why? I believe that American student has a lot of home work during semester. Japanese students usually are not given home work so much. Why? I assume that the Professor in Japan is extremely busy, they can not give homework and have no time to check his assignments. And also library in the U.S. university is open even in late at night, some library open 24 hours. American student have good envelopment to study. I envy them actually!! haha.
Reading books : I used to read a lot in Japanese. So I would love to read more in English also. I just realized how can I read more. Reading is not race but the capability of reading is basic skill of living life. So I am going to read a book a week for fun, and for study. 2 books a week at least. How can I prove that? Oh, I will review these books on this blog. Let’s do this.