Small Thing Number Fourteen: Put Japanese Everywhere!

My Japanese class is back in full swing and now that it's the second term we are doing a lot of kanji. Symbols to represent words is definitely different than English but it actually isn't quite as difficult as you would think. However, it is pretty confusing. I'm still not entirely sure how everything fits together.

Anyway, immersion style learning is best for learning languages and while you can't exactly do that if you are studying outside of Japan, you can try to immerse yourself a bit. I'm lucky enough that my Japanese teacher teaches in Japanese, and while that means I don't know what she is saying half the time it has helped me learn more. The other thing you can do is just put Japanese writing everywhere. How do you do this exactly? Well, here's what I did.

Back in January my whole college got delayed by a week and a half due to snow so that meant a lot of teachers sent out homework before class even started. My Japanese teacher did this and what she gave us to do was memorize the names of various classroom objects. I'm not exactly a flashcard person so instead of making flashcards I just took some of the billion sticky notes I have and wrote the vocabulary on them and stuck they to the respective objects. Most of these have fallen down and gotten recycled now but a couple are still up.

Mado(まど）: Window

Doa（ドア）：Door

Another thing I did that was more of a fun craft project was make labels for my rice containers. One is just sushi written in hiragana (すし） and the other is the kanji for brown rice (玄米）.

And the last thing I did was change the language on my phone to Japanese. It's really confusing at times but I have learned the kanji for now (今) and today (今日） from receiving text messages, which were actually assigned this week anyway. In general it's a bit frustrating and there is a fair amount of katakana but it's still something I would recommend doing.

Under the time it says it is the fourth month, the tenth day, and that it's a Monday.
4月： fourth month (April)
10日： tenth day
月曜日：Monday

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