VIVA NIHONGO

Been absent for 3 weeks from my last post. A little bit sad cause my last post didn't gain much reader until now. But despite of the absent-ness of me (and lack of reader) I still love to write though. I will not stop writing my blog. Ever! Cause I believe my life will be more and more exciting to be shared later in the future.

For these 2 weeks finally my Japanese Language Study (or I will call it Nihongo for Japanese Language from here) went from exciting into chaotic! Everything from this language is so brand new to me that If I didn't catch up myself even after my Nihongo course, I surely will be lost in translation. I knew that Nihon-Go is difficult but never thought it will be THIS difficult. Nihongo and Bahasa really are two different world without enough language bridging. Horay.

I take my course everyday, from 7 p.m until 9 p.m. For total I only have 52 meetings until finishing all the materies and take off to Japan. Honestly, this scares me. 52 meetings is definitely not enough for preparing you to live in Japan and have convo fluently! Even somehow I know my teacher also think it’s quite impossible for me to catch up to N3 before going to Japan. (Japanese Language Proficiency test are ranked from N5 for the lowest and N1 for the highest level.)  So I decided to take it to the next level: taking 2 weeks materies into 1 week only, study as fast as possible so that I will have several weeks advantages in the end to practice my convo or learn new materies.

Nihongo consist of Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Romaji. Introduced you slightly, This is what Hiragana looks like:

And Katakana.

 Kanji is the word the same like Chinese Hanzi, and Romaji is the latin word like I typed in these blog and all of you used to.

Most of the people asked, when did we use Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji or Romaji? I was told that It is by studying you will understand. Writing the whole sentences in Romaji all the time and you will be considered uneducated in Japanese. Writing the whole sentences in Katakana and Hiragana considered you learn Japanese but really just the basic one (or didn’t have sufficient knowledge about Japanese). Writing it all in Kanji and you’ll be considered as a Chinese. Japanese language, part of them are written in Hira/Kata while some of them are written in Kanji. Romaji is rarely used. So, only by studying and practicing you’ll know when to use 4 of the word form in the right time and place (and sentences).

However, despite of the velocity of my study, it all affects my whole routine now. I spend most of the days study language. Study and study and study somehow I feel like sick of it. I’m glad now I force myself to write and update something in my blog (even I have to force myself WTF or else I’ll be studying again) because as I said before, writing is somewhat became one of my refreshments during stress time. I’m glad now I can write this (and ignoring my Nihongo book stack for a while).

Now I’m struggling to keep it balance between study, blogging, daily devotion or praying time, resting time day by day. For these 2 weeks I found myself really indulged in studying and somehow in several days I get sick of it. My blogging and devotion time is consumed day by day until now. I try to rearrange myself so that I can get it balanced between all of those things. I know that if somewhat I am fed up and bored with Nihongo, I will not have the same enthusiasm anymore to study language and It’s quite dangerous, since in Japan later I have to communicate all the way around in Nihongo. I hope I can balance it well. It’s so hard for me for these 2 weeks. Entering the 3^rd week promise myself I must be better and be careful not to be bored in studying Nihongo.

Will post again as soon as possible! Never knew writing will be THIS MUCH refreshing ­~~~