Progress
March 11th, 2006
I’ve found myself occasionally asking myself simple questions or repeating sentences to myself in Japanese. In the shower a couple mornings ago, I asked myself “Ima nan-ji desu ka.” Simple yes, but I thought of it in Japanese, and had to translate it back to English, thinking, “Did I really just ask myself what time it was?” I was actually wondering if I was late for work, and it came out in Japanese as opposed to translating from the English to the Japanese. How cool is that?
Of course, “Biiru o kudasai” (Please give me a beer) is part of my regular lexicon now, along with “Doko de o arimasu ka” (Where is/are my ?)_, and “Ima ikimasen ka” _(“Shall we go now?”). It’s one of those wonderful power-imbuing feelings: if I can learn a Class 4 language at nearly 30 years of age, I feel as if there’s nothing I can’t conquer. Damn, I can still evolve. That’s even cooler.
After I master Japanese (hah!), back to Spanish and perhaps some other relatively easy Romance language. Polygot-dom, here I come!
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