gonna learn Japanese
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:23 am
Ok so I am not completely giving up on learning Irish I still have every desire to someday be able to at least get some basic conversations down which I am getting closer to, but German was getting not frustrating because it was hard but annoying because it was well annoying. Well we all talked it over and we came to a couple of conclusions. First yes Irish is basically a dieing language so and while we had every intention of doing our part of passing it on to our kids we chose instead to teach them the basics and let them decide if they want to pursue it further when they are older.
We also realized that nobody was having any fun learning German and we kind of had well reserves about taking German anyways. Well I was talking to my nephew who had been dead set against Irish from the beginning and had enthusiasm for German at first he started getting bored with it well mostly because we all did.
Then my mom made an observation that got us to rethinking our whole reasons for taking on German in the first place. I really wanted to learn Irish and my sister was all for that but her kids were split 50 50 on learning Irish or German. My other sister her husband is German so she was all leaning towards German but said Irish would mean more to her except it was really hard. Anyways not wanting to confuse the kids and trying to keep things simple we re-evaluated why we were learning any language in the first place.
It started out as a trying to pass on some of our ancestry to our kids. The main reason we initially set out to learn Since we are mostly Irish/German decent we were kind of going back and forth on which of the two to learn and teach. I had taken some German in school and was prepared to take more in college now that I finally made it. But it has turned into a big old mess because I wanted to take Irish but as luck would have it there are not that many schools in the US that offer the course that would give me credits my school could transfer. So this meant having to take German for school anyways cuz they offer than here on campus.
Blah blah blah anyways my nephew who does karate asked why don't we do Japanese. At first I was like oh because we are not Japanese kid, but my mom pointed out hey we are not English either but here we are speaking English. Now since we all grew up in America we always took it for granted Americans speak English. But there is nothing wrong with learning another language or culture. Well my sister, the boys mom, got excited and said yeah why don't we do Japanese cuz it would be fun, we can all agree on it and well I already have tons of movies and video games in Japanese plus as it turns out my school does offer the course so we decided we are going to learn Japanese and so far everyone is excited so it should be fun. I want it to be fun cuz Irish was a chore and German was a bore.
So anyone here who speaks Japanese got any advice for a beginner?
By the way this is the reason I have been away for this last day because we were doing some investigating and soul searching.
We also realized that nobody was having any fun learning German and we kind of had well reserves about taking German anyways. Well I was talking to my nephew who had been dead set against Irish from the beginning and had enthusiasm for German at first he started getting bored with it well mostly because we all did.
Then my mom made an observation that got us to rethinking our whole reasons for taking on German in the first place. I really wanted to learn Irish and my sister was all for that but her kids were split 50 50 on learning Irish or German. My other sister her husband is German so she was all leaning towards German but said Irish would mean more to her except it was really hard. Anyways not wanting to confuse the kids and trying to keep things simple we re-evaluated why we were learning any language in the first place.
It started out as a trying to pass on some of our ancestry to our kids. The main reason we initially set out to learn Since we are mostly Irish/German decent we were kind of going back and forth on which of the two to learn and teach. I had taken some German in school and was prepared to take more in college now that I finally made it. But it has turned into a big old mess because I wanted to take Irish but as luck would have it there are not that many schools in the US that offer the course that would give me credits my school could transfer. So this meant having to take German for school anyways cuz they offer than here on campus.
Blah blah blah anyways my nephew who does karate asked why don't we do Japanese. At first I was like oh because we are not Japanese kid, but my mom pointed out hey we are not English either but here we are speaking English. Now since we all grew up in America we always took it for granted Americans speak English. But there is nothing wrong with learning another language or culture. Well my sister, the boys mom, got excited and said yeah why don't we do Japanese cuz it would be fun, we can all agree on it and well I already have tons of movies and video games in Japanese plus as it turns out my school does offer the course so we decided we are going to learn Japanese and so far everyone is excited so it should be fun. I want it to be fun cuz Irish was a chore and German was a bore.
So anyone here who speaks Japanese got any advice for a beginner?
By the way this is the reason I have been away for this last day because we were doing some investigating and soul searching.