Foreign Languages…

This post basically launches off the category known as “Foreign Languages” here at JoshKim.Org. I hope to include things from Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and even… Latin. I really should put those 4 years of high school awesomeness to good use.

For some reason, I really feel like learning a new language has tremendous benefits. Something about the languages of choice originate from global superpowers (Japan… GDP 2nd next to US), to-be superpowers (China) or past superpowers (Latin = Rome. almost all of the known world at that time)… (Korean? I don’t know why I’m learning this, other than I’m Korean myself.)

Maybe there’s more to it than that. I look at Chinese scripts (which Hanja (Korean-ized Chinese)and Kanji (Japan-ified Chinese) come from), and see how much art and history is behind it. Alphabets look silly compared to it.

Obviously, English is like a bazillion times well suited for effective communication (No, I hate you, simplified… but I guess the world’s going to be moving towards it…), but something about the Chinese characters… stir something from within.

Maybe you the reader will take away from these random posts I make on the topic of foreign languages. I’ll basically use these posts as summary of what I’ve been learning. Also, I’ll be posting on the joys and frustrations of learning a new language… from my viewpoint. I guess I could try to be as non-biased as possible, but that’d only be kidding myself.

Well, onward!