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Japanese

For Koreans, Japanese should be much easier than for other people. Lots of similarities abound, but there are many more differences that make this language fun but challenging to learn. I’m personally almost done with learning the hiragana (平仮名 [ひらがな], wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana) entry) and continuing on to katakana.

While I was learning trying to figure out how to pronounce things, I figured out some mnemonics. I’ll share them here, so that just in case someone else wanted to start up this language, it’ll help them a little bit. I’ll also share how much I’m pissed off at how characters are way to similar… and some of the strange quirks of the language (get it straight… why is わたしわ spelled わたしは…)

Maybe it’s time for a language partner. I guess that’ll make my stay on the UIUC campus a little bit more interesting.