tee hee

[haraamis]

Sitting in the common room at the school - thank god for wireless LAN. I should be doing homework and I will right after I wrote this. Lots of vocabulary to learn...o.O;

Aside from that... ^____________________^

My host family is really nice. They talk to me, they drag me from one place to the other, they feed me delicious Japanese food.....*grin* ... I thought I might lose weight while being here....ah. no. no way in hell..... *snickers*

I seem to be very lucky when it comes to host families...*beams*

However, I am a little tired of hearing the "oh, you speak really well" when I know I'm not... *narrows eyes* and no comments from the peanut gallery. Yes, you know who you are.

This is not English. English is easy. This is not. The struggling for words and expressions is rather frustrating....but that's why I'm here, ne? I know I'm improving, but, god, is it ever sloooooooow......-.-"

And of course, I got the mandatory "do you have a boyfriend"-question.... *snort* and yes, when I answered "no", the immediate reaction was "why not?" *throws up hands in the air in frustration* How the hell should /I/ know??.... *rolls eyes*

Yes, but apart from that I'm a happy, happy girl. *grin*

Still haven't found a place to buy postcards, though....*scratches head*

oh, yeah, and bookshops are evil. very, very evil. *firm nod*

all right. Homework now. *is a good student* XD

Ja ne.

Comments

[herrdersylphen.livejournal.com]

*narf*
I'd say even Suomi is easier than Japanese... because you have the same alphabet.
26 letters plus the 'ä', which is also used in German.
But Japanese... well... come to think of it.
You know, English, Francais, German and Italiano are quite similar languages. They all have the same roots. And some words in the languages are the same in meaning and spelling. You can see connections and may interpret some words.
In Japanese, it is totally different. Some words sound similar to english words, just because the Japanese had no word for that before and adopted it from English, though the spelling is still different due to the different alphabet. AND we spell words using single letters like a, b, d... and the Japanese spell words using syllables like "Shu" or "Kyu" ... plus, those syllables are represented by Kanji. And the meaning of some words becomes totally different when used in other contexts. And they kinda "mutate" when they are connected. "Yuki" is becoming "Buki" when connected to another word, as I said earlier (Like in Chibuki, and it doesn't always mean "Snow", for example "Kabuki" which has absolutely nothing to do with snow).

So you do not have to learn just grammatics and vocabulary like in English, you also have to learn the Kanji and the different meanings and forms of them. For an IT like me, it's like not changing from Delphi to C++, but like changing from binary to a three-digit-based notation.
So don't go telling me Japanese wouldn't be that difficult! I really admire those who are able to study it! ;)

Hyvästi!

[haraamis.livejournal.com]

You know, English, Francais, German and Italiano are quite similar languages.[...]earlier (Like in Chibuki, and it doesn't always mean "Snow", for example "Kabuki" which has absolutely nothing to do with snow).

er.... who are you explaining this to? ^_^"

I personally think, that learning Finnish is just as difficult for indo-germanic language speakers as learning Japanese, as there is no relation to our own languages whatsoever. *shrugs* the alphabet, IMO, is not the biggest problem....

*shrugs* anyway, I was just stating, that for /me/, Japanese is more difficult than English. If someone else thinks it's the other way around, that is fine with me. ^_^"