Monday, September 17, 2012

Topic #3: I speak Japanese.

     When I was a little girl, I was dreaming that one day I could speak another language. At that time, I thought that to speak another language was a great thing for me. Now, if you ask me to choose a new language to learn, my answer is absolutely Japanese.
     Why it is Japanese, not something else?
     First of all, Japan is a neighbour country of China, and it is closely related to China. Learing Japanese can help me know more about the differences and similarities between the two counties. For example, Japanese wear kimono while Chinese wear chipao in the old days, they looks similar. Who first weared that kind of clothes and how it spreaded to another country? How did another country's people change the style or invent more things about it? These secrets can only be found when I really understand another country's language-Japanese.
     Secondly, Japanese has lots of similar writings with Chinese. When I first found a reading material which was writen in Japanese, I found that I could understand nearly 60% of what the writer want to express. They looked like Chinese traditional, but not Chinese simplified. This really interested me and pushed me to learn more about Japanese.
     Thirdly, I want to help Japanese and Chinese to know more about each other. To tell the trueth, Japan really has lots of beautiful things, not only the environment, but also people's  manners; while, China is obviously a great country with long history and culture. But we really know too little about each other, and maybe for that reason, it makes things go worse.
     In conclusion, I would like to learn Japanese because I can learn deeply things about Japan and help not only Japanese, but also Chinese to learn more about the two countries.

7 comments:

  1. Wow! These are some interesting reasons! I hope you will be able to learn Japanese one of these days!

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  2. Me too. I have to study exciting reasons from you. I think Chinese and Japanese have some similarities about writing.

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  3. Good idea, you can do it. May be they will change their text book. joking. forget it

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  4. You are right,Japanese is really nice language,but it seams to me very hard because it depends on the tune of the letter not on the letter itself,are you agree?

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    1. Wow! A little confused, but I really met someone who cannot pronounce the letter well because of the tune or the letter itself, it is the same as someone who cannot pronounce 'th' in English, too.

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  5. I agree with you salwan, It sounds too hard for us. But it is good language too.

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