Japanese lessons on the way to work.

Seeing as I can’t seem to make the time to make it to Japanese lessons, I have taken to learning the basics using Pimsleur’s Japanese I (I have been wondering who Pimsleur is) in my car. I have made it through lessons 1 and 2 and have managed to remember everything so far. I have done lesson 3 once and am currently repeating it. There were some tricky ones in there, I am getting confused between demo, jok and mada. As pleased as I am with my progress so far, I am wondering how this will serve me in real life. The normal pronounciation is much faster than I can say words at the moment. There are also some words which I am having trouble pronoucing, such as the word for “you”. Practice makes perfect I guess.

I am really looking forward to throwing myself into learning another language. Its always been something I have wanted to do, but I have consistently made a half-assed effort. I gave up learning Italian as soon as I could in high school and my Nepali lessons fell to the way-side as soon as I returned to Melbourne. The only thing I can remember is “Where is your mother”? And only because I said it all the time in Kathmandu, getting tired of all the begging children.

Bring on Japanese.