Turning Japanese: A Postscript

After a rigorous re-test to improve my japanese scores, I was finally able to make it scoring 101 over 107 katakana characters. But moving ahead, we are braced with yet another challenge - familiarizing the Hiragana whose strokes are more fluid thus more difficult to commit to memory. Nevertheless, I find it lovely to bump into japanese characters surprising myself that I am able to read them. "Ju - ti - fu - ri" I sluggishly read the japanese translation at a local Duty Free shop. Lovely indeed.

Japanese 101

Several sessions into our Japanese Language Class, I was forced to memorize the katakana due to an impending test. It wasn't a breeze. Finding myself suddenly studying after more than 8 years of hiatus was more challenging than expected. Then the exams came - I was writing 107 characters all completely foreign to me til this day. It was delightful; I got a score of 88 but before i can even render "omedetou" to myself, I was told by the sensei I have to get 7 more items right to pass. Whew!