September 17th, 2012

Why did you decide to study Japanese?
My professor, Sato sensee, asked me this question on the very first day of class. Unprepared, I answered what came first to my mind. "Japanese is pretty big in Thailand after Thai, English and Chinese. And I tried Chinese once when I was very young and it did not turn out well. Besides, I've watched some of Japanese series and I like them a lot so I hope that one day I would be able to watch the whole series without subtitles." My answer was okay cause if I were to answer it again I would probably say the same thing.

We basically have classes everyday Mon-Fri at 9 to 9:50 so we've already had three classes. I am excited about that exotic-sound sentences Sato sensee projects. He has to tell us what they mean every time and I am excited that soon enough I will be able to speak that exotic-sound sentences as well.

Right now, I can introduce myself in Japanese and some greetings.
What I said when I was introducing myself were
ハじめまして   Hajimemashite
ワンサヌワトです Wangsanuwat (my last name (in Japanese Last name=first name weird right?)) de su
どうぞよろしくDoozo yoroshiku
Meaning: How do you do. My name is Wangsanuwat (I wish I had shorter last name.) Nice to meet you.
You can introduce yourself also using these sentences.

Of course there are some difficulties happen in the first three classes. Not only because JPN 101 is indeed the first class in my Princeton career but also the first language class I've ever taken officially besides Thai and English. I am taking my third language (Japanese) in my second language (English) so that should be challenging. I'm still doing fine though.

So... That's it for today. See you later!