I have been in Japanese class for a little more then 3 years now. We learn multiple Kanji every week, and we practice our sentence structures with new points to increase our understanding of the Japanese language. It's hard learning it and writing it but it's especially hard speaking it. I can write out the characters, especially Hiragana very well, as well as everyone else in the class. We been doing it since freshman year. The one thing I see almost everyone having trouble with and including myself, is speaking it. Speaking fluent Japanese is what I aimed for in Japanese in the first place. You can learn all the katakana, hiragana and maybe even all the Kanji, but if you can't speak the language then everything is worthless. I believe everything we learned in the class all leads to speaking it. Speaking the language puts everything you learned thus far together. It really is a lot harder then it looks.
It's like memorizing everything in the class and being able to do the homework every night, but you don't get the real meaning behind it. Thus, it gets you when you take the test. I believe that's why homework percentages are lowering. Tests are more important, and take up more percentage of the entire grade rather in homework. They want us to see the entire picture not just a part of it.
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Japanese what an interseting culture
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