the book arrived!
Aug. 19th, 2013 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mereilinAnd... I need to look at it when I have a lot more time to devote to studying than I have today.
We spent the afternoon with my mother-in-law yesterday and she was pleased and surprised that I'm learning to read Japanese. She confessed that of the 6000 or so kanji she knew when she left Japan (in the 1940s) she can remember only a handful and often has trouble reading the letters her old classmates send her.
She did recognize the ones I've learned (perhaps reinforcing their basicness). I suppose I should pick her brain a bit while I still can. We're fortunate that she's still so lucid and independent at 90, and I know she'd like to see more of the kids.
On the other hand, she likes English so much better than Japanese. She's been away from it long enough to be objective about how complex all the levels of politeness are, and how ridiculously difficult it is to write and read with kanji.
We spent the afternoon with my mother-in-law yesterday and she was pleased and surprised that I'm learning to read Japanese. She confessed that of the 6000 or so kanji she knew when she left Japan (in the 1940s) she can remember only a handful and often has trouble reading the letters her old classmates send her.
She did recognize the ones I've learned (perhaps reinforcing their basicness). I suppose I should pick her brain a bit while I still can. We're fortunate that she's still so lucid and independent at 90, and I know she'd like to see more of the kids.
On the other hand, she likes English so much better than Japanese. She's been away from it long enough to be objective about how complex all the levels of politeness are, and how ridiculously difficult it is to write and read with kanji.
