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rainwaterspark) wrote2009-10-08 04:18 pm
rainwaterspark) wrote2009-10-08 04:18 pm
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Here, we have a language table for nearly every language program offered here (except for Arabic and Chinese, as far as I know). I went to the Japanese language table today, even though I'm only, uh, six weeks into my intro class.
So, yeah, I felt kind of pathetic because I couldn't understand any questions that were asked to me (and I probably used the wrong level of formality, ugh). But hey, thanks to the prevalence of English in Japanese, my knowledge of random vocab, and the fact that students use simple sentences (I think), most of the time I was able to figure out the topic of conversation, if not the content.
So, yeah, I felt kind of pathetic because I couldn't understand any questions that were asked to me (and I probably used the wrong level of formality, ugh). But hey, thanks to the prevalence of English in Japanese, my knowledge of random vocab, and the fact that students use simple sentences (I think), most of the time I was able to figure out the topic of conversation, if not the content.