Learning Japanese
Monday, April 9th, 2007I was reading this post by funnyoldlife and it brought to mind the time when I considered studying Law and Japanese at university, during the time I was studying my A Levels and deciding which universities to apply to through UCAS and which courses.
During secondary school, I learnt Welsh, French and German, eventually going on to study German at GCSE and A Level. I have always harboured a desire to learn Japanese and/or Mandarin, and this is why I considered studying Japanese at university. However, I was put off when I learnt that spoken Japanese relies heavily on intonation to inflect the meaning of spoken words. I thought to myself: “how can I learn to speak Japanese if I won’t be able to lipread when it’s being intoned in a certain way?”.
Now, funnyoldlife has said he learnt Japanese at university. Time for me to go to college, methinks! One question though: what can you do in terms of communication support?
