I really like to study language because there are many words with same meaning and some word can fit with the sentence better that's why I like to study them. The language I interested other than english is Japanese because I listen to japanese songs and I have become interested in the language and the meaning of the song.
Media Production
I always wonder when I think about a making of movie like script,scene element or soundtracks while watching a movie or sometimes when I saw a scene with extraordinary camera placement I was like "Wow,I have never seen this camera angle before".
Progamming and Game development
Since I like to play video games,of course it also interested me about programming because it really amazing when you make an application program to make anywork more convenient.
And for game development,I interested because when I played in a story mode,it feels like I'm in that situation and really enjoy the interaction between each character. It's feel like watching a movie but with a deeper perspective.
Thank you Ins. I notice that you edited a bit more before you published your blog post for us to comment on. That's fine. I'm glad to see that you successfully did this. We will be blogging regularly, so our first post, introducing our academic interests, was to both help us learn a bit more about each other, and to learn how to use the blogger tools.
ReplyDeleteDo you also speak Japanese? I've read a bit of Japanese literature in translation, and it's great. One of my favourites is the very long Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (I think I remembered that correctly). I liked it not only because it's brilliantly written, but for the insights it gives us into the very exotic world of the old Japanese imperial court.
I also liked your first idea about there being many words with the same meaning. In the English vocabulary, there are also many words with very different meanings depending on the context. For example, which is something we'll be worrying about as we start working on the language exercises in Skillful.
I never learn Japanese ,I just know a few words and their meaning but I do not know about "How to write them in Japanese" or about Kanji and Hiragana letters.
DeleteMany people said Japanese is harder to learn than Chinese and Korean but I find it interesting because I like it
I actually thought that Chinese was easier than Thai. Thai is bit like English. It is a mixture of many languages, each of which add some grammar, some vocabulary and modify each other to produce a final result that is very complex. Chinese was easier for me because it was much less mixed up than I found Thai, which has the original Thai language mixed up with a lot of Pali/ Sanskrit, and Khmer, and more recently English.
DeleteEnglish is even worse: the original English from around 400 AD was soon added to by Germanic and Scandinavian languages by Viking invaders, then German, and then from 1066 English got a lot of French, and French versions of the Latin that came with the Romans, and finally English borrowed from every nation that the English traded with or fought, even Chinese has contributed words to English, such as typhoon. And as Yoon's post reminds us, the old languages of the Bible had a big influence on English, especially from the 16th century on. This makes English spelling and grammar ... messy. But it's the reason that the plural of child is children (it's an Old English word from Old German).
I missed to mention in my post that I love also languages, linguistics and also translation. I am sometimes obsessed about getting the equivalent meaning between a pair of languages, English-Thai, for example.
ReplyDeleteI once studied Japanese because of their awesome pop culture like manga and animation. The hardest part of Japanese would be the alphabet Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Until now, I never feel natural looking at a Japanese word, still have to take time to mix consonants and vowels to produce a sound, word and then the meaning. As same as Peter, I read Japanese lit. in translation. My favorite write is Haruki Murakami. He is quite popular among Thai hipsters. It is funny that once I told this to my Japansese friends, they said the more popular in Japan is another Murakami hahaha. His name is Ryu Murakami. He is famous for his suspense novels. I recently read one of his, Audition, quite an irony style of story telling.
I am also studying German because I plan do a Master's in Germany. The language is very very challenging with grammatical gender and infection. Since it shares with English, the same Germanic language family, I get confused easily, with words and structure, between one and another.
I also really like study language too. But Japanese is not in my list.
ReplyDeleteHave you produced any movies? I have seen that many youtubers just created their on media by paint program and that's sound amazing.
I love playing games. But I haven't played it for a long time due to my preparation. If you like to create a game. I heard that python of unity software will be a good language for beginners.
I learned Japanese when I was at high school year 2 and 3. I think it's not quite difficult if you can remember vocabs and kanji, but I can't so I didn't pass N5.
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