アランの日本語のブログ

日本語で 毎日(まいにち)（土曜日以外）（どようびいがい）武道（ぶどう）のトレーニングがありますから午前６時に起（お）きます。朝（あさ）ご飯（はん）を食（た）べて、ストレッチして、そして６時５０分に武道（ぶどう）のスタジオにいきます。９時に家（うち）へ帰（かえ）ってシャワーします。火曜日（かようび）は１０時１０分から１１時２５分まで「Advanced Logic Design」（日本語で何（なん）ですか？）です。午後１時にカフェで昼（ひる）ご飯（はん）を食（た）べます。１時半から４時まで宿題（しゅくだい）をして勉強（べんきょう）します。４時１０分から５時１５分まで日本語のクラスがあります。６時４５分に大学（だいがく）の食堂（しょくどう）に行（い）って友達（ともだち）と晩（ばん）ご飯（はん）を食べます。１０時までまた勉強します。それから１１時まで読む。最後に寝ます。 In English Everyday (except Saturdays) I have martial arts training, so I wake up at 6 in the morning. I eat breakfast, stretch, and go to the martial arts studio at 6:50. At 9, I head home and shower. On Tuesdays, from 10:10 to 11:25 is “Advanced Logic Design.” At 1p.m I eat lunch at a cafe. From 1:30 to 4:00 I do homework and study. From 4:10 to 5:15 is Japanese class. At 6:45 I eat dinner with some friends at the university’s dining hall. I study again until 10 o’clock. Then I read until 11 o’clock. Finally, I go to sleep.

To be honest, Japanese is a little out of the way for me. At Columbia Engineering, there is no language requirement, and the general assumption is that there's too many science and math classes to take, so most people end up skipping language altogether just to graduate on time. But, this is the first semester in a while that I've had some extra time, so I figured why not do something a little different. Sort of on a whim, I dropped a class and decided to pick up a language. I had been deciding between Japanese and a few other languages, but I was convinced by a friend of mine from high school (who is, granted, Japanese) to choose Japanese, and I'm really glad I did. Thus far, it's been very rewarding to learn about a language so vastly removed from my own. I'm not particularly familiar with Japan outside of the things which come over to the US (e.g. a limited selection of games, music, technology, etc.), but I've already begun to appreciate the varied culture...

はじめまして、わたしはアランです。アメリカのフロリダからきました。 コロンビアだいがくのさんねんせいです。コンピュータこうがくをべんきょうします。どうぞよろしくおねがいします。