The second half of week #2 is Mango! I love mango. I love eating them. I like learning from it. I like all mangoes! Ok, in all seriousness, I love Mango language learner! Not only is it one of the very few language learner programs that include Gaelic, but is so easy to use as well.
Proud librarian moment here - one of my Manga/Anime club members is using Mango to learn Japanese!!! I am so thrilled!
We are asked to select a language for this lesson, and in the true spirit of my love of Japanese manga, I will of course go with Japanese. I like the information about where the language is spoken. For some reason, I am a bit surprised that Japanese is really only spoken in Japan. I would have thought that it would have worked it way into various other areas, at least as a secondary language. Over 130 million people speak Japanese, and I want to add to that number. Also, they say that the 2000s was the decade that the Japanese language has invaded America, and I have to agree with that! The manga/anime culture has grown exponentially in the last 20 years! Let's all thank Inuyasha, Naruto, and Bleach for this.
I went ahead and did lesson #1. That was really fun and quite simple to work through. I need to go back and make a user account; it was that easy, I want to do more. I really like the repetitive nature of the lesson. It really does help solidify and remember the words you said. I would have like to have seen a comprehensive overview of what was covered in each lesson as the last slide or so, but perhaps that was continued in the next lesson. I didn't go onto the next. That is for another day.
Ii tenki desu ne? I must say, no. The weather is not fine. It's snowing. Blech!
This is how I feel today.
Hola!! (Spanish is where I've spent my time :) Thank you for the great post! Julie
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