A Better Use for My Time?
haha... I think i just might have something more productive to fill my time! I should take up language classes. Which do u think is better? Japanese or Korean?
Actually i've taken up Japanese classes before, just that i didn't finish the course! What a waste of my money right? haha... But back then, i took up the class with someone i didn't really liked so i quit the class midway. Anyway the person i took with didn't finish the course either, coz she was always skipping class and asking me to take notes for her. That's damn irritating.
Anyway the teacher was alson an Indian guy, yah great... the way he speak his jap was like some crazy guy on steroids. He speak so damn fast and his pronunciation so unclear, i doubt i would learn anything in the end.
But nothing to worry about this time, the jap classes would be taught by native japanese so i believe it should be fine. Actually my main motive for picking up the language again is to get certified, haha... then i can put it in my resume as my third language already and it doesn't end there. i would like to take up other languages as well. Coz one of my wishes is to get posted to other country to work! haha... An expat... haha... To work overseas, it would be easier if u speak their language. U blend in easily then u'll be the envy of your friends. Muahahahahaha....
Haha... If those Ang mohs can do it, so can i.
I now have a new goal in life, that is whenever i can, i would seek to improve myself. Not just to make myself more marketable as a worker but more appealing as a person as well. Haha... Typical alpha male trait- one big "swiss army knife".
So back to the question again, korean or japanese?
Korean is the "in" thing now. With all your "Full House" and "Jewel in the Palace" but Japanese is the more traditionally popular third language and more widely used.
Personally i would learn both if i have the time, but to get certified for both is time consuming, so got to plan properly. I only have so long before i have to start working already. So i'm planing to learn one first then learn the other one when i have the free time again.
But there's a more important issue closer to home, that is to improve my chinese. It has been more than 6 year since i have wrote anything in proper chinese. i need to start writing chinese essays already, the last essay i wrote was back in secondary school. The only practice i had for chinese would be from going to KTVs singing all my chinese songs. haha...
Actually, i think many singaporean still could not speak or write proper english or chinese. Their linguistic skill are only limited to basic communication and could not understand more profound meanings to the language others speak. Which is worse than being call a "banana". At least a "banana is a chinese who only knows how to speak english, hence yellow outside, white inside. A singaporean is now one which could do neither.
The school system wished for their students to learn both English and Chinese and be good enough to use them in society, but they fail to understand that language is a skill which requires life long learning. U do not stop after secondary school. But then, it doesn't matter coz this would be their undoing to their own sons and daughters. As for me, i would bring up my kid to be fluent and eloquent in both English and Chinese, as well as have a good command in one other language as well.
As u see, language is the basis of communication. The more lauguages u know the more u can communicate. And communication is a powerful tool in today's business world. Wah chee... if singapore trades in oil, i would be the first to learn arabic... haha...
haha... I think i just might have something more productive to fill my time! I should take up language classes. Which do u think is better? Japanese or Korean?
Actually i've taken up Japanese classes before, just that i didn't finish the course! What a waste of my money right? haha... But back then, i took up the class with someone i didn't really liked so i quit the class midway. Anyway the person i took with didn't finish the course either, coz she was always skipping class and asking me to take notes for her. That's damn irritating.
Anyway the teacher was alson an Indian guy, yah great... the way he speak his jap was like some crazy guy on steroids. He speak so damn fast and his pronunciation so unclear, i doubt i would learn anything in the end.
But nothing to worry about this time, the jap classes would be taught by native japanese so i believe it should be fine. Actually my main motive for picking up the language again is to get certified, haha... then i can put it in my resume as my third language already and it doesn't end there. i would like to take up other languages as well. Coz one of my wishes is to get posted to other country to work! haha... An expat... haha... To work overseas, it would be easier if u speak their language. U blend in easily then u'll be the envy of your friends. Muahahahahaha....
Haha... If those Ang mohs can do it, so can i.
I now have a new goal in life, that is whenever i can, i would seek to improve myself. Not just to make myself more marketable as a worker but more appealing as a person as well. Haha... Typical alpha male trait- one big "swiss army knife".
So back to the question again, korean or japanese?
Korean is the "in" thing now. With all your "Full House" and "Jewel in the Palace" but Japanese is the more traditionally popular third language and more widely used.
Personally i would learn both if i have the time, but to get certified for both is time consuming, so got to plan properly. I only have so long before i have to start working already. So i'm planing to learn one first then learn the other one when i have the free time again.
But there's a more important issue closer to home, that is to improve my chinese. It has been more than 6 year since i have wrote anything in proper chinese. i need to start writing chinese essays already, the last essay i wrote was back in secondary school. The only practice i had for chinese would be from going to KTVs singing all my chinese songs. haha...
Actually, i think many singaporean still could not speak or write proper english or chinese. Their linguistic skill are only limited to basic communication and could not understand more profound meanings to the language others speak. Which is worse than being call a "banana". At least a "banana is a chinese who only knows how to speak english, hence yellow outside, white inside. A singaporean is now one which could do neither.
The school system wished for their students to learn both English and Chinese and be good enough to use them in society, but they fail to understand that language is a skill which requires life long learning. U do not stop after secondary school. But then, it doesn't matter coz this would be their undoing to their own sons and daughters. As for me, i would bring up my kid to be fluent and eloquent in both English and Chinese, as well as have a good command in one other language as well.
As u see, language is the basis of communication. The more lauguages u know the more u can communicate. And communication is a powerful tool in today's business world. Wah chee... if singapore trades in oil, i would be the first to learn arabic... haha...
