{"id":34,"date":"2014-04-04T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2014-04-04T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:58:30","slug":"japanese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/himejijo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48 alignright\" alt=\"Himeji Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/himejijo-300x283.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/himejijo-300x283.jpg 300w, http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/himejijo.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I have been spending a lot of time studying the Japanese language. Why am I interested in Japan and the Japanese language? Good question.<\/p>\n<p>I became interested in Asia when I worked in Asia for Tyco and had the opportunity to travel around much of Asia. I visited many areas in Asia, but spent most of my time in Japan, Korea, and China. Definitely made me more interested in Asian cultures. After I left the company, I decided to take some time off from work and study a language. Over my life, I have tried to learn 4 different languages (French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese), but was disappointed with myself that I never put the effort in to become fluent in any of them.<\/p>\n<p>With my interest and experiences in Asia, Japanese seemed like it would be the most useful for me to learn, so I decided to study focus on Japan and Japanese. I spent 4 months at an intensive Japanese Language school near Nagoya in 2003 (see <a>Studying in Japan 2003 Blog<\/a> for more information) and another 2 months in 2005 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/peter-japan2005.blogspot.com\/\">Studying in Japan 2005 Blog<\/a>). And I have been taking classes 1 night a week at <a href=\"http:\/\/users.aol.com\/sokogakuen\/\">Soko Gakuen Japanese Language School<\/a> in San Francisco since then. Though I have been studying it a lot, it is a difficult language and I am not good at it yet. Sometimes I wonder if with all this effort I will ever become fluent in Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I have been spending a lot of time studying the Japanese language. Why am I interested in Japan and the Japanese language? Good question. I became interested in Asia when I worked in Asia for Tyco and had the opportunity to travel around much of Asia. I visited many areas in Asia, but spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/49"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}