{"id":32,"date":"2025-02-02T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/?p=32"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:04:49","slug":"wow-i-can-read-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/2025\/02\/02\/wow-i-can-read-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow. I can read that."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After I learned I would be teaching in Japan, I immediately began <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/2025\/01\/19\/%e3%81%af%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%aa%9e%e3%81%a7%e3%81%aa%e3%82%93%e3%81%a8%e8%a8%80%e3%81%84%e3%81%be%e3%81%99%e3%81%8b%e3%80%82how-do-you-say-in-japanese\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"22\">studying Japanese<\/a>. To my chagrin, I discovered there were 3 character sets required to read Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji). My first book (a very thoughtful and useful gift) focused on learning Hiragana, so that seemed like a good place to start. I&#8217;ve been chipping away at the character set, using a variety of learning tools (including a couple of free apps) to complement the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I went shopping at H-Mart (a big Asian grocery). As I wandered the aisle, I studied packages of Japanese products looking for Hiragana characters on the labels. While I was doing so, I had a moment I&#8217;d not experienced with a language in many years. The container I picked up had little English on it, but I saw \u3042\u305a\u304d and realized I knew the characters! So, I sounded it out (in my head, because I&#8217;m not a weird guy who talks to packaging): A-dzu-ki. The product was adzuki bean paste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I started looking for packages of products, searching for hiragana characters  I knew. It was a long <s>reading<\/s> shopping trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a rewarding moment of realization that I was, indeed, learning and retaining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3044\u3063\u3066\u6765\u307e\u3059. (see you later)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I learned I would be teaching in Japan, I immediately began studying Japanese. To my chagrin, I discovered there were 3 character sets required&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/2025\/02\/02\/wow-i-can-read-that\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wow. I can read that.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-language","category-preparation","category-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/kyotobound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}