What I am interested in is some interesting phenomena about Asian culture, which have different expressions in each country. I want to choose a course to get a precise and in-depth understanding.  Many of the readings offered in this course relate to the cultures that need to be understood. The reading provided by the course is equivalent to an additional extracurricular reading, which contains the reading content and related knowledge related to the classroom content, and is the expansion and extension of the classroom content.

For this course, I usually read the required articles and test them by sorting them out. The second is to learn the course by reviewing and watching the PPT repeatedly. This class in a lot of knowledge level changed my perception of “linguistics” in this area, such as Japanese men and women in the form of expression and tone words have very big different, in my previous cognitive, there is a lot of language in Japanese law, but for the division of gender has such a significant difference between the two is my new knowledge on the cognitive domain.

To some extent, this course did not change my way of thinking, but just added some different ways of thinking. Let me learn how to change the position to think and understand that different ways of thinking will lead to different events.

This photo was taken at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The painting was painted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The text on the picture is Japanese. The painting shows a woman pulling a striped fabric. The theme of the painting is to thank the guards of baotaro who answered the prayer. Ukiyoe masters at the end of the edo period used novel designs, unrestrained ideas and solid painting skills to break through the framework of ukiyoe and create many attractive works. He was one of the representative painters in the late period of ukiyo-e painting school. In the class, the Japanese class covered how to use three writing systems. For kanji, hiragana and katakana. In the picture I took, there are Chinese characters and hiragana. In context, it is an embodiment of the meaning to be expressed in the work. The purpose of these Japanese words is to tell the viewer what the picture means.

So far, my classroom experience has been good, except for many professional words and sentences that I need to concentrate on taking time to remember and digest. The upcoming mid-term exam is a challenge for me. I don’t know anything about the classroom materials, but there are many concepts and knowledge that I need to spend time to learn and distinguish. I will constantly review the presentation and memorize it over and over again, because my learning method is to keep learning for a long time and get certain satisfactory results.

Hello everyone, my name is Blanca Ding and my Chinese name is Yiru Ding. I come from China and I am a sophomore majoring in education. I am very interested in Japanese and I am struggling to explore it.

After entering the sophomore year, I clearly felt that the pace of college life began to change. Maybe because I lived in the dormitory in my freshman year, I could only feel the convenience and relaxed daily life. But sophomore life may have obvious differences, I am looking forward to.

I have two cats. They are my family. I need to give my mother a reason before I choose to adopt them. My reason was simple: I needed a few living creatures in my house. Last holiday I brought them back to my country to take them out to play, and to my surprise, I was worried that they would vomit and defecate on a long flight. But they didn’t. Instead, I got airsick at first.

The reason why I choose this course is that I am studying Japanese and I am very interested in the traditional culture of Japan and Korea. My favorite Japanese director is 是枝裕和である, and I like his storytelling and presentation. I just want to know more about the culture of the country I am interested in, which will help me to watch movies and read books.