Korean

     Today would be kind of an aniversary day, because I talked to an native Korean student for the first time. I was glad my pronunciation was good. When I was walking my dog a couple of weeks ago, I met some junior high school students who were North Korean residents in Japan. There is a Korean junior and junior high school near my house. I tried to speak a couple of phrases in Korean. "Hello!", "This dog's name is Mocha.", "See you!",,,. All these phrases were understood by them. However, they were born and grew up in Japan. I mean, they were not native Korean. Today's lady was literally a native korean. She has been learning economics at Matsuyama University since last September. I was lucky to know her. I asked her to meet me a couple of times a month, one hour each session, somewhere in her campus. Next time I will introduce myself in korean. I'm writing a text of self-introduction now. I'll have it corrected by her and memorize the correct text. I feel Korean spicy foods are waiting for me in the Korean Peninsula.

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[Toshimitsu Watanabe]

Hi, Michito. I just read your brog on Korean and that reminded me of Heinrich Schliemann who found the city of Troy and could fluently speak about 13 foreign languages. His way to learn the languages was as similar as you have done, taking a lesson from an educated native speaker, writing essays upon subjects of interest, having them corrected, learning what was corrected by heart, and repeating them in the next lesson.
Go for it.
One of your classmates, Toshimitsu Watanabe