Learning

     I'm thinking, just thinking of learning another new language. Mandarin Chinese? or Russian?
     A motorcycle trip around the Sea of Japan is one of my dreams after retirement. Starting from Shimonoseki in Japan, to Pusan by ferryboat, going up the east coast of South and North Korea, entering into Russia, crossing Mamiya Strait (the Strait of Tartary in English) to Karafuto (Sakhalin in Russian) and coming back to Wakkanai in Hokkaido. Both Mandarin Chinese and Russian look so difficult to learn, even if I only learn daily conversation in those languages.
     I know that there is so much still to learn in this world. I turn 49 in September. Though it means that I've already passed a half of my life, I feel that I am just beginning to scratch the surface of all there is to learn. Maybe if I can learn some of what there is to learn, I can pass that on, but I know that there is so much that I will never begin to learn.
     Anyway, MAKE IT HAPPEN!

(Vocabulary)
scratch the surface
表面を引っかく、上っ面をなでる、上っ面だけを扱う［論じる］
〔研究・学習などを〕ほんの少し学ぶ［かじる］
やらなければならないことがまだまだある
Your explanation's just scratched the surface of the matter.
君の説明は上っ面をなでたにすぎない。

(KW:間宮海峡 樺太)

Comments

[Hokuto from MIXI]

I learn Russian. I want to conquer English and Russian. Because these languages are very useful.

There are many good books in English, and NOW I use it.

I live in north part of Japan. The distance from here to Khavarovsk is shorter than that of Tokyo! Our country cannot move to other place from the BIG BEAR. In someday, I want to chat with Russian people in Russian. :)