Author Archives: Nathaniel Flores

Almost the end of the summer! It’s only one more week after this until I’m done with this program. That’s as saddening as it is exciting, because while I greatly dislike this ridiculous Hyaku textbook I really am starting to … Continue reading →

So there’s a reason I’ve been splitting these two weeks into one post again, which is mainly because I wanted to make life easier on the reader who likely doesn’t want to slog through a boring repetitive schedule of “I … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! I was planning on writing a post earlier than this, but nothing of interest really happened during the fourth week, so I decided to delay the post for another week rather than write about studying more words and … Continue reading →

Another week, another round of a lot of material! In this last week we covered seemingly almost all of Genki 2, which at some schools is the entire second year of Japanese. I’m slightly concerned about the pace with which … Continue reading →

Hello again everyone! So far it’s been yet another week of intensive studying during the week matched but also quite a lot of not-working during the weekends, which is a good balance. This week we finished an absurd amount of … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! I had a really good first week of settling into the program and adjusting to life in Kyoto. It was really great getting to walk around the city and use the train for the first time amongst other … Continue reading →