My journey begins

By Abner Huertas

Hi, welcome to my blog. My name is Abner（アブナー）and I'd like to share with you my journey to learn a third language. On January first 2016, I decided to embark on a new journey: to learn Japanese. Since I was a little boy, now I'm 36, I wanted to learn another language, and in some way I've already done that because I learnt english, but what I truly wanted was to have a new challenge, something different. My native language is spanish by the way.

So I decided to learn a new language. My first question: Which language should I learn?; I was attracted to Korean as well, but let's say that it was like if something was telling me learn Japanese, and here I am, right now I can say that I'm learning Japanese.

One question that came to my mind was: How am I going to learn a third language? and How am I going to do it without neglecting the English; well I just remembered how I started to learn english and then to apply the same 'rules', of course with some changes, and just begin and have fun in the process, that's for the first question, and for the second one the answer was simple: to learn Japanese through my second language.

One of the 'easiest' parts of learning english is that it shares the same alphabet with spanish, well with some extra characters in spanish, but you don't have to learn a new alphabet. One of the must difficult things in english is that you don't pronounce a word in the same way you write it. In this way, one of the difficult things in Japanese is that you have to learn two syllabary and one ideogram, I'll talk to you about this in other posts; one of the 'easiest' things in Japanese, at least for native spanish speakers, is that the pronunciation is according to the writing. But well, that's what I now for the moment, because I'm an absolute beginner in Japanese.

In the following posts I will share with you my learning methods, perhaps some might sound to you if you're thinking to learn a third language. If you'd like to ask me something, please feel free to left a comment and I'll answer.

See you soon...

じゃまた。