Nihongo Pera Pera
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Susan Millington. Nihongo Pera Pera
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NIHONGO PERA PERA!
I came to Japan for the first time 23 years ago as a newlywed, to begin married life in a country I knew almost nothing about. I made the journey by sea with my husband, a young British diplomat. It took us seven weeks to reach our destination. When I first learned I was going to Japan, I had no grand design on how to go about mastering Japanese, although the long sea journey meant I would have plenty of time for reading and study. Once on board the ship, I started to explore, in a leisurely fashion, what lay ahead of me. I scanned my blue and yellow Teach Yourself Japanese for days, confident I was making great progress. When we disembarked at Yokohoma, I had, in effect, mastered only two words of Japanese: pen and inki. I did not realize that pen really referred to something other than a fountain pen, whose correct name was mannenhitsu. Even the word inki let me down, as it is now more commonly pronounced and spelled inku.
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The cows, who had been eating grass in the pasture, returned to their shed when evening fell.
gā gā duck's quack, goose's honk
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