It's alive! Or was... the effects of a 6 year old

[Shima]

Been dying to post about 5 million pictures this summer, but couldn't all summer while I was at Middlebury College under my language pledge since I didn't want to initiate English conversations in a Japanese environment :(
Oh it feels good to be allowed to talk in English again.... Anyhoo,

A few weekends ago I went and visited my family while I was up here, and evidently my 2nd cousin thinks it's fun to open clam shells when they're alive or something...

http://shima.smugmug.com/photos/29739386-M-1.jpg

[lynnma]

Been dying to post about 5 million pictures this summer, but couldn't all summer while I was at Middlebury College under my language pledge since I didn't want to initiate English conversations in a Japanese environment :(
Oh it feels good to be allowed to talk in English again.... Anyhoo,

A few weekends ago I went and visited my family while I was up here, and evidently my 2nd cousin thinks it's fun to open clam shells when they're alive or something...

Hi Shima welcome back! WOW Janpanese environment?? I assume you are now speaking Japanese fluently???:uhoh

[Shima]

ペラペラじゃないでも、会話や作文や他のことが出来ます。I'm not fluent, but I can do conversations, essays and other various things. 私は初級二の授業を受けました。I took the level 2 class. 今、三百五十漢字ぐらいよめって書けます。I can read and write about 350 kanji now (from memory).

It was truly an amazing experience, and I love not neeting a dictionary to get through the average conversation, but I still can't talk about specialized things like "the environment" or "politics" but I can talk about lots of other things :) I don't pause or stumble anymore when I talk now in comparison to before, the transformation is just amazing.

Hi Shima welcome back! WOW Janpanese environment?? I assume you are now speaking Japanese fluently???:uhoh