I was walking home yesterday looking at the amazing Sakura starting to bloom when I realised as beautiful as Sakura is, it’s life span is only a couple of weeks at the longest!
Sometimes when we start to learn Japanese or anything new for that, we get all excited, we share it with the world and everyone comments and praises us for the great start in learning Japanese, we go out we buy a lot of books and download every Japanese App we can find. We are pumped excited and the road ahead looks easy!
Do you ever feel like this? Everything looks like green lights!
Then, after a few days or even weeks you realise you have actually done nothing… what happened to all that excitement and enthusiasm?
The truth is we don’t want Sakura Japanese! As beautiful as it is, it only blossoms once a year for a very short time frame!
What you want is Bonsai Japanese! Slow but steady! At first it does not look very impressive but over years of hard consistent work it begins to take shape!
Like your Japanese a Bonsai can be shaped and grown anyway you like. Each Bonsai is individual just like your Japanese. Your Japanese path and journey will not be like the person next to you.
To truly succeed at learning Japanese there is one secret ingredient that you do need! You need to have a REASON, a GOAL, or a PURPOS!
Without either of these your Japanese will be like Sakura, beautiful but short lived!
one of the oldest Bonsai’s is about 1000 years old!
It might not look very impressive but if you kept learning Japanese one Kanji one word at a time you would have some pretty amazing Japanese skills! It’s not about how fast you learn but about being consistent day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year!
Just like the three Bonsai above! Each is over 400 years old! Two of them 800 years old! That’s what I call impressive!
Have a reason, make it achievable and then work on it consistently!
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