Excited to be on the First Year Japanese class!

Hi everyone, I'm Qian Xu and I'm Chinese.

I've always been very interested in the Japanese Language. I like Japanese animation, drama series, and I want to understand the text on the package of Japanese cosmetics! :p In fact, I tried to pick up some during college, but unfortunately I was so self-disciplinary as I thought I could be :(

This time, by joining your guys in the first year Japanese course, I can stick to the learning pattern and hopefully make some real progress.

Actually I find myself somewhat frustrated about memorizing characters in the Hiragana. This is not the first time I carefully studied them, but they are like new to me again! Why do they all look like the same >.< I think I'll have to spend more time, practice more, and catch up with the rest of the class.

很高兴加入一年级日语！希望和大家共同努力，天天进步！也谢谢老师的耐心教学！
(Simplified Chinese: Glad to be in the First Year Japanese class! Hopefully we can try hard together and make progress every day! Thank you sensei for your kindness and patience in your teaching!)

(Well well, do Chinese characters and Kanji look alike? They do, but they also have significant differences. Kanji is more similar to traditional Chinese, but what we use is simplified Chinese. (Well the Taiwanese and Hong Kong people use the traditional ones) And the pronunciations are totally different! So I have an advantage at wring kanji but the downside is that every time I see kanji I read them as Chinese characters in my mind, which is very bad for memorizing their sounds! T.T)