i consider myself literate in English. In fact when I was in grade school, i receive comments from teachers that I am good in English. I have written letters, articles, journals in English. And in high school, my classmates thought that I am fluent in every language that I use (maybe, they just wanted to tell me that I was better than them, not really that good. haha).
Be that as it may, I came to think that I wanted to learn other languages aside from English and my own language, and so I enrolled on a Nihongo course. It was a challenging language because Japanese have a different mode of writing. Since I was eager to equip my mind with a new knowledge of other languages, I was able to master the hiragana and katakana characters. But when I reached to the part where learning the kanji, I choked some air. The sensei said there are thousands of them. Ha! Now I only remember 5 of these characters.
Yesterday, I stumbled on a page written in Japanese; and that was when I was reminded how illiterate I am to other languages than Filipino and English.
