[10文で読める物語] Note: I'm trying something a little different today: I'm going to use (my) more natural English style, which I hope will be more interesting for English learners. I may have to simplify the Japanese version to avoid spending the whole day translating :). With that said, here's my story for today: My Japanese teacher gave me a children's book a few weeks ago. It's called "Stories you can read in 10 minutes." I like the stories in the book, but I have to say, the experience of reading them makes me feel somewhat pathetic. You see, the stories are written for third graders 「三年生」, and they're supposed to take 10 minutes to read, but each one takes me _hours_! My Japanese vocabulary isn't very strong, so I have to lookup many words. I have learned many kanji, but I have trouble sometimes when a word is written in hiragana. For example, I can read 「嬉しい」but I might forget 「うれしい」! You can imagine this is really bad when trying to talk with people! Does everyone feel this way when learning a new language? I like to think that I'm a smart person, but balancing work and family and friends _and_ learning Japanese has been very challenging. I know I don't study enough, and I need to practice listening and talking as well. I'm trying to "reset" my studies this summer and get back to spending at least 30 minutes a day. Wish me luck! 日本語の先生が私に子供の本をくれました。「10文で読める物語」と言います。本の物語は好きだけど読ることは痛々しく感じます。物語は三年生で書いた、十分を読めることはかかるはずです。でも、わたし、3時間をかかります！日本語の単語はちょっとダメでワードたくさんを検索しなければなりません。たくさん漢字を暗記したけどひらがなで書くワードはときどき難しいです。例えば「嬉しい」が読めるでも「うれしい」が覚えません！人々と話す時ではとてもよくないですね？ 皆さんは新しい言語を学ぶことは同じ感じますか？私はスマートの人とおもう…けど仕事や家族や友達を過ごすことと日本語の勉強するこをバランスをとることは大変です。 勉強することは十分じゃない、もっと聞くのと話すのは練習しなければなりません。夏で勉強を元に戻して毎日３０文を練習しています。頑張ります！