First day of Japanese Language Class

Yesterday(30 January) was the day we attended our first Japanese Language class in FBLR4021.Japanese is really not as easy as i thought. Its writing is divided into three catagories:Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. As explained by the lecturer, Madam Adeila Desu who had been studying her degree in Economics in Japan for five years, Katakana was used by gents whereas Hiragana was meant for ladies in the olden day of Japan. Japanese believed that ladies' handwriting should shows their demure and femininity. Hence, Hiragana which is more neatly and elegantly written was meant for female. However, in modern day, both writings are used. However, Katakana is only used for foreign words such as "McDonald". Moreover,our translated name is written in Katakana too. On the other hand, Kanji is the chinese characters. During their visit to China, Japanese found that Chinese were very creative as every word has its own originity.For instance, the word "xin"(heart) with three "dians"(dots) shows that our human heart actually have three main arteries and veins. Seeing the uniqueness of chinese characters, Japanese started to add in chinese characters in their language which is known as the Kanji today . I suddenly felt the pride of being born a chinese and being chinese educated~~In addition, we were taught the basic of Hiragana Writing...Gosh~ Do i need to memorise all those "words"..It's going to be hard~ but by hook or by crook i have to do it!!!!!!!Gambateh ne~~