”I have always heard people say Japanese is a language that when you continued learning it would get more and more difficult and I also personally feel so. But the reward and the sense of achievement that you could get from stepping forward with this language are tremendous. After I had taken the first semester of Japanese classes, I passed through Tokyo during connection flight back home to China. Since the next flight was in the next morning, I had to take a shuttle bus from Narita Airport to the hotel and spent a night. I got up the courage and asked a worker outside airport which bus should I take to go to that hotel in the simplest Japanese I learned. Without any confusion about what I asked he understood my Japanese and replied to me. And without any confusion I understood his instructions. These interactions might sound very easy for someone who has studied for more than one year and even for me right now but I can still remember the excitement I felt like all the effort I made for learning this new language is worth it. This experience left a profound memory for me. Whenever I lose the motivation to study Japanese I tell myself there will be moment in the future when everything would worth it.”

「日本語はもっと勉強すると難しくなる言葉(ことば)だとたくさん人が言います。私もそう思う。でも、日本語が上手(じょうず)になったら、楽しくなるかもしれない。私が一学期の日本語の授業(じゅぎょう)を取った後、休みに二つ飛行機(ひこうき)の間(あいだ)に東京を通ります。次の飛行機は次の日の朝だから、ホテルで住まなくじゃいけません。私が勇気(ゆうき)を持って、空港(くうこう)の外(そと)で働き人に一番簡単(かんたん)な日本語でホテルまでどちらのシャトルバスに乗ると聞きました。その働き人は私の話を全部(ぜんぶ)わかって、答(こた)えました。私もその人の日本語を全部わかりました。日本語を長(なが)い間(あいだ)に習った人はそれが難しくないと思うかもしれませんけど、その時の私は本当に幸せでした。一生懸命(いっしょうけんめい)日本語を勉強(べんきょう)したけど、本当に日本人と会話をできましたから、すばらしいと思います。今勉強のやる気を持っていない時、その時の感じを思って、未来もっとすごい会話をできると信じて、日本語の勉強を続(つづ)けられます。」