Finding success in freedom to fail
I SPENT two years of my time at the University studying Japanese. I did well at first because I had had some Japanese in high school, but my grade continually slipped each semester. I was terrible at Japanese, really terrible. I would study hard and do poorly and then lose hope and not study so hard and do even worse. It was a frustrating time for me in a class that some students took as a grade booster. I wondered what was wrong with me and why I had such a struggle with Japanese. Kanji was my archenemy and grammar lectures and chapter quizzes my nemesis.