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title: "I'm a Student Again"
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description: I started taking Japanese classes at CCSF.
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slug: student-again
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date: 2025-09-02
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tags:
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    - Life
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    - School
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    - japanese
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    - CCSF
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I've been fortunate to take two trips to Japan over the last couple years.
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Leading up to those trips, I picked up learning Japanese, attempting to build
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some basic language skills for getting around. At first, I used [Duolingo][dja]
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but recently switched to [Migaku][mja].
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When I returned from our most recent trip, I decided to find a class so I can
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practice speaking skills. [Community College of San Francisco][ccsf] has an
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excellent program called "[Free City][fc]" that grants free tuition to residents
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of the city. It also has [Japanese program][ccsfja]. So I enrolled in their
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online Japanese 1A course.
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This is my first time taking formal classes since I graduated college. I'm
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looking forward to learning in a more structured way again, and also getting a
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chance to practice speaking with people rather than talking at my phone screen.
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[dja]: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ja/en/Learn-Japanese
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[mja]: https://migaku.com/learn-japanese
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[ccsf]: https://www.ccsf.edu
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[ccsfja]: https://www.ccsf.edu/degrees-certificates/japanese
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[fc]: https://www.ccsf.edu/free-city
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