what i enjoy mostly about my work is being able to be creative in branding Echolac. And tomorrow, i'll be training our staff to greet people in Japanese! ;) so what i had to do was to learn japanese first. i actually wanted trainors to come to my training but since there are conflict of schedules, i can't do as planned. so i had to learn it myself.
having a chinese education really helped, cause it helped me pronounce the words quite easily. as i practiced with my Japanese trainors - they're both Okinawan-Japanese (a mother-daughter tandem), i really learned a lot about their culture, our similarities and differences, etc. I didn't know that when Japanese reads our Chinese characters, they would understood it in their language! It's just amazing. ;)
sumimasen (excuse me), i have to go now. sayonara!