My wife wants to study for a Japanese beer qualification in an effort to learn more about beer, it’s core ingredients, production processes etc. She also wants me to do it, despite my own qualification somewhat superceding it. I agreed as I definitely need to improve my Japanese, especially in relation to beer and brewing. Also studying together will give me practice talking about it in Japanese.

There are 3 levels, and we are going to study for levels 3 and 2. Level 1 is unnecessary, it involves writing sections and I don’t have time for that level of study again but from levels 3 and 2, I should be able to more effectively talk about brewing in Japanese.

So, I spent about an hour or so fiddling with my once presumed dead kindle to wipe it and align it with my JP account. Bought the text book for the course and spent about 4 hours slowly reading through the first chapter of the first part. It is only 5 pages long but I am very rusty so much of it was looking up new kanji, noting the readings and key points. I am now ready to study this part with my wife..

This is the part that doesn’t appear to be considered.. 4 hours for 5 pages.. during February we will study chapters 2 and 3 of part 1, that’s 43 pages.. based on today, that’s about 35 hours of study on top of us studying together, March is the biggest month at 44 pages.. there will be repetition of kanji and I will become less rusty but.. it is pretty daunting.