The Way of the Word demands as much discipline as the Way of the Sword.
Sometimes it’s really difficult. Sometimes you don’t want to keep going, but you just know you have to.
Musashi says we have to practice with the sword every day, until it’s like an extension of our arm. The same is true for the Word. We have to be in contact with the language as much as we can, so it’s going to be as natural to our brain as our mother tongue is.
Currently, studying Nihongo is part of my everyday life. I go to work by train and go back home through the same means. Thus, I have more or less three and a half idle hours, and I use them to study.
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Hirano Takeichi 