"I learned by doing." To overcome his linguistic handicap, he even copied out a Chinese translation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther by hand. As he wrote, he'd compare the Chinese with a Japanese translation, and also practice his writing by doing Japanese-Chinese translations.
為了克服中文障礙，他甚至抄《少年維特的煩惱》中譯本，一邊抄寫一邊對照中日兩種文字的運用技巧，另外也透過翻譯訓練寫作。