Hey y’all,

I started a Textfugu membership when I was in high school, but now I’m in college, and I made the mistake of being one of the 90% of people who quit studying Japanese. I still remember a bit of it (particularly the kana), but now I wish to study the shamisen at a university in Kyoto. My number one passion is music, but language learning is also something I love. I moved from Japanese to French, and my French is decent. I wanted to get back into Japanese now that I have more experience learning a language and have more concrete goals/reasons for learning it.

My reasons are:
-to travel to Kyoto and learn the shamisen (which I plan to do in the spring of 2019)
-so I can visit Mount Fuji and cry about it (mountains make me cry), as well as see sakura blossom before I die
-so I can read the Tale of Genji in Japanese and play The Legend of Zelda in the original text (this is important for some of the Japan-only spin off games)
-so I can read untranslated haiku and tanka (I’m an English major and love poetry)

I probably shouldn’t have that many reasons, but my interests/focus/priorities change so often that I need reasons in different categories (music, travel, literature) related to my main passions.

All that aside, I’m looking forward to getting back into Japanese!!

• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by  David Swayne.
• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by  David Swayne.