Oh, wow what a coincidence? Haha, no, I don't believe in accidents or coincidences What prompted you to start studying the language? How far in are you? I eventually convinced my daughter to go to school to study it, she was a few years out of high school by then and floundering a bit in life, not working and not really knowing what to do but having this huge passion for their language and culture, so she finally caved to my urgings and took a year of Japanese at college and aced the course, I was so proud of her! Though she always wondered what she could do professionally with the language if anything, and that was a deterrent to her, so she only did that one year Shortly after that she volunteered for three years at a cat sanctuary where they housed almost a thousand cats; she looked after the feline aids and leukemia cats, and that probably really helped her get a job as a vet assistant where she has been working for the last two years and some She finds the work very challenging partially because she is such a wisp of a young woman and she is having to deal with some pretty large dogs at times, but it is what she has really always wanted to do Do you have plan to use Japanese professionally?
Well, actually I was at camp one year and a Councelor was teaching to write some characters for an activity we were doing and I really enjoyed it, so I went to her and asked if she could teach me more during break and her eyes lit up and she was like "You really want to learn more?" And I smiled and nodded and so she taught me during break. I kept the notes we did and studied them that year. She came back the next year to see if I was okay and she gave me her email if I ever needed her, so I emailed her when a problem arouse and I needed someone to talk to, and eventually the chat got to when she was going to Japan, so I once again asked if she could continue teaching me, she said of course and sent me a letter of a bunch of hiragana worksheets and it just continued from there.
I am not very far because there have been times where teaching was interupted by her trips and Japan and well, when you teach by mail it goes pretty slow lol.
I am fluent in introductions
(Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, how are you?, goodbye, I am well, what's your name, my name is ___) stuff like that and i have the hiragana alphabet memorized and can spell out words in hiragana and read words in hiragana