Konnichiwa! (Hi from Japan)

[Akya]

Hello everyone! I'm still new here so I decided to introduce myself. I've been living in Japan for 3.5 years, and I'm doing my Bachelor of Engineering here (in Japanese). I first truly fell in love with Japan in 2007 when I did a 3 month exchange during high school. Before that I also studied Japanese in primary and middle school but wasn't really interested before living in the culture.

I started studying Italian a few months ago but only got serious the start of this month after spending a week in Italy. My boyfriend is Italian and we've been dating for almost 6 months (it's 8 days shy of our half year anniversary). I realised I mainly need to learn Italian so I can understand his friends and more importantly his MOTHER and family. His English is amazing but I don't want to rely on him pausing the conversation every now and again to translate for me. Plus most of the time I tell him to not bother.

Another reason for me to start studying it is that it's a very beautiful melodic language. It's often called a language of love. I can't wait to build my fluency to conversation level!

We're not even engaged yet but we've already joked (or mightv'e been serious) that our children will be raised as trilingualists - English, Italian and Japanese. So he wants me to teach him some Japanese so he'll know when the kids are cursing at him in Japanese etc

[linguaholic]

Hi there

Thank you for the introduction! I had lots of fun to read through it!

You already posted quite a lot of stuff in the japanese forums. Thank you very much for that! I am also studying Japanese but my knowledge is still very marginal...I will go to Japan in April though, so I would like to learn the basics until then  :grin: Japan is an amazing country and I would love to live there as well for some time. I have to admit I am a little bit jealous :=)

best wishes

Marcel