Why Study Japanese

Hello everyone,

Good Morning!

I am a junior at Columbia College majoring history and East Asian studies. I was born in Shanghai, China. Growing up, I loved to watch Japanese animate and read Japanese books. A part of me always wanted to learn the language. Since I am an East Asian major, I need to take one year of language which I immediately decided to learn Japanese.

I love the class and Nishida Sensei. I found the class very interesting and I already learned a lot. The most challenge part of the class would be converting romaji words into hiragana which I need to use a lot of time to think over before I can understand it. Certainly, I need to practice more and, hopefully, soon I can read hiragana smoothly.

Totoro is my favorite cartoon character. 

Sincerely
Helen Zhang

Helen's Self Introduction

はじめまして。
わだしはヘレンです。ちゅうごくのしゃんはいからきました。コロンビアだいがくのさんねんせいです。とうきょうだいがくのこおかんりゅがくせいです。にじゅういっさいです。ゴルフをします。わたしはまいにちごごじゅうじからごぜんしちじまでねます。でんわばんごうはろくにろくのろくななさんのはちろくはちいちです。
どうぞよるしくおねいがいします。