Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo
I am learning Japanese because my wife is Japanese, I live in Japan, I like learning languages in general and it will help me find another job that teacher in the future. Maybe also because I am very interested in foreign cultures (for the moment the Japanese one of course) and there is no better way to understand the mentality of a people than through its language.
Wow, that's almost exactly like me...except the whole wife scenario and I don't live in Japan either...OK, maybe not exactly! Demo (ooo, some really basic romanized Japanese!) I too love to learn about other cultures. I paticularly want to see the Harajuku area (for the fashion, obviously ) and see the Tanatabata(sp?) festival - the story's so sad! But I love the idea of celebrating creativity (something rather lacking where I live, I feel).