Tag: japanese

I’ve already written quite a few times about my attempts to learn Japanese, but recently something extraordinary happened. I had my first (brief) conversation in Japanese with…MY DAD. Now, Romanian is our native language and we’ve always spoken it at home, barring a few random words/sentences in English or...

Since we’re still on the language topic, let’s talk a bit about my experience learning Japanese. Before meeting Kokoro, my only interactions with the language were through anime and video games. I still vividly remember playing Virtua Fighter 2 as a child and hearing the characters’ Japanese lines. My...

Kokoro and I decided to do something a little different for this week’s post. Since we’re always writing about our own thoughts, we thought we might have the other person take the spotlight instead. And so, we ‘interviewed’ each other about our experience learning the other’s language. Of course,...