Chatting in Japanese…with my dad?!
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...
New Morning Routine: Reading Baseball (?!) and Learning Japanese
I wrote about the NPB, Japan’s professional baseball league, a while back and it’s time to do it again. Why? Because I. Miss. It. So. Much. Every morning, the first thing I do after I wake up is hopping on Yahoo Japan’s SportsNavi to see which players were activated/deactivated...
It’s over…50 000?! Anime, kanji, and learning Japanese.
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...