I am excited to start learning Japanese for the first time ever this year. I really love learning about other cultures and languages so I am really pumped for the class. I really want to go into diplomacy after college and I know that knowing another language would be extremely helpful. I decided Japanese would be good because it is a language I would not have any other chance to learn. Other languages, especially Romance languages, would probably be easier to come by later on, but Japanese would not be. Japanese is really interesting because it is based on such a completely different writing system than English. It also does not employ the complicated tonal system which Chinese uses, which I like. I also wanted to really challenge myself and I think that Japanese will really do so. I look forward to trying to meet that challenge as it comes. Japanese culture is also really fascinating to me in how it differs from Western culture, and I cannot wait to learn more about it.
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