"I am a fourth-year undergrad student with a major in Asian Studies/ Japanese. I believe that the key to language learning is finding yourself within the language. What I mean by this is to be as raw and expressive as possible, in order to form your own identity within the language. I first dabbled with the Japanese language when I was in my senior year of high school, it was nothing to brag about but I learnt hiragana and katakana during that time. After I graduated highschool, a lot of that"