Tanita's Story

Tanita has always had an interest in anything related to Japanese.

Whether it is about the language, people, music or lifestyle.

This began when she started to watch Japanese dramas and listening to Japanese songs.

From there, she decided to learn Japanese on her own for a year before enrolling in a proper Japanese class. It has been 5 years since she began studying Japanese.

Tanita's goal is to master the Japanese language and to speak it fluently.

At the moment, Tanita can understand it more than she can speak it. She hopes that one day she can watch a Japanese drama without reading the subtitles or listen to a Japanese song and understand the meaning. She plans to go to Japan once she can speak it fluently so she is able to experience their culture and lifestyle.

Tanita hopes that one day she can be in a kimono just like her Japanese friend in the picture below.

Tanita is interested in their language because to her, it sounds polite and not as harsh if compared to others. It is easy to understand and the pronunciation is simple.

Tanita is also interested in their music because most of the singers that she likes acted in the Japanese dramas that she watched. Not only that, their music is different than some of the English songs she has listened to. However, this could be a bias perception.

Tanita aspires to be an English teacher in Japan.

She wants to teach in middle school or in high school. Therefore, Tanita looks up to her Japanese teacher currently because she is doing exactly what Tanita wants to do, only difference is she is teaching Japanese to English speaking students.

Tanita and her classmates with her Japanese teacher on the right.