わたし

はじめまして、わたしはまさむねです。
アメリカのオレゴンジンです。
コロンビアだいがくのがくせいです。
わたしはよねんせいです。
にじゅうさんさいです。
こちらこそよろしく。

I'm taking Japanese this year because I've always liked various Japanese cultures. As a child, I enjoyed playing video games (and still do) and watching Japanese animation. I also read many mangas of different genres. In short, I very much appreciate many things Japanese, and wish to further my understanding of the country and its customs and cultures.

I'm excited about learning kanji, because it's based off of Chinese and it'd be nice to see the workings of my own cultures within the Japanese culture.
So far, I'm finding memorizing hiragana a bit difficult. I cannot manage to recognize a hiragana symbol in an instant's notice, and require some amount of time to remember the symbol's pronunciation.