I’m Chris. I lived in Japan, but spent my time there on the US Navy base and working on an MBA, so I never learned Japanese. I miss Japan and love having lived there, but I hate having to answer the question that people always ask once they learn I lived in Japan, “Do you speak Japanese?”

So…

I am learning Japanese because:
I want to pass the Level 5/4 Japanese Language Proficiency Test
I want to be able to have conversations in Japanese with other Japanese language meetups
I want to be able to read some books/magazines in Japanese
I want to take my fiance to Japan and be able to speak the language during that trip.
I want to be able to live and work at the Japanese Tokyo Friends House for a year or two.
I want to be able to tell people that I lived and worked in Japan without having to admit that I didn’t learn the language.