I’m Esther, age 40. My husband and I are planning to go to Japan sometime in the next few years, so we’re starting (at point zero) to learn Japanese. Our 4 children will be learning along with us.

We’ll all be learning, but I’m the one most likely to post here.

We’re learning Japanese because we have a message for the Japanese people and we want to be able to speak it in Japanese, not in English.