Although I am not Japanese, Japanese is a very meaningful language to me. My grandfather studied at a Japanese University for college, so he would always use both Korean and Japanese when talking to my mother. By learning Japanese, I hope to somewhat converse with my grandfather and mother in Japanese, and be able to talk to people when my family goes on a trip to Japan. So far in class, we learned a lot of important lessons, such as basic greetings, time, and asking where places/objects are. From my trips to Japan, I found these to be important survival questions that I need to know, and am glad that we are learning them. The only hard part is that Japanese sentence structures differ from English structures, but I think I am making progress in that area :)