Why Japanese?
My name is Renyang Gao and I'm a freshman at Notre Dame. I decided to take Elementary Japanese I mainly because of my interests in manga and animes. I'm excited that one day I might be able to read my favorite manga and watch anime without the help of subtitles. I'm also looking forward to learning about Japanese culture in this class.
Hi Renyang. Hopefully you had a great first semester as a freshman. Being a junior I am constantly thinking about the past two and a half years at ND that have gone by so quickly and I'm always jealous of incoming freshmen classes who have a full four years ahead of them.
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