Sean Kerr - Elementary Japanese

 Below I have attached my favorite Japanese song. It is called 人として which, according to google translate, mean "as a person." It is a little too complex for me to understand all the way, but I think that it is a beautiful song. I have specifically attached the acoustic version. I first heard this song while at a Japanese bathhouse called a せんと. They had a T.V. with a singing show on, and I asked the Japanese students I was with who the band performing was. I later found the song and have listened to it since. I hope you enjoy it too.

 こんにちは！ This week for our blog post, we were tasked with watching some sort of Japanese media, preferable without subtitles. For this I watched Chibi Godzilla (ちびゴジラ) which is accessible through Toho's official youtube channel. I will link that episode I watched below, so you can check it out if you want.  For starters, I love Godzilla. Growing up, it was one of my favorite movie franchises. I was always fascinated by its practical special effects. I thought it was so cool that they built an entire miniature city for the actor in the monster suit to destroy. It always seemed so detailed. Through this love of Godzilla, I found Chibi Godizlla. It is an animated show made for children, so it's simpler than other forms of media. This is mostly why I chose it for this assignment. Unlike Godzilla, it's story revolves around comedy.   I specifically watched the first episode of the series for this assignment. I have seen it with subtitles several years ago, but this time I ...

 I am studying Japanese due to a general interest in the language. This interest was cultivated through out my life. Ever since I was little, I watched anime and read manga which gave me a superficial view of Japanese media. As I got older, I started to study the culture behind manga and anime but not the language. In my sophomore year at Notre Dame, I took Seeing Anime  with Professor Amanda Kennel. This class gave me a significantly more in depth view into Japanese culture and it effects on anime and manga. This made me want to study the language more but not enough to actually take a class in it. At the same time I was taking Seeing Anime , I got accepted into College of Engineering's Japan study abroad program. This allowed me to live and work in Kita-Kyushu and Tokyo. The experience of living in Japan is what made me decide to study Japanese in a formal classroom setting. It forced me to learn a basic level of the language, and I realized that I liked the language and wan...