Kelly E. from San Francisco, CA

I was born and raised in America. I speak fluent English. None of my relatives are Japanese. I did not learn it growing up, although I was exposed to German from an early age. I’ve been interested in Japanese since I was 9 (Sailor Moon, hello there), took it in high school as three extra independent courses (Japanese 1-3), went to Japan for two weeks when I was 17 (after two semesters of Japanese study) and proceeded to major in it in college.I’ve got about 11 semesters of Japanese under my be