I am starting to learn Japanese because I am an East Asian Studies major. I am specializing in Korean history, so I have been learning Korean for almost four years. I am starting to take Japanese classes now because I want to focus on the colonial period in Korean history, so many documents I will need to read will be in Japanese. So far, Japanese is very hard and I am pretty bad at Hiragana, so I think learning kanji will be a real challenge. But I am ready to study hard and improve my Japanese!