What I Needed to Hear as a New Language Student

From the perspective of just having finished my first year of community college learning Japanese

Teena Merlan

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Photo by Anthony Nielsen

When I first started on this journey to learning the Japanese language, I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I was super eager and impatient to just be fluent already, and I did everything I possibly could to race to that…

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Teena Merlan

Expert in my lived experience. Truth teller. Self-changer. Lifelong learner. Explorer.