i've started learning japanese since 2020. six years, i suppose, but i wouldn't consider myself skillful at it. as i wasn't taking any classes and was my own teacher, my progress is slow. as i recently checked my level is barely even n5. possibly because i'm learning it inconsistently. i can construct simple sentences and visually understand japanese text sometimes, but i'm far from speaking it freely. in fact, i think i only appear skillful because of my household.
my father dreams of life in yixing and thinks it was his home in previous life. over years he collected various traditional items such as chinese brushes, ink, tools for hand-molding clay teapots, a feng shui compass, japanese knives... we have father's ink rice paper paintings around the apartment, he cooks asian food and we eat it with sticks, we have 葫芦 (hulu) hung on windows… he wrote his name in сhinese characters on red paper and hung it in the kitchen, he studied feng shui and bazi, he refers to the past periods in his life historically as the "ming dynasty." since he makes teapots, he often buys different fine varieties of tea, such as oolong and da hong pao. i think this began around the time he visited sakhalin. (the place where ainu people are from, a native minority that existed hundreds of years before modern japanese people, if ykyk...), so it's all connected.
some of my other relatives had been to japan and already know the language. so i may be a little lazy at learning, but i'm surely sarrounded by asian culture and people who are ready to teach me. i'm learning slow, but i'm always reminded that i must study. i just always find new stuff around the house when i walk around. i think it explains a lot. my own interest in the language is taught to me from childhood, so i'm just naturally centering my art and online presence around it.
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