The Beginning
Hello, and welcome to my blog. I'm going to document how I study Japanese on this blog. My name is Kartik. I'm a third year student of BA Japanese at EFLU, Hyderabad. I have a physical disability known as cerebral palsy, which limits my mobility and restricts me to a wheelchair. As a result, I gravitated to hobbies such as anime and video games. I forget exactly how or when I discovered the term 'anime' but I can safely say that I have been watching Japanese animation for as long as I can remember. Shows like Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Mushishi, Spice and Wolf, Black Lagoon, and Kino's Journey are some of my all time favorites. Eventually, I wanted to understand anime without subtitles. This became one of the motivating factors for me to start learning Japanese. My first attempt at learning Japanese was way back in 2009. I enrolled for the certificate of proficiency in Japanese at EFLU. This was an introductory program that lasted for about a year. While this cou