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How do you do! My name is Trey Staz, also known as Kit. Twenty-One years old and easily distracted, I'm an Oregonian by birth, a New Jersey resident, and I currently live in New York City. I'm studying Japanese because I am a masochist with an interest in fiscal policy. Japan represents an interesting case study for a nation with a plausible reason to oppose unilateral free trade as a matter of sovereignty, which I think is a very interesting concept. I'd love to discuss this with somebody, but I think I might be the only person who cares about stuff like that. I'm a bit of a geek, but not enough of a geek to learn Japanese because I like their media exports. I was waffling between Japanese and Ancient Greek or Linear B; Japanese seems a lot more marketable, in that regard.

Japanese vis-a-vis learning it has been a fun experience. I feel like my comprehension is still fairly low, but I try to practice a few hours a day and annoy my friends and loved ones with butchered Japanenglish slang. I guess it's working, but it's still very early in the four-semester process. If I'm lucky, I'll be passably conversational before 2022.

Thanks for your time, dear reader, and I'm excited to speak to you again soon.

P.S. If you know where my url comes from, you get ten bonus points.

This is a Blog Written by a First-Year Japanese Student

はじめまして。わたしはトレイ・スタスキャビッチです。 にじゅいっさいです。アメリカのオレゴンからきました。 わたしはコロンビアだいがくのさんねんせいです。 どうぞよろしくおねがいします。