One of the reasons why I haven't been quite as active in the mer-community as I once was is I have found a potential career path and passion in life. Over the past couple years, I have been diligently studying the Japanese language. I now can read hiragana/katakana, can recognize almost 1,000 kanji, and know at least 5,000 vocabulary words. I prefer to practice my reading comprehension by reading in Japanese whenever I can, I own several Japanese children's books and untranslated manga and I check out books in Japanese from my local library system, I can now read at an upper elementary or junior high level fairly well. In December, I will take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the University of Washington, so wish me luck, mer-friends! I hope to get my proficiency certificate and eventually work from home/telecommute as a professional Japanese-to-English translator for manga, novels, etc. I already translate manga and Japanese children's books into English as a hobby and practice. I kinda feel like I finally found my "calling", as it's something I'm actually good at(having an above-average memory comes in handy for studying a language!), genuinely enjoy, and working from home being a translator requires minimal social skills
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