I wanted to learn Japanese because of music. Over the years, pretty much a good percentage of all the music I listen to has Japanese in it. The remaining percentage being music in English, Hawaiian, or Korean, the Korean having seeped in because of my younger sisters. Because of this (and I really should have started sooner to be honest), I finally decided it was high time that I learned Japanese to understand what I was listening to on a lyrical level without subtitles. And another important reason is because I've been casually surrounded by it my entire life. I come from Hawai'i, and the Japanese language can be found everywhere in shops, restaurants, buildings, hotels, parties, and even in the household. The Japanese language is everywhere there, and some words in Hawaiian Creole English (or Pidgin), a creole language based in Hawai'i, originated from Japanese among many other Asian and Polynesian languages. So Japanese has been around me since the beginning, es...