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Another delay will set my plan back even further (I already had a year delay before I even applied, due to other circumstances). I’m not getting younger and the road to my end goal is long. (Becoming a translator) The delays and travel ban have been very stressful as each time it pushes back my timeline. Luckily the school I’ll be attending is doing everything they can to let us attend. They will be starting the term off with online classes, for those who are not able to enter yet. This however, means I’ll have to attend classes at 2am in the morning due to the time difference.

Ever since I was young I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture and after a two week home stay in highschool I knew I wanted to one day return to and live and work in Japan. To this end I went to college for a degree in Engineering for a technical high skilled degree. And now that I’ve finally graduated I’m hit with the curve ball of a lifetime and may not be able to follow my life long dream after over five years of waiting.

I had to study my master degree in japanese and thats why I need to learn japanese to be successfully admitted to graduate school. Im afraid i will fail the entrance exam as i didnt understand japanese well.

I am a big adherent of what was previously known as Mass Immersion Approach (and AJATT which serves as the basis for MIA). Its principles allow one to reach quite high proficiency level in foreign languages without going outside of your house. However, lately I have begun to realize that in order to really get the hold of your target language and know all the small societal as well as cultural nuiances in terms of words, one simply must be THERE. In my case, it is Japan. Japan is a very rich in culture country. While books and other media provide the rough image on how things work there, you never get the proper grasp of things and the language. I aim for the near-native level proficiency and being in Japan is a must for me.

Studying Japanese here in in Italy is impossible due to the lack of Japanese people to talk to. I want to to study in Japan not only to learn the language, but the use my talents and invest resources in a country where willing people have the means and possibilities to grow, in both their careers, and as people.

I will still continue to take on-line classes with huge stress and depression as we know how much we can get from online ..so its causing trouble and sense of inferiority and nothing else.

I am hoping I can integrate myself to the Japanese society by being immersed into their culture. I have noticed that through my intrinsic understanding of Japan through my experiences, people have commented that I could be mistaken as a Japanese, and I would be able to blend in almost perfectly to their society. I want to be able to use that to serve a better purpose. Because my focus for studying Japan was their language, and language is a main component in understanding culture, I want to connect with the Japanese people through stories. One way to do that is through manga, which is something I have been wanting to pursue for quite some time. I am not mainly interested in the otaku aspects of manga, although it was a major reason why I got into it, but rather how I can use manga to tell stories that pinpoints the psyche of the Japanese. But in order to achieve that, I must be able to be better at the language.

It is very inconvenient, as I don’t have any ground to make plans. If I knew when or if the travel ban will be lifted, I could plan around it. I will have to bet, whether I should give up my Plans to go to Japan and take a Plan B or if the ban will be lifted in time.

I currently have to get up at 2 am for my clases, which is both physically and mentally beyond exhausting, besides the huge financial loss for already paid accommodation etc., it also means a loss for my future as i cannot strive in the tasks i have mentioned above.

For all my classes in comparative law, which are very interactive, I can share the Swiss perspective and the Swiss legal rules. That’s interesting for both japanese students and law professors.