はじめまして。わたしはジェニー・リーです。アメリカじんです。ちゅうごくからきました。がくせいです。コロンビアだいがくのさんねんせいです。はたちです。どうぞよろしくおねがいしまう。 --- I'm studying Japanese for two main reasons. First, I chose Japanese as my language fulfillment for the Linguistics major at Columbia because students are not allowed to study Romantic, Germanic, or their native languages. I'm excited to learn about the grammatical structure and sociolinguistic aspects of the Japanese language (especially when it comes to polite and more colloquial versions of certain words or phrases). I'm also fascinated in the overlap between Chinese characters and Kanji in Japanese and want to explore the reasons why certain characters are shared between the two languages and why divergences occurred in the sounds of the respective languages. The second reason for my choice is that I've been interested in the Japanese language and in Japanese culture for many years. I became interested in anime at a young age and grew up drawing my favorite characters