Satchôtohi
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- 3 Feb 2006
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Hi everyone,
I'm from Bavaria in Germany. When I was 16 I started to learn Kung Fu, and thus came into contact with the Asian cultural sphere (my master is Thai). I discovered that Buddhist thought hold many answers to questions I had always asked but society couldn't answer.
Well, since I've also always had a knack for languages, I began teaching myself Japanese, and finally, after school, decided to make it my major. Japan was to become my "gateway to asia", and, as it turned out, to a deeper understanding of myself, what constitutes a self and the world around it.
I'm now a student of Japanology, my secondary subjects are German as a foreign language and general typological linguistics (formerly intercultural communication, but I switched once I had grasped the basics because the curriculum was lame). My areas of specialty are Japanese society, a bit of history, Languages That Hardly Anyone Speaks and of course my own language, its didactics and its many dialects (especially Bavarian).
I hope I will meet some nice people here and learn many interesting things.