I feel like I'm losing half of my culture? What do i do?

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I'm half Japanese, half New Zealand European. I live in NZ now, and slowly, my Japanese has become worse. I can speak Japanese, but to an extent. I've tried studying, but I always have other things to do, and my mum never really helps me with my Japanese. I've been begging them to let me go to Japan as an exchange student, and they said, ok we'll see about that. Now they're saying no, it''ll interrupt your studying and NCEA (I'm in year 11 now). They said maybe we could all go as a family when I'm in year 13 but i DON'T want to go as a family, I want to go in year 12 by MYSELF and get fluent at Japanese, the sooner the better. but they don't seem to understand. I feel like I'm losing touch with my Japanese side.. I cried buckets last night because of that.. (i know, pathetic)
 
if one side of your family is Japanese, then cant you stay with a cousin or aunt or grandma in Japan?
beg them if you can study in japan while living with a cousin.that will take care of your parents having to pay rent,or just wait and ask them when you finish highschool if you can study in japan , 11 is only 1 year to go no? tell them its good to know many languages opens opportunity for your future

btw Delinquent , your japanese sounds horrible and you have a misspelling
 
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