This Indian girl’s fluent Japanese is winning hearts online

From Uttarakhand to Japanese honours, Khushi Rawat blends mountain life with a love for language.

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00:00I'm in Uttarakhand.

00:04Hello, I'm Kushi.

00:06I'm here to see you again.

00:09I'm an Indian.

00:11Kushi Rawat's daily vlogs from Uttarakhand

00:13blend tradition with a Japanese twist.

00:15It took about 8 hours,

00:17and I finally arrived.

00:19To be honest,

00:21it's really difficult to climb the mountain.

00:24So how did she become so fluent in the language?

00:27When I was in school, I was learning German language,

00:30and this somehow developed an interest in me

00:33towards learning foreign languages.

00:41When COVID pandemic happened,

00:43I was in class 12,

00:45and I had to choose something for my higher studies.

00:50Right now, I'm pursuing my Japanese honors

00:53from a Delhi-based university.

00:57This is a tree!

00:59It's a tree!

01:00It's a tree!

01:01It's a tree!

01:02It's a tree!

01:04I'm glad it happened for me

01:05because every day,

01:07I'm learning something new.

01:09Not just about Japan,

01:10but also about my own country.

01:12Come on, Shimamura.

01:18I'm learning about their shared culture,

01:20shared history,

01:22and I'm becoming a Kushi

01:24that was different from yesterday.

01:26yesterday.