be fluent in Japanese

Japanese culture has always been near me, now its time to finish the puzzle, possibly the hardest puzzle ever.

I’m taking Japanese in school, and it just got SO much harder, but I want to be bilingual(then tri-, 4, 5, 6 all the way to 9 languages! xP) and so I must watch Japanese drama, and listen to music and study more.

I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, but it’s only about three hours a week and entirely in school. I want to visit Japan (not to mention many other places) and teach English as a second language. I’m hoping to buy (download >__>) Rosetta Stone and take Japanese at the community college after I graduate.

Studying those dozens of books I have might help as well…

6 years and counting!

but I haven’t found a good way to search Twitter for the Japanese words, so I’ve resorted to using Google Reader to capture feeds. Since Twitter requires authenticated feeds and Google Reader does not, I then had to resort to using http://www.freemyfeed.com. However, I recently changed my Twitter password which means my old feed (with the old password) is not usable anymore and I had to create a new feed from http://www.freemyfeed.com. The end result is the I’ve lost the vocabulary words I had in Google reader before the password change. I’ll log them here just so that I won’t lose them:

• 坊主になる　（ぼうずになる）　shaves one’s head, literally become a monk
• (tongue-twister) 坊主が屏風に上手に坊主の絵を描いた。（ぼうずがびょうぶにじょうずにぼうずのえをかいた。)
• 悪夢　（あくむ）　bad dream

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I’ve wanted to learn Japanese for so long. I started learning two years ago, and though it’s fun to learn, it isn’t easy.

I want to visit Japan and speak fluently.I want to read fluently. I want to be able to read a Japanese newspaper, and breeze through the kanji, katakana and hiragana. I want to go to Japan, and speak so fluently that I can participate in conversations about the most random things.

It’s such a fascinating language. So beautiful, so complex.

Sometimes, I can’t even imagine becoming fluent in it. I can’t see myself being able to speak and understand as if it were my native language.

Still, I’ll try. I’ll study and immerse myself in it, and see how far I can go.

I haven’t studied in almost two months. I shudder to think of what I have forgotten.

Japanese for busy people and Genki are both textbooks that I highly recommend. I learned Hiragana first, and then katakana (reluctantly), and now I’m learning kanji. Kanji is… difficult.

And the grammar! shakes head

Still, it’s fun.

Finish the Assimil Methode, learn 5 new Kanjis a day, like Destiny above.

I took Japanese for two years in high school and did really well. Sadly though, since I graduated from HS last year, I haven’t thought about Japanese once. I planned on taking Japanese two in college during my first semester but I was too worried I forgot so much that I’d fail and wouldn’t pass the entrance exam. So basically, I didn’t believe in myself and I have forgotten SO much. Just recently though, my BF bought me some really amazing Japanese books that I can self-study with and relearn everything!

So basically, starting this winter break or next semester, I’m going to get caught back up to what I used to know and get into Intermediate Japanese 1 next year! That’s my goal. :)

I’ve been learning Japanese for two years at school.
But I had to pick Japanese class to continue studying it.
(I only could pick 2 classes; and I LOVE IST[Information, software Technology] too much, and Commerce sounds pretty interesting)
But I am pretty good at Japanese. :)
Although I want to be fluent in Japanese!
BTW I love Japanese Movies!
Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away are the two I’ve seen..
(Plus 2 others, but I forget the Names of them!) lol