be fluent in Japanese

It’s a shame that I am a native and it’s my first language, and I still can’t fluently talk to a Japanese person (other than my mom) without thinking that I’m saying something incorrectly.

gonna be travelling alone to Tokyo this month., hopefully it would help. NEED TO REVISE!

I posted my first spoken Japanese video on YouTube. Scary stuff.

I think it’s full of errors, but I did it!

I started to study Hiragana a few months ago, but then I got so busy and I just quit studying. but now that my brother moved to Japan and I’m planning to visit him this winter, I think I really should learn japanese. I’ll study hard until I go to japan this winter!

i am learning GCSE Japanese, exam in like 8 months :S

I have a Japanese reader which I picked up many many years ago and have always read a little then put it back on the shelf due to the amount of time it takes to look up each Kanji.

Well, last night, I picked it up and saw 午前五時半、 and immediately understood “5:30am”. That’s a row of FIVE kanji, previously a massively intimidating prospect… but with the amount of study I’ve done, it was easy.

I think it’s getting there.

I started my GCSE course last week – an interesting mix… one chap I did year two with a few years back, someone who lived in Japan 10 years ago, and a couple of complete beginners amongst the 12 or so on the course.

I think I’ll struggle to attain a GCSE in only 60 hours of teaching, so I can’t begin to think how hard it’ll be for the new starters.

Earlier today, I watched Spirited Away in Japanese with no subtitles. Picked up a little of the language, but most of it was too quick, mumbled or slangy.

The local college is offering a GCSE course in Japanese. I shall take it!

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…