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I want to learn to speak Japanese 1 week ago

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



Untitled 4 weeks ago

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.



Public school 3 months ago

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…



Untitled 4 months ago

6 years and counting!



Was trying to use Twitter for capturing vocabulary 5 months ago

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


Untitled 6 months ago

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日本語を勉強する。 6 months ago

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.



Untitled 6 months ago

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



日本語 6 months ago

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. :)



Jake One kilogram at a time.

Well.. 6 months ago

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



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