So?
Do you/will you/would you like to Study japanese?
If so, come and discuss all of your knowledge/experience here! Or, if you have no experience and are considering starting to learn Japanese, questions are always welcome

Well, go ahead!

I took a first level Japanese class at my local “Japan America Society” building about 2 years ago.
I learned all my Hiragana & Katakana, only to forget it all because of "0" practice... Things got really busy for me so I didn't have time to keep at it. Now I am back at square one where I know most of my Hiragana and some of the Katakana. I'm in college right now and trying to hold down a job so, yeah its challenging to keep at it BUT I WILL!! lol..
My plan is that I'll practice on my own for now and once I finish with school ( which is a few courses away now), I'll take a Japanese class at my local collage and then take the proficiency test for it(cant remember what its called).

I can watch Japanese movies or anime and understand part of what is going on but subtitles do most of the translating for me. I would love to translate manga like the wonderful people who get the manga on this site up for us to read & I want to return the favor someday.

Ah, I'm taking Japanese 12 at the moment, but it's all just grammar, writing and stuff, so it's not very helpful if I got stranded in Japan.. I might die with my knowledge

Lol, Momogiri.
Well, I've been unable to find a class around here, but my university has them so I'll be starting in the spring (hopefully).

I've practiced hiragana+katakana, and for hardly using them I know them pretty quick off the top of my head. One thing I like is to look at websites in Japanese. The best way I've found (if using winXP) is to just install the Eastern language support. Then all browsers and the filesystem will show the Japanese UTF characters.

I thought that learning 2000+ kanji seems really difficult, but I saw a layout of the 7 Jouyou (i think its the name) and it doesn't look as intimidating when they are all together.

There is this aweseom site for all languages; it doesn't really teach them, but it explains approaches to learning and the difficulties. I lost the link
Well here are some others. Language Resources

Tutorials on the net don't seem that bad, because most standard stuff can be learned that way, but I feel speaking experienced and hard studying is necessary if you want to excel.
Is anyone interested in the teaching program in Japan?

i want to learn japanese....
back in yr 8 i showed no interest and my greatest score in a test was 2 out of 20

yeah its challenging to keep at it BUT I WILL!! lol..
Go for it Tonks

I'm taking Japanese 12 at the moment, but it's all just grammar, writing and stuff, so it's not very helpful if I got stranded in Japan..
It mightn't be very helpful now....but you know it takes time learning languages and I believe that in some time it will be useful. At least for the sole point of speaking properly

Well here are some others. Language Resources

Thanks for the site, looks promising ^^

i want to learn japanese....
Well....why don't you? it's not all as difficult as it seems, the grammar is actually easy enough



Ummmmm well me, I've been learning for 2 years, know most of the basic grammar, about 250 kanji and my teacher says I'm good at listening
Overall I'm pleased and really enjoying it

Lol about a week ago I watched Final Fantasy - Advent Children in Japanese without subs....the funny thing is I understood quite enough to grasp what it was all about