Learn Japanese

The class was not taught at a good time for me. I think that I might have to reconsider this goal and focus on more important ones..

So, me and my fiance got Rosetta Stone and we are both learning Japanese at the moment. After a little practice, I got a 100% in the first exercise in just over 3 minutes. I’m pretty excited about this, but I have to do research on how much time I should spend each day learning this stuff.

daisuki dakara zutto
(because I love you)

nannimo shinpai iranaiwa
(you don’t have to worry about anything)

my darling, stay gold
(my darling, stay gold)

mujakini waratte kudasaina
(please smile innocently)

itsumademo…
(forever…)

anata no hitomi no oku ni hisomu shounenn
(the young boy hidden deep within your eyes)

watashi no honnou kusugutte yamanai
(continues to entice my instincts)

aah douka sonomama
(aah somehow, let it continue)

good luck.
(good luck)

kanashii koto ha kitto
(there will most likely continue to be)

konosakinimo ippai aruwa
(sad things ahead of us)

my darling, stay gold
(my darling, stay gold)

kizutsuku koto mo daijidakara
(because even getting hurt is important)

daisuki dakara zutto
(because I love you)

nannimo shinpai iranaiwa
(you don’t have to worry about anything)

my darling, stay gold
(my darling, stay gold)

mujakini waratte kudasaina
(please smile innocently)

itsumademo…
(forever…)

shuushoku mo kimatte
(figured out a job)

asondebakari irarenaine
(we can’t continue playing around forever)

otona no joushiki ya chie mi ni tsukeru no mo ii
(sometimes it’s good to learn adult intelligence and common sense)

aah kyou ha konomama
(ahh tonight, let’s just say)

good night
(good night)

kawariyuku no ga
(they say change is)

hito no kokoro no tsune dato iimasuga
(a fundamental part of the human heart)

ne daarin your soul
(but darling, your soul)

yasashiku kagayaki tsuzukeruwa
(Will continue to shine kindly)

daisuki dakara zutto
(because I love you)

nannimo shinpai iranaiwa
(you don’t have to worry about anything)

my darling, stay gold
(my darling, stay gold)

mujakini waratte kudasaina
(please smile innocently)

itsumademo…
(forever…)

daisuki dakara zutto
(because I love you)

nannimo shinpai iranaiwa
(you don’t have to worry about anything)

my darling, stay gold
(my darling, stay gold)

mujakini waratte iraretara
(if I can keep smiling innocently)

otsunohimo…
(each and every day…) (less)

I rummage through the kitchen like a, well, like a rat under paper. I found this…Japanese thing given to me as a gift. Time to eat it, I said.
It’s in a plastic packet. The picture shows it on top of rice. Otherwise, there’s nothing I can figure out.
It is salty, dry, shredded, maybe meat? maybe not? – with sesame seeds. I like it. It’s tasty! Salt is key! But I can’t quite say what it is.

Lol, this sounds kinda dumb, but I have been pretty much studying Japanese on and off since I was ten. I started because my fifth-grade teacher taught our class some Kanji to enrich us culturally. It was kind of a Japan week, like she taught us how to use chopsticks and gave us ink and brushes and taught us simple characters like mouth, man, tree and mountain. She learned that stuff because she had taught really little kids in Japan, I’m not sure why. She was probably an English teacher, like most foreigners, haha.
But anyway, you would think that my Japanese is amazing, but not really. It has been very on and off so I learn a lot and then forget a lot, but the knowledge always comes back when I hear people speak Japanese to each other. So I realized last week that my Kana had become very rusty so I have been practicing it all over again. The thing is that I can remember the characters so I can read them, but then when I go to write them I forget the stroke order and stuff, so I have to relearn them all.
Also I had learned a lot of Kanji with the Chinese and Japanese readings and everything, but I have basically forgotten those, too.
Go me! :D Not. Lol.
But in this post I might as well recommend Pimsleur to anyone here trying to learn the language, it really makes the phrases stick to your brain. I did Pimsleur two years ago and I still remember what it taught me. It’s a very good program.
When I go to college next year I plan to eventually go and study abroad in Japan and take classes, so I can finally be immersed in the language and become fluent. And if any hoes come up to me and start saying racist shit like, “Your Japaneze es beri weirdu,” I’ll be like SO IS YOUR ENGLISH HOE. Hahaha jk.

why do i really want to learn japanese and what will i do with this acquired knowledge?

i find anime interesting and fun to watch for leisure. i have seen quite a large amount, along with a majority of the most innovative stories. this exposure has raised my expectations of quality anime to the point that the average series is nothing but a bore.

manga is an oddity to me, i love reading and i am a visual thinker but i have difficulty pulling enjoyment from reading them. it is as if manga is stuck in limbo between a strictly textual novel and a completely visual story.

i may enjoy japanese literature but without comprehension of kanji it makes the task an improbability.

the above is the typical reason why people want to learn japanese, but my motives are different. i most basically want to travel and experience ways that are different then those that i am surrounded by everyday. this includes attempting to understand different people, different cultures and different ways of thought, but those are tertiary reasons.

i want to learn japanese so i can study graphic design in osaka. but what does it matter if i study there or i study here? graphic design follows similar fundamental rules, if it doesn’t then it is something else. these i can learn any place, design is now a global profession.

although, what i may learn are rules that are specific to japanese communication, but will i be designing for japanese consumption?

i may learn style that is popular in japan, but styles are arbitrary, they come and go.

in the end it comes to this, how will i capitalize upon the time and effort i put fourth to learn this language? what will i do with it and what will it do for me? because if you don’t use it, you loose it.

I took french for 4 years and i still dont know how to count to ten. Its pathetic but i hope its only b/c i was forced to learn it by the demon hell spawn that is SCHOOL. I mean i can count to 20 in japanese and that only took a few hours to learn/memorize! But i have put learning Japanese on hold for a while b/c ALOT of other things are definitely a bigger priority. But maybe by my senior year it will pop into my head again. I want to learn it b/c i find it amazing, and it will help to know it when i make my dream trip to Tokyo someday.

It’s a beautiful language and I could listen to it for hours. I’ve been told that I was Japanese in a past life so maybe that’s why….

... a few things already.

I’ve completed
4 lessons from renshuu.org
6 Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar entries,
8 short articles from “Nihon no Dekigoto” column on coscom.co.jp site

it’s going quite well! :D