Hello everyone,

I’m Tyler, and I currently live in the beautiful state of Connecticut.

Today I am taking the first (of hopefully many more) steps to learning Japanese.

I’ve been living a rather apathetic life the past couple of years—just coasting through most days without much thought or care about anything really. I want to change this recently developed attitude of mine by taking on something big, and also kind of scary for me to be honest, as learning a language and proving to myself that I can accomplish it by putting in daily effort and work.

I chose Japanese because I—like many others :P—love Japanese pop culture and media: anime, music, manga, dramas, video games, you name it. I’m currently held back to only being able to watch, read, or listen to things that have been translated. I want to be able to experience all of these different forms of media that I enjoy so much in their native language.

Another reason I chose Japanese is actually because of this site. After going through some of the lessons in Season 1, I realized that I had finally found a way of learning another language that made sense to me. I’ve tried a couple of different programs before, and I’ve never felt like they’ve really clicked with me. TextFugu lays lessons out in a way that really helps me grasp on to the information and retain it in a way that most of the other programs I’ve tried failed at.

I don’t expect it’ll be easy or that I’ll become a Japanese speaking prodigy, but I do have a real drive and desire to see this goal of mine through to the very end.

I hope we all can help each other out as we go through this adventure together. ^_^

• This topic was modified 11 years, 10 months ago by  Tyler.