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Hi guys,
Started Textfugu few weeks ago. Wasn’t sure if I would stick around, but I am and still loving it, so time to introduce myself.
I live in Brisbane, originally from ボスニア I love katakana :-) Also fell in love with Japan. Had a short visit in December 2015, and now always on the lookout for cheap flights to go over there even just for a weekend. My next trip (third) is in early May and I decided to be ready and embrace the culture even more by learning a few words.
Also hoping to meet any local native speakers or keen learners in the area to share ideas, learnings and practice together.
Cheers.
Jasenko
Welcome! I’m from Sydney, here. =)
Where have you visited in particular? And where are you planning to go in May?
You’re not going to find any native speakers here, unfortunately. Maybe try HiNative. https://hinative.com/
Thanks Joel…
We went to Tokyo a couple of times, once without the kids :-)
This time we are going to visit more places, taking shinkansen to Kyoto and Hiroshima… So lucky that Jetstar have specials all the time. Cheaper to fly to Tokyo for a weekend than spending it in Noosa :-)
I hope the Japanese studies will eventually come together and click into place. So far, I am getting all the stuff right from the Textfugu curricullum but feel like there will be years before I can confidently talk to someone. My saving grace is that Japanese sentence structure (verb at the end) is not too foreign to me as I studied German for years and can draw some similarities.
At the moment, I am happy that I nailed hiragana and katakana and at least could read some things and from time to time understand some of them.
Since you’ll be in the area, then, you should visit Himeji Castle and Miyajima. =)
Cool… We are actually staying overnight at Miyajima…
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