Hey everyone!

My name is Francisco, I’m 24. (cliche incoming) I was introduced to anime by the age of 14 and since I have been developing a fondness for japanese language, but certainly not enough to even try to learn it. Fast forward 10 years, during a bussiness trip to Israel I meet a kind lady that greets me in spanish (my first language) and holds a complex conversation with me in that language. With a bit of an accent, she seemed to be colombian, and just to prove my accent-identifying powers I ask her if she is. She’s not. That woman has never set foot outside Israel. “You must have taken some spanish courses then”. She hadn’t. As it turns she and her sister grew up watching subtitled mexican soap operas, and from there they learned one of the most irregular languages I have come across.

Needless to say, first thing as I got home, I started learning japanese. That was about a month ago. Using free resources from the internet I figured I needed to learn Hiragana, so I did. then Katakana, so I did. I tried to start reading some webpages but still couldn figure out anything because of kanji. I started learning kanji, and I was like: “lol… no”.  Trying to find a better way, I stumbled across  TextFugu, and here I am.

For the time being I’ll be a n00b, but given sometime I hope I can help future n00bs.

Edit:

Why am I learning japanese?

-Payback years worth of fansubs by joining a group as a translator.
-Read Fujumi Ono and Nisio Isin novels in their original language (and on release, not a decade after, when someone kindly took the time to translate it)
-With spanish and english I already have ~60% of the internet content available. Japanese will open up 5% more.
-I’ll be watching anime anyways so I might as well.

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