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Hi, my name is Tamara and I am a vegan cook living in Melbourne, Australia :)
I have had an obsession with Japan as long as I can remember. I won’t bore you with the daily details of my life that are based around this love, but will say Japanese culture is a constant inspiration to me, and source of comfort.
I am learning Japanese for a number of reasons:
I would like to appreciate the books, films, etc that I love in their original language, rather than translated.
I plan to live in Japan someday.
It would be a useful tool for my particular activism, through my work for Sea Shepherd, being able to translate would be extremely helpful in creating better communication between the Japanese people and our organisation.
So, yep. Would love to hear from other people here – I haven’t started yet so I wouldn’t have any tips or advice or anything as of yet, but would welcome any from those more experienced in the language!
:)
Welcome! I’m in Sydney, here. =)
Welcome to TextFugu!
Is Sea Shepherd something that has to do with the whaling industry?
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Is Sea Shepherd something that has to do with the whaling industry?
Welcome, Tamara!
Your reasons for learning japanese sound very inspiring, I wish you all the best for this linguistic voyage.
I’m a newbie myself (mid-Season 2 right now) but I can highly recommend Aikibujin’s guide for setting up Anki (linked above) and also to basically immerse yourself in Japanese content as much as possible while working your way through TextFugu.
I, for example, am watching a lot of Anime recently which obviously have English subtitles, but instead of just reading those I try to recognize as much as possible in what is being spoken. Often it’s just a single word, sometimes a partial sentence, but this creates a very strong motivational effect for me. I feel like I am actually starting to learn the language. I also frequently visit Japanese websites and just try to read anything I can. I try to recognize as many Kanji as possible and attempt to guess what e.g. a link leads to before clicking on it.
It’s a really rewarding experience which motivates me greatly to learn on.Maybe this is a personal quirk of mine but it might help you too. Augment the learning material TextFugu provides with the films and books you like and just try to really “get in there” :)
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Is Sea Shepherd something that has to do with the whaling industry?Yeah that’s exactly what I thought it was.
A Melbourne person! Hello!
As a learning tip from someone who is also in the midst of season 2 (and who also studied Japanese in high school), listening to anything Japanese – music, conversations, tv, films, youtube clips – help. Also kanji is really important, so get into those early.
Your activisim work sounds interesting – the recent International court ruling must have made you happy!
Welcome!
I too am a newbie to Textfugu – hope to meet more people in the forums as well!Jennifer
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