I suppose I can only put this off for so long, so hello, everyone! I’m from Oregon (that state between California and Washington that no one’s ever heard of), and I’ve been interested in learning Japanese for a few years now. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any classes for it where I live, and the books I tried didn’t really ‘click’ with me.

As for why I’ve decided on learning Japanese… beyond a couple of obvious reasons – yes, I’m interested in anime and manga, but we’ve both agreed to keep our relationship strictly professional – I also enjoy seeking out things that are novel and exciting, and while I could be completely, dumbfoundingly mistaken in this, it seems like Japanese society contributes a significant amount to the world’s stockpile of novel concepts.

So yes, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to gain some amount of fluency in Japanese from this here TextFugu. Maybe even carry on a conversation with a three-year old, or read half of a paragraph from a newspaper or something. Honestly, I’ll be happy if I can make the language look like something besides an inscrutable jumble of moonrunes to me.

As an unrelated side note, I also intend to learn Russian. But I’ve decided to save wrestling the Cyrillic demon bear language until after I get some grasp of Japanese under my belt.

So yes. Again, hello everyone!

(Oh hey, you can add topics to favorites. Neat.

I’m Commander Silk, and this is my favorite topic on the Citadel!)