Thanks for the welcome and the luck. I found I couldn’t afford purchasing translated manga. So I’ve stopped purchasing it ($10 per volume?..ick). My wife buys manga at used book stores when she goes to work in Japan, so I have a lot of manga that I cant read right now. And having a practice partner is nice, but also adds a little pressure when it is one’s wife. She really wants me to be able to understand Japanese too. Ah well, just means I need to work hard.