Yeah you could go on lang-8 and ask them if you can help with your keigo…
I haven’t got around to learning keigo yet, but it doesn’t sound very exciting lol.

I don’t remember how I became interested in Japanese culture. I just remember always liking it as a child and being so interested in it. Then a long time ago, because my family traveled a lot, I convinced them to take us to Japan.
We stayed in Asakusa Japan, really close to the market.
Long story short, best experience of my life, more than I expected, made me love Japanese culture even more. So then I started to learn Japanese.
I plan to study abroad in Japan for my senior year, maybe graduate early to go. I want to find a career in Japan too.
(I could do a lot of details, but I didn’t want to write a novel XD)
Edit: I’m pretty sure it was a lot to do with video games and when I was able to use the internet freely it just interested me more from such a young age, I don’t remember specificly.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 7 months ago by  Noah.

Awesome thread, I have traveled to Japan.
I was always interested in Japanese culture, then when I went to Japan, it was everything I expected and more! So that is when I decided “I must learn Japanese *hero stance*” Which led me here to Textfugu:D because I had always watched Tofugu and thought I would give it a try.
The people in Japan, you have most likely heard this, are very nice. I didn’t meet one mean person there, even if they didn’t like me and my family, they were still very, very nice. I stayed in Asakusa, literally 30 steps away from the market. It was beautiful waking up in the morning around 7AM, (jet lag) and going outside to feel the nice warm air and to see how extremely quiet it was for such a big city. The thing that surprised me most was how we only saw one group of elderly people out that early! Then when we went to the Starbucks, we actually had to wait for it to open! I found this hiliarious because in the US if you can’t get your Starbucks at 5AM, for some people, that is an outrage.
I got to see the famous city, nicknamed “Electric Town” I forgot its real name but it started with an A. That was pretty awesome, it was interesting to see people actually looking at buying hentai figures ._.
We saw all around Tokyo and went up to places like Kamakura and saw its famous Buddah and stuff like that. Another note worth thing was going up some mountain, I remember, and getting to eat Black (hardboiled) eggs, the myth is that they prolong your life for 10 years. The best part was some really nice Japanese guy came over to me and just gave me his last one! I said arigatou many times :). It was really nice of him. It was awesome too because we came at a luck day where we could actually see Mt. Fuji almost perfectly!
A funny thing too was on a menu board in English for coffee instead of “Blend Coffee” it said “Brend Coffee” just so you would say it like that so they would be able to understand you XD sterotypes much? I also had some really good Curry, Kobe beef, Tempura, Sushi bar, SOBA(so, so so good) and I even tried a tempura bean paste snack, it was actually really good!
AS FOR PHONES IN JAPAN:
We had iPhones on AT&T, once you get there it will most likely connect to SOFT BANK automatically, but if you don’t have a plan with AT&T of course you will get charged. You can rent a phone if you want to, but you can also just pay for international plans, BTW Japan’s Phone signals are more advanced than ours (or at least that is what they told us) so iPhone 4′s are one of the only phones that can actually work there internationally. It’s like going to Germany or Europe where your iPhone connects to Vodaphone (been there too, many places in Europe, Japan is best.)