I think her curriculum is too slow. I’m actually surprised by the speed that they teach at my university and if I’m not careful, I’ll be surpassed.

I make it a point that I don’t use any characters/words I don’t understand because I feel like I would be cheating myself (and the others who read it).

It’s alright to make mistakes especially on lang-8 since you will be told the correct thing to say. An example is present if you take a look at Mark’s recent lang-8 journal ( http://lang-8.com/295072/journals/1154182/ ) when he use 援助 incorrectly. In fact, I only use lang-8 nowadays just to see the correct way of saying something ( http://lang-8.com/123987/journals/1105679/ ). Also japanese friends help too.

Like I said earlier, 「のるかそるか」

日本語の曲を調べるない – hope that came out right :d　(>_
ちんぷんかんぷんだ。

俺にとっては日本語を習うこととは常に真剣勝負。負けることは許されない・・・！

It may sound brash, but I’m being completely honest.

You say that you do not like how it looks. If you do not like how it looks, tough baloney. That is why I’m saying 「乞食は選り好みできない」 because it sounds like you are choosing not to use it based on how it looks。There are many other sites like lang-8 but lang-8 is the most well known one. Using lang-8 gives people a proper mindset to give you corrections which you will most certainly get so unless you establish good friends on facebook and twitter, no one will care what you write. I write stuff in Japanese all the time on facebook and no one cares half the time about what I write and I barely use twitter. So lang-8 = friendly community ; facebook and twitter = usable only if you have good friends but even then, less reliable

It would be better if you started learning the kanji along with the hiragana and definition. Really, the whole “I’ll wait till I’m good” mentality puts me down. Because exactly when are you going to get good? You might as well dive head first into it and get used to it now, than being 3 months into your learning and finally seeing that にほんご is actually 日本語 or realizing that 感じ　and 漢字 is the same pronunciation but different meaning.

How are people supposed to know that you aren’t learning kanji yet? Real Japanese doesn’t consist of only hiragana so of course it is only natural that native japanese person will insert the kanji where they need to be. You say it like its a bad thing, “ughhh they put kanji in again, why can’t you just leave it in hiragana”. The way I see it, the less you use kanji, the more and more it is the same as lying to yourself. It’s great that you aren’t using romaji because you already know how the roman alphabet works. But once you know hiragana and katakana, you just have to move on. I don’t know what kinds of problem you might have with kanji or if you are learning at your own pace, but I highly suggest you start learning kanji immediately. I’m sorry that I completely disagreed with what you said but I would have done the same thing too if I were a Japanese person. I am also sorry if I’m being too straightforward because I really have no reason to sugarcoat things and say things like “oh poor you, the native japanese person didn’t go easy on you because you’re a beginner.” That is what I mean when I say 「この世はそんなに甘くない」

I’m sure the internet is big enough for you to see the difference between what I’m saying and what real trolling is like. If I really wanted to troll you, I would be saying stuff like “your japanese probably sucks and thats why you can’t use lang-8″.

But, if you really never want to come back again, that’s fine too. It’s a huge shame though, there are many people willing to help you here.
This is for you: http://tinyurl.com/3sq2695

hi iggy. im filipino chinese too but undergrad as pre farmacy

i see.

why dont you follow my facebook?
here at http://www.facebook.com/missingno15

really all i can say to that is 乞食は選り好みできない　and　 この世はそんなに甘くない。

I don’t know but maybe these dudes do. Totally understandable btw cause theres NO SEARCH FUNCTION OR SOMETHING
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/the-i-found-some-japanese-i-dont-understand-thread/page/4/#post-18940

真面目　（まじめ）
（名詞）（ナ形容詞）

Diligent, serious, honest, sober, grave, earnest, steady.

日本語能力試験レベル：２

source: http://tinyurl.com/5suluo5

so a second year Japanese student responded to me saying にほんご を べんきょう します……….

woot classic mistake

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if you’re gonna go for yesasia, i applaud you for taking the option of waiting an entire month for your order to arrive

i listen to music depending on how im feeling.

for example if im being time pressured, i will go with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46nzJNUN4

if im in the zone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcA5OB8x7fc

or if need to get stoned on music
*insert nujabes music here*

for general music listening purposes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VX6_mRABs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzPfuiW7HH8

etc etc

you can also try 小林 香織 if you want lyric-less music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsFNBfr-v8

I could easily tell you straight out what it is

But that would be mad boring for both for us
http://tinyurl.com/3ekosp5