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I’m reading ‘Monster’ and ‘Ganz’ at the moment. Although these are the English versions ‘Monster’ has helped with katakana, as the sound effects have been kept in Japanese.
Am waiting for the rest of the manga ‘No longer human’ to come out – read the first one and loved it.
This is the best thread ever.
That’s quite a tale!
And for me…when I was a young kid I got the idea into my head that learning a language would be the coolest thing ever. I was also interested in all things European, so I was tossing up between German, French or Italian.
So I went to the parents and told them I want to go learn a language, and they said “Great! Would you like to learn Chinese or Japanese?”. Their logic being living in Australia & Asia being the future etc etc, it’d be better for my future to learn an Asian language.So, I didn’t feel I could back out on this learning a language thing I’d shown so much enthusiasm for, yet had no enthusiasm for an Asian language. Reluctantly I picked Japanese.
I went along and hated it, it was a chore. Yet despite doing pretty well at it I couldn’t wait to get out of it, so I gave it up.
Years passed and I slowly got interested in and really sucked into Japanese culture – “damn I shouldn’t have given that up, Japan is cool!”.
I finally planned to go to Japan for a holiday, and learnt as much ‘survival’ Japanese as I could in a short time. I was absolutely packing myself about speaking it and surviving on it.
Yet, when I got there I was surprised that I was able to get by without resorting to English and a lot of pointing. So, upon returning home after having experienced Japanese and got some enthusiasm from my successes I thought, yeah, I should get back into Japanese and learn it properly.So here I am.
good luck!
You’ll enjoy all the food in Japan – and need a lot of time to try it all!
@gigatron – That’s cool!
I love this stuff too, I’ve quite a few from the engrish site, some touch a nerve a bit though (such as the “I hate myself and want to die!” shirt).One thing that struck me about wearing that in Japan was in stood out so much purely because it was written in Japanese. Nobody wears clothing with Japanese text on it, only English.
@Gigatron – you should get it! Only don’t wear it out unless you’re ready for the reactions – it was pretty full on.
What does the one you made say? (I don’t know the kanji).
Just looked up “gyaru” – scary stuff
Wow, massive!
Cool as.
Just out of interest, do the textfugu lessons cover this?Music such as Boris?
Looks great – thanks!
Good luck! Passion and enthusiasm all the way.
What sort of Japanese things do you get into?
I’ve found Obenkyo to be really good, it’s really helped me with kana and numbers.
The writing thing is a good idea, but I found it was a bit inaccurate at times.I haven’t used it before, but I was thinking about going to Lang8 to hear more examples of these sounds, to try and conquer them. Anybody have experience with Lang8? Would that be worthwhile?
@thisiskyle – thanks – that’s a good explanation, good way of seeing it.
