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Learning Japanese!

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:48 am
by Yukifox
I am trying! Wish me luck, I just picked up Rosetta Stone (from a friend) and I've started the lessons.

Do we have any native speakers here and where would be a good place to go to learn/interact with other people that are trying? ^ ^;

Wish me luck!

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:50 am
by tachikaze
Good Luck!

No advice on social sites, but I've found popjisho:

http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx

to be an indispensable resource in translation work.

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:43 am
by Yukifox
Ah, that's really neat. ^__^

どもありがと。

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:43 am
by DaiDCTfan
Yukifox,

How is your Japanese going? Gambatte!

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:45 pm
by Yukifox
Better! Working on it right now. Going to be going into classes this summer. ^_^;

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:23 am
by Yukifox
Good news! Due to work and various financial difficulties, my ability to go to school was delayed for... a long time!

But after hard work and several attempts to acquire the proper paperwork, I'm actually going to be going to school to get my degree in Applied Linguistics / Japanese Studies and get the papers to become an ESoL instructor (and possibly a Japanese or English teacher).

:3! Woo!

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:11 am
by Jei
Congrats and megaGanbatte! :)

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:28 am
by tachikaze
awesome!

I actually went over to Tokyo before the web got popular, so things are a lot easier now.

unfortunately Japan is kinda shrinking as a country -- when I was there there were 20M young people my age, now there are only 15M young adults -- and competition among foreigners for jobs there is pretty tough, but on the other hand China and Korea are taking up some of the competition so it could be worse I guess.

Study hard, stay focused, and get yourself into top physical shape. Succeeding in the Japanese market requires presenting a professional, friendly image and that takes work and experience to create and maintain!

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:58 pm
by tokyophoto
Yukifox wrote:But after hard work and several attempts to acquire the proper paperwork, I'm actually going to be going to school to get my degree in Applied Linguistics / Japanese Studies and get the papers to become an ESoL instructor (and possibly a Japanese or English teacher).

:3! Woo!
How's it going so far?

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:28 pm
by Yukifox
tokyophoto wrote:
Yukifox wrote:But after hard work and several attempts to acquire the proper paperwork, I'm actually going to be going to school to get my degree in Applied Linguistics / Japanese Studies and get the papers to become an ESoL instructor (and possibly a Japanese or English teacher).

:3! Woo!
How's it going so far?
Well I haven't gotten into any of my core classes just yet. Doing my basic English, getting my Philosophy and American history out of the way. Intro to Anthropology is neat. I might have that as my minor. n.n; Unfortunately though, for the time being, I'm still stuck learning at home.