fybabe wrote:actually, embarrassingly, i did a yr of japanese like 10 yrs ago. coz i'm a HUGE manga addict. at that time, there wasn't soooo many mangas translated into chinese (which thank god i'm pretty fluent at). btw, I have nearly 1000 - 2000 mangas, think i lost count.
but unfortunately i had no friends to converse/practise with in japanese, and the mangas are slowly being translated to mandarin. so i gave up studying japanese... now i regret dat so much...
moral of the story is, never give up on something coz you may need it in 10 yrs time... haha...
hehe...yup, that's a good advice, fybabe... i'll make sure i'll put that in my harddisk, or better yet, burn it cd so that if my harddisk crashed, i'll still have the backup copy (just a lil joke, considering so many pple are doing this to their arashi files...)
i started learning japanese last year, but i didn't want to go classes since i thought that it would steal the fun out of learning languages. so my twin and i studied by ourselves, with the help of beginners books, phrases books, dictionaries and by watching infinite supplies of jdoramas! but by then i only knew hiragana, katakana(most of the time i'd forget) and i dont trust myself with kanji since i thought it would be too overwhelming. then just a 3 months ago, after i've known arashi, the knowledge that i have on japanese(language, culture, pple, entertainment...etc) started to multiply like crazy. then the first kanji i learnt was arashi, even how the character was derived is totally interesting to me (mountain on top of the wind). the rest is history...
at home, my twin and i totally drive our family crazy. i started calling my sawada shin-like bro "happi-kun" (my bro's name's Hafiz), then often talking to each other using japanese phrases that we've known. even sometimes when my bro called me on the phone, he would say "Moshi-moshi...ogenki-desu ka?" now that i'm back in university, my friends would have to listen to me talking non-sensically in Japanese(nonsensically to them, full-of-sense to me...) :nut: