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konnichiwa!
Long time user, first time poster. First off, great....no...REALLY great site. Im Giuliano from the Netherlands, now living over a year in Japan Osaka and have to say I use this site DAILY to shape up my Japanese and increase my kanji vocabulary. The best, the fastest and the easiest site to study Japanese from on the web period. Thanks.
Hi all! With over 100 comments here, I'm going to keep this as short as I can.
Name's David.
I'm an Alternate Language Teacher in Gunma-ken on the JET program.
Been studying Japanese since high school, currently gearing up for the JLPT 1 next month.
Love the site!
Hi!
My name is Roald, I am from South Africa. I was an English teacher in Japan for a year teaching at five elementary schools. I have been studying Japanese for the past 2 and a half years or so from books and CDs and now a little from experience in Japan. The jisho.org website really helped me in Japan and still does so thank you VERY MUCH! I really appreciate the help!
Peace!
Hi. Im Jaganshi. Working as tester in Lexmark.:)
this is my first time to visit this forum. Reason, I was curious.:)
However, I've been using this site for translation and as an aid for studying Japanese language specially for vocabulary and grammar.
As i red through the posts, well, obviously, it gave me enough courage to study again. Last month, i gave up because i feel like i was alone. But my obsession for learning is still there - the obsession to talk, write, and speak japanese..
When I landed here, reading over the discussion, i was quite a bit surprise and happy.
It gave me a new goal. New hope. New inspiration.
Thanks to you Kim
Hello everyone.
I am a old learner of Japanese, but majority was self teaching.
By no means am I able to use Japanese well, but I am working on it.
Been using the site for a while, but today I started reading the forum.
I found a lot of really great questions and discussions on Japanese language, mentality and culture.
So, I decided to join up and make some responses.
I hope I can improve and absorb more.
Thank you so much for creating such a useful resource.
Hello, I'm American and I've been self-teaching myself Japanese for the past five years. I still have a long way to go but my goal is to learn as many languages as I can and to become a translator. I'll use any resource I can get my hands on. Right now I've memorized hiragana and katakana, and I've got about 400-500 kanji memorized. I'm still not so good with vocab though. I mostly use what I've learned to translate manga on mangahelpers and this site has helped me so much since I've started doing it. I do get stuck a lot though, which just goes to show how far I have to go. But I'm learning more and more everyday and I don't plan on giving up anytime soon.
I'll be studying in Japan for a semester next fall so I want to learn as much as I can before then.
Hello Everyone..I am an Indian and I started learning Japanese five months back and have already given my JLPT Level 3 exams and awaiting results..Though Japanese can be really confusing and may I add, irritating, at times but still I am loving the whole process and through this forum I hope to learn much from you guys also..
Hello guys!
I'm not an old user of this forum. BTW, I have interest in Japanese Language and I'm putting the lessons and methods of what I'm learning in my blog. Have a look and submit your comments out there:
http://japanese-speaker.blogspot.com
**Cheers**
Hey peoples,
I have actually never studied Japanese or been to Japan but I do know some Japanese from watching Anime with english subs, however I do not know how to read or write Japanese and I sometimes do look up words from my Anime on this site and see how the kanji is written and compare it to other similar words.
Hello!
I've used Denshi Jisho as my kanji translator/dictionary for a couple of years. And since then I didn't know about this forum. I discovered it when the main site went down.
Cheers!
I got a degree in East Asian Languages: Japanese from UC Berkeley in ''92 and have been studying off and on since then. The Kanji by Radical function is great. Thanks a lot. I'm trying to translate older authors like Tanizaki, Akutagawa, and Shiga Naoya, and also want to get back into Classical Japanese and translating the Tale of Genji and Hojoki and that kind of thing. I'd love to hear about any accessible resources for learning that kind of thing, or to hear from other people translating such things. I also would like to know what kind of electronic dictionaries and so forth people are using these days. I also wonder if I can get better fonts for my computer. It is a pain to read the ugly fonts I have on this Windows Vista computer. Email me at christopherfarrell at gmail.
こんいちは！
私はコーテイです。ウエスタンカラライナ大学の学生です。
I am a music major at college and really enjoy taking japanese. I took japanese 101 to fulfill my language requirement and I strongly enjoyed it.
I am now in beginning japanese II, and plan on picking up a japanese minor^^. The textbook we use in class is げんき, which i find to be really helpful.
I started my interest in japanese when i first got into reading manga and watching anime as a kid. since then my interest has grown, and along with having an interest in linguistics in general, my dream job would be to work with Square Enix, and/or Nobuo Uematsu himself.
I found this site when i was looking for the hiragana equivalent of a kanji wasn't sure about. I really like how the site works and how good it seems.
Nice to meet you all!
Hi my name is Nicola and I am currently living in Hakuba (Nagano). I am attempting to learn Japanese which is going slow at the moment.
Nice to meet everyone,
Nicola
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i, too, would like to add my name to the rightfully long list of admirers paying my respects to Kim for creating this site. i have been using this site for many months now, but have never "said" anything 'cause i didn't feel worthy enough. lol ... however, i realize that saying "thank you" is always the right thing to do, so, sumimasen for being tardy ... i am also quite intimidated by all of you out there in cyberland ... so many of you are more versed in Japanese than i'll ever hope to be. you have at least given me a goal to aim for ~ even if i never achieve as much as you all have, i'll be waaay better off than i am now!
こんばんは!
I'm Sefarian, from the United States. It's very nice to meet you!
I've had a longstanding interest in the Japanese language, as well as the culture that goes with it, for quite some time now. Until recently, however, I've never really had the ambition to actually try and learn the language. The interest comes purely from my own curiosity about different people and their history, as well as a desire to finally learn another language besides my native English.
About a week ago, a friend of mine gave me a set of old CD-Roms he didn't care to own anymore. They contained a language learning program he used to learn some Japanese a few years ago, though according to him he never got much further than a few lessons in before giving up. I've since installed the program, and, have started down the road to reading, understanding, and speaking 日本語!
But if only it was going to be that easy, right?
After having installed and used the program for a few days, I found myself left with several questions that the program just couldn't answer. Things like, "what's the difference between '跳んでいます。' and '飛び越えています。'?", and "why is the 'とった' in '年をとった女の人は髪が黒いです。' there, and what does it mean?". I must admit, that the lack of supplemental information and explanation for the exercises that came with the program was frustrating, and I came to understand why my friend gave up. So, I decided to turn to an old ace in the hole for help; the internet! Determined not to let this opportunity for knowledge slip by so easily, I started surfing the web. This was two days ago.
Today, I arrive here. When I came across Denshi Jisho, I found it to be a very nice website, particularly so when it comes to ease of use when compared to other dictionaries that I came across in my search. With it, I managed to educate myself in short order on the difference between 跳んでいます。 and 飛び越えています。, though it's left me wondering why it changes 跳んでいます。 to 跳ぶ. Still, though, progress is progress, and I believe that with the collective resources I've found I *can* do this.
So, to you Kim, thank you for putting together this wonderful resource for newbies like me. I hope to put it to good use.
飛び越える is a pretty advanced word for your first few lessons in Japanese. Days of the week and talking about buying red pencils seems a friendlier way to start but you`re diving right in there...
I remember when I started learning, it seemed overwhelming at first and I can recall flipping to the last lesson of my 101 textbook and seeing a full paragraph of Japanese and thinking it insurmountable, but all in due time. Now I laugh at such paragraphs and instead break a sweat when I crack open a Mishima novel and wonder what on earth he`s talking about. But again, I must remind myself: in due time. (And in my case, with my slow, reptilian brain, it will take a fair amount).
はじめまして。Bogart96です。よろしくおねがいします。
I'm from Germany. Been using this site for months now, and never saw this thread until today - too concentrated on looking up things *LoL*.
I'm so glad this site exists - Thank you very much!!! What is most helpful to me are the tons of sample sentences. Whenever I'm struggling with the exact meaning and usage of a word, it is here I come to look for a clue, and if I don't find it here, then only a Japanese-Japanese dict will help. Today for instance I was after とばかり. Read the sentences and think I "got it", well, almost :-)
Have been studying Japanese online for almost 3 years now. Fell in love with Kanji at the age of 14, when I first saw a few pages of printed Japanese. Then I thought "Looks beautiful! Is that real? Do people somewhere on the Earth really write like this? Schoolkids my age as well? Got to manage that, too, no matter when, no matter how long it takes!"
Travelled to Japan 4 times on vacation so far, in recent years, but was seldom in the situation to really need to speak the language well as I kept meeting Japanese people who spoke a much better German (or English or French).
Since I don't have the opportunity or necessity to speak Japanese in my daily life, I am focusing on developing reading and writing skills, for now.
Among others, I thought it would be a good idea to practice with the Japanese translation of one of my favourite books. I selected Dumas' "Les Trois Mousquetaires", 「三銃士」. When I feel energetic, I sit down to copy the Japanese text from the book, looking up all the vocab and writing it down. I also include the French original text as a guidance. When I feel less energetic, I sit down to review the vocab and read the sentences carefully, over and over again, out loud, until they make sense to me. Sometimes I skype with a friend. She is patient enough to hear me reading, and corrects me, or reads the passages out loud for me from the PDF I have uploaded. She laughs at my infatuation with this text. Anyway, I haven't even finished Chapter 2 so far*LoL*
Good luck everybody, and have fun learning this language! And again a big THANK YOU to Kim for this site.
Oh, and who was it asking about Japanese fonts for Windows Vista? I like the "Epson" fonts (but there are many more), you can find them here:
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
はじめまして。
I'm from Malaysia and I fell in love with the Japanese language when I watched anime in its original Japanese language back in 2001. Normally, the animes I can find in my country back then was either dubbed in English, Malay, Mandarin or Cantonese. Unlike nowadays, you can stream or download your desired anime. It wasn't till we have cable and I get to view Japanese speaking anime characters.
I have been taking once-a-week classes since 2003 and I love every moment of it. It is rather difficult to converse with a person who speaks Japanese on a daily basis. So in my class, of course you would still have the normal lessons on the language but my sensei would sometimes conduct her classes to make it more interesting. Like cooking Japanese dishes, playing Japanese board games and telling us about cultures in Japan.
My sensei is from Osaka and she invited me over to Japan back in 2005. Although I wasn't fluent as I hoped to be then, I really enjoyed myself. The food, the culture and the environment all the more inspired me to work hard on learning the language. She invited me and the rest of my classmates for another visit and we are so excited. She asked us to search for places that we would love to go. Being a die-hard animation fan, I really wanted to go to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo.
I stumbled upon this website yesterday and I must admit, this is one helpful website. Not only it helped me with identifying certain kanjis but it also provided me valuable information on sentences and phrases which other websites couldn't. Thank you so much and I hope all of us can help and learn something from one another.
よろしくお願いします。
はじめまして。
Hi guys! I'm a college student from Ireland. I study English literature and Japanese in the University of Limerick. I always loved Japanese anime from a very young age. I didn't realise these cartoons were Japanese until I was older and it was then that I fell in love with the language and culture. I taught myself Japanese for the Leaving Certificate (which is the Irish State Exam) and achieved a high grade. My friends find my adamant enthusiasm for Japanese very amusing and I'm practically obsessed! I'm very glad to meet you all and look forward to participating in the forum!
I only found this site recently but I'm looking forward to using it in my studies!
どぞうよろしくお願いします。
Sensei-less JapaneseHi
I am a Danish guy, 23 years old, I work for Sony Music in Tokyo and I live in Odaiba, since 3 years back. I use this site to check up sentences and kanji. Thanks!
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I am a Danish guy, 23 years old, I work for Sony Music in Tokyo and I live in Odaiba, since 3 years back. I use this site to check up sentences and kanji. Thanks!
Wait what, you're a Danish guy who at 20 years old got a job at Sony Music in Tokyo?
Hur fan fick du det jobbet O.o?
I am New here.............I am happy to Join here..........
Hello and thank you for your wonderful website.
I would love to be an active member in these forums.
I can't wait to meet others who can teach me and discourse over J-Drama translations.
Hi. I'm from Norway and have been studying Japanese on my own for about one year. At the time being I study German at university, but I hope to study Japanese next fall. I don't really understand why I want to learn Japanese so much. I saw a Japanese drama and started learning hiragana for fun, and now I can't stop.
Happy to be a part of the forums, love Denshi Jisho :-)