So You Want To Learn Japanese

I only just found out about this site, but I think it has been around for a while. I found it to be laugh out loud funny at times, especially since I'm currently in a Japanese class! **

Enjoy! -ANB

Oh yes...^_^ And on that note, I wonder whatever became of Jack Seward (Japanese In Action, the first book to make me realize the difference between 'Textbook' Japanese and the stuff everyone else uses)? I remember he used to work for Mangajin during the last 3 or 4 years of it's life. He was one funny

If by 'laugh out loud funny' you mean 'dumber than shit', then yeah.

Well, I am pretty dumb, so... :-P

Well, I grew up learning Chinese, so practicing how to write all those squiggly hiragana and boxy katakana wasn't much of a problem. The politeness levels aren't that terribly difficult, either, it's just a new set of conjugation rules to remember.

What got me was that I couldn't memorize a new set of pronunciations and meanings on top of the Chinese words I knew. Every time I tried to learn kanji, my previous Chinese kept interfering. Eventually I got lazy and decided to just semi-guess at what the words meant.

Nobody's disputing that.

YES! The undisputed dummy. WAAA!HOO!

I think if Japanese didn't have hirigana and katakana it would be the worst language every because of each kanji having more than one meaning.

You are kind of the world, of stupidty? ^_-