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What age are you? - fakewookie - 2011-04-06
21. Been learning Japanese for between two and three years.
I'm planning on starting a gap year in Japan this summer once I graduate, and I want to be totally fluent by the end of it. I'm not certain what I'm going to be doing yet, I just want to have a fun year and goof around with my friends in Tokyo, who are also going this summer (I have a friend who's going to a language school, and a Japanese friend who's going back to Yokohama).
But after that I want to move on and get to work on Cantonese. I love Japan but I think I'd rather live in Hong Kong :3
What age are you? - Asriel - 2011-04-06
zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.qft
What age are you? - Andres - 2011-04-06
I wonder if I'm the youngest ... 14.
I haven't really been studying Japanese that much but I've had this account for 2 years, and I recently finished RTK 1.
I'm also trying to go to Japan next year with AFS, so I can learn more of the language in a high school scenario.
What age are you? - NoSleepTilFluent - 2011-04-07
kitakitsune Wrote:27/M/JP IM ME21/M/NJ
4th semester of J at uni but if you dont count that I've been doing this for about 2.5 months finished RTK March 23rd.
What age are you? - dat5h - 2011-04-07
Age: 25
I hate to admit it, but I started learning Japanese 10 years ago in high school. Japanese classes were never really my strong suit, so I continually did poorly. When I entered college I started doing terribly. I lived in a Japanese dormitory for a year when I promptly got a D+ in Japanese, which led me to start studying on my own (ie. I was not allowed to continue, so I stopped for 2 years). I found this site and subsequently RTK (followed shortly by an introduction to Anki) in my senior year of college around the same time that I applied and got accepted to grad school in Tokyo. I finally finished RTK in the summer of 2009 (I think ... I don't remember, I could always look at when I posted in that finished thread ... but, meh). I still never had a good continuous study/reading regime until about last Summer, though (This oddly coincides with the release of Ankimobile and my buying of an iPhone ... well whodathunkit). Took me long enough
I gotta say, if I had never found this site and all the resources and discussions around here, my Japanese would still be pretty pitiful despite having lived here for 2.5 years already. In fact, Kanji was far and away the worst part of my Japanese (followed by vocab) until I finished RTK. Thanks to all of you guys on this forum!
What age are you? - buonaparte - 2011-04-07
Anyone who wants to beat me is crazy. I'm the youngest. I'm one hundred and two young.
Never did Heisig.
What age are you? - strawberry - 2011-04-07
18
started RTK 2 days ago.
frame 85
What age are you? - ta12121 - 2011-04-07
zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.hmmm, not sure what to say about that one lol. I guess it really depends on what you think. Although this is a forum and what people believe and what is the truth are two different things. I am a native-speaker, but I do agree I need to work on my grammar. That's what everyone tells me and thanks to the srs I can improve on this really fast.
What age are you? - ta12121 - 2011-04-07
Asriel Wrote:Would it be wierd if I said I actually got an award in my english grade 12 class for writing well. Although that was back in grade 12, maybe my english just got horrible due to japanese. There is another possible I'm just lazy as well.zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.qft
If anyone can recommend some good english grammar sites/books that are easy/on the spot. I'd read up on it and use it to improve my grammar
What age are you? - KMDES - 2011-04-07
buonaparte Wrote:Anyone who wants to beat me is crazy. I'm the youngest. I'm one hundred and two young.No kidding. :o I'm two hundred and five, just turned that last month. You sure are young.
Never did Heisig.
Did Heisig 2042 times.
What age are you? - zachandhobbes - 2011-04-07
ta12121 Wrote:No, it wasn't an attack or anything. I have just seen you consistently produce some pretty funky, hard to read posts. Like your writing has no sense of flow to it that a native speaker (or writer I guess) would have. But that is just a misjudgment on my part, maybe. No one really types perfectly on the internet anyway.zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.hmmm, not sure what to say about that one lol. I guess it really depends on what you think. Although this is a forum and what people believe and what is the truth are two different things. I am a native-speaker, but I do agree I need to work on my grammar. That's what everyone tells me and thanks to the srs I can improve on this really fast.
What age are you? - kainzero - 2011-04-07
zachandhobbes Wrote:No, it wasn't an attack or anything. I have just seen you consistently produce some pretty funky, hard to read posts. Like your writing has no sense of flow to it that a native speaker (or writer I guess) would have. But that is just a misjudgment on my part, maybe. No one really types perfectly on the internet anyway.play call of duty on xbox, you'll lose faith in english speakers.
What age are you? - dmatsui - 2011-04-08
i'm a native english speaker as well and i have to admit sometimes if i look over some of the posts i've done i cant make heads or tails of them. Never did learn english grammar beyond the verb adjective noun bit and i dont think trying to pick up any of that will actually help me.
Either way i'm 20 I finished RTK about a month ago i think, ended up doing it in somewhere between 4-5 months. I suppose you could say i started learning japanese about 8 months ago using various methods before stumbling on RTK and AJATT and throwing the rest out of the window.
What age are you? - yukamina - 2011-04-08
ta12121 Wrote:If anyone can recommend some good english grammar sites/books that are easy/on the spot. I'd read up on it and use it to improve my grammarhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/01/
You can start here...
What age are you? - ta12121 - 2011-04-08
zachandhobbes Wrote:I can agree that my writing is pretty random at times. Well a lot of times actually. I'll see what I can do about it. Personally a lot of people say I just need to improve on grammar. Although you've got me thinking about my writing flow and how I write things.ta12121 Wrote:No, it wasn't an attack or anything. I have just seen you consistently produce some pretty funky, hard to read posts. Like your writing has no sense of flow to it that a native speaker (or writer I guess) would have. But that is just a misjudgment on my part, maybe. No one really types perfectly on the internet anyway.zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.hmmm, not sure what to say about that one lol. I guess it really depends on what you think. Although this is a forum and what people believe and what is the truth are two different things. I am a native-speaker, but I do agree I need to work on my grammar. That's what everyone tells me and thanks to the srs I can improve on this really fast.
What age are you? - ta12121 - 2011-04-08
yukamina Wrote:I was thinking of using the srs to improve my grammar at a fast pace. But a lot of people say just read up on it and you'll be fineta12121 Wrote:If anyone can recommend some good english grammar sites/books that are easy/on the spot. I'd read up on it and use it to improve my grammarhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/01/
You can start here...
What age are you? - zachandhobbes - 2011-04-08
Well if you want some feedback, I'd say use more commas. You use periods a lot to break up your thoughts, when really a comma would be more appropriate. There are also some spots that would read better with a comma. not to be anal or anything, just to give an example:
"well, a lot of times actually" would sound a lot more natural than "well a lot of times actually"
What age are you? - mark95427 - 2011-05-10
zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.LOL. Capitalize 'E' in English.
Well, anyways, I'm 15 right now.
I started and finished RTK during summer vacation last year. [I was 14 then]. Those two months went by fast. ;]
I'm the youngest, I think.
rawr.
What age are you? - arch9443 - 2011-05-10
I see people question ta12121 a lot about his English, however it never really looks that strange to me.
I'm in a somewhat peculiar situation because I tend to really struggle when it comes to proper grammar and whatnot in my writing. Maybe because I didn't learn a single grammar term until Senior year in high school >.>
However, I constantly get praised by teachers and peers for my speeches. I'm apparently a fantastic speaker, even though I despise it. I personally think I'm a horrible speaker, but I can't get other people to agree with me no matter how hard I try.
I find the contrast between the responses I get for writing vs speaking kind of interesting.
What age are you? - Tori-kun - 2011-05-10
mark95427 Wrote:I'm the youngest, I think.17 here
rawr.
2nd youngest.
What age are you? - zigmonty - 2011-05-10
mark95427 Wrote:Pffft. Says who? I say either capitalise all nouns like the germans or none.zachandhobbes Wrote:About peculiarities, I'm still not convinced that ta12121 is a native english speaker.LOL. Capitalize 'E' in English.
What age are you? - Andres - 2011-05-10
Tori-kun Wrote:I think I'm the youngest -- 14mark95427 Wrote:I'm the youngest, I think.17 here
rawr.
What age are you? - ta12121 - 2011-05-10
arch9443 Wrote:I see people question ta12121 a lot about his English, however it never really looks that strange to me.I definitely do need to work on my grammar. Plus, I'm working on improving grammar/flow. To put it simpler terms: I'm working on getting it solid, if I ever want to be a translator, my grammar has to be solid. Same with my writing
I'm in a somewhat peculiar situation because I tend to really struggle when it comes to proper grammar and whatnot in my writing. Maybe because I didn't learn a single grammar term until Senior year in high school >.>
However, I constantly get praised by teachers and peers for my speeches. I'm apparently a fantastic speaker, even though I despise it. I personally think I'm a horrible speaker, but I can't get other people to agree with me no matter how hard I try.
I find the contrast between the responses I get for writing vs speaking kind of interesting.
What age are you? - Jarvik7 - 2011-05-10
arch9443 Wrote:I see people question ta12121 a lot about his English, however it never really looks that strange to me.His English is fine enough for forum banter, but he has specified numerous times that he wants to be a translator. As a translator is essentially a professional writer, excellent grammar is a minimum. I don't follow the forum that closely anymore, but he seems better than before.
What age are you? - Kuma01 - 2011-05-10
I'm 21 years old, but I'm guessing most people on here are twenty somethings. I started studying Japanese around mid february this year, completed Heisig about a month later and then I started to look at grammar and sentences. I came to the conclusion that I'd rather expand my vocab first, because remembering several readings per sentence proved to be very inefficient. So now I'm going through the core 2k.