http://www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com/
http://www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com/aboutme.htm

Penned by a seventeen-year-old boy. Impressive.

Wut O_O It's great~

Pretty impressive amount of stuff there but he really needs to run his lessons through a native speaker. There are lots of mistakes and lots of ridiculous kanji and grammatical usage that may technically correct but not common use. And reading his lessons on keigo, you can really tell that the author doesn't have any real experience speaking or listening to actual keigo.

Stuff like that. Still, very impressive. I would like to see what this guy creates after he spends a few years in Japan and finishes his education.

I'm not the only one who wondered what I'm a Bi Japanese Learning Center was, right?

Quote:However, I make other means of media to use Japanese daily. Also, I have had many occasions with speaking to fellow Japanese speakers. It is only at the moment that I have no partner because of events. My oral skills are quite punctual and, as my works on phonetics in Lesson 1 should prove, I can quickly judge the pronunciations of that of another speaker.

...Native English speaker?

buonaparte Wrote:http://www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com/
http://www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com/aboutme.htm

Penned by a seventeen-year-old boy. Impressive.

Ha! Thanks for linking it! I've been looking for it all over the place in my (shall we say not very well structured mess of numerous) favorites. I find it amazing what he is pulling off there.

I'm glad to see someone who started when they are young, personally I feel like I wasted all those years in High scool. Now that I'm in college, I'm not wasting time anymore.
Reading the site so far and it's sweet.

Hi Seth,

Nice to see that you read this board. I don't want to get in a flame war or anything, I think what you're doing is really awesome and that you will probably go on to create a great textbook series in the future. The amount of Japanese linguistics knowledge that you have gained is clearly well more than most Japanese majors learn in university and it is truly amazing that you did this before finishing high school.

Anyway

Just wanted to let you know that just because I live in Hawaii (right now) doesn't mean that I haven't had a "genuine" keigo experience or that I cannot get one now (lets just ignore the millions of Japanese visitors who come here every year).

I learned Japanese while working in Japan back when you were in middle school and I'm currently a student at a little place called 日米経営科学研究所 where I do study keigo nearly exclusively and have J1 BJT certification. That's my keigo credentials and I really hate to break it to you here, but it is blatantly obvious that you have never stepped foot inside a Japanese business before. Take that how you will.

Moral of the story is that I really think you should run your lessons through native speakers and get their input more often.

Well, in times past I had problems with someone from Hawaii. Sorry.

I have had it reviewed by people at the University of Hawaii and a teacher at the University of Texas. I am getting an acquaintance from Virginia to have his teacher read through it as well.

I am too young to be in a Japanese corporation. If you would be so kind as to give examples, I would greatly accept them. However, my examples are based off of actual texts.

I do my best to try to address everything as easy as possible. Once I get into college, a lot of things will probably change. I particularly want to study dialectology and Okinawan languages.

Oh, and people: it's not i'm-a-bi; lol. I had to coin a name to make it unique and easy to find. I think it's catchy.

I'm sure with your grades and obvious skills you will have no issue finding funding for university. Are you looking at U Hawaii? I don't know any other university where you can duel major in Japanese and Korean.

Look into the MEXT scholarship if you want to study at a Japanese university. I think the deadline for applying is coming up soon.

I can double major in them at Boston University. I was already informed that there wasn't much scholarships available for undergraduates at UH, and since the cost of living and out of state tuition combined is much more compared to what it would be than going to Boston, I am more worried about getting into Boston at the moment.

I will look into the MEXT scholarship. Thanks for the information.

Every time I see this URL, I just see a Japanese learning center announcing its sexual preference to the world.

I was thinking more "I'm a bee".
Pretty good site!

Real funny. We should all know that "i" is pronounce as "e" in Japanese. Thanks for the complement though.

You should apply to UH anyway and see what they offer you.

I know that the majority of people majoring in Korean at UH are actual Koreans and they might be excited to increase their diversity by giving whitey a scholarship.

JimmySeal Wrote:Every time I see this URL, I just see a Japanese learning center announcing its sexual preference to the world.

i heard they're in competition with iamahomojapaneselearningcenter.com.

Go to the college that gives you the most money, not the first one to accept you.

Really? No need to pull the gay card. Gay people are completely respectable people too. Now, if you want to say something constructive for me that's one thing, but making fun of the name is childish.

As for college, it would be smart to look at that too. It's just that my parents will drool over the first letter and will probably have all the relatives from God knows where called by the time I'd find it. lol

You can tell your parents to calm down and you will go to college but you have to consider financial aid and the quality of education.

Also keep in mind that the Korean and Japanese language programs at UH are some of the best in the world. I don't know anything about the quality at BU but I never heard of their program at all.

Anyway - These are the big players in the Japanese world

Columbia
Harvard
Indiana
Ohio State
Princeton
Stanford
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Washington
Yale University

I've already considered applying to most of those. Thanks for the list.

Son, if you are that desperate for college funds, you should check out the National Guard... in fact you could become a linguist in the National Guard and they would send you to the military language school in California...

EDIT: As a person who is already in college studying as a Japanese language major... College Japanese isn't great as what it might seem to you on the outside. You would be better off studying on your own unless you specifically need a degree for something.

DLI (Defense Language Institute) is a college... you would come out of there with a associate's degree and 4 more years of college should get you around your master's degree with the help of the GI Bill

http://www.dliflc.edu/index.html

You can't pick your language in the military.

I am aware about that. But, I still want to pursue a phd in Japanese no matter what. It's just what I want to do in life.

just get your website proof-read by a Japanese person and I think it will be a huge benefit to everyone