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.

Last edited by kitakitsune (2011 October 16, 9:02 am)

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?

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.

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.

Last edited by imabi (2012 March 18, 6:06 pm)

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.

Last edited by imabi (2011 October 21, 8:37 am)

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

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.

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

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

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.

Last edited by Hashiriya (2011 October 16, 6:13 pm)

You can't pick your language in the military.

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