darkcloud

Watashi wa eigo ga wakarimasu! Is how it should be spelled. Anata wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu! =P

Yep it is. lol Well as far as being called a foreigner can be insulting. :-/ Bleh depends how it's said I guess. lol

Oh I forgot to mention, if anyone does find out what the first song on my list and says the name, you should all download it..... Best song ever.

Yeah, but to say "watashi wa gaijin desu." would sound wierd. =P

ROFL...... Yeah it is Life is a boat. =P And no I don't. lol I'm guessing you don't have all of them, but, as you got Life you should know atleast one other. =P

Nan datte!?!?!?! I only wish that was enough at this age. ; ;

Ok anyone who can get all of my songs are amazing. rofl 1) Just A Breakin' on, Busta Beats YO! (rofl no one is getting this =P) 2) hanaya no misesaki ni naranda iron'na hana wo mite ita (and again =P) 3) Kimi wa itsumo boku no kusuribako sa (starting to see a patern here o.O) 4) Mitasareta jikanno nakade Bokuraha naniga dekirudarou 5) fumikomu ze akuseru kakehiki wa nai sa sou dayo yoru wo nukeru (slightly easier =p) 6) Hakuna matata, what a wonderful phrase.. Hakuna matata, aint no passin craze! (rofl yeah) 7) ienai itami kanashimi de kizu tsuita kimi yo (oh dear. =P) 8) No body knows who I really am, I never felt this empty before. (damn anime having an emo song on it v.v; 9) Sora ni seiza ga maiorite kuru to TENDER sou konya mattenda kimi to issho nara uchuu e tobesou nate aimai kai? 10) The visions dancing in my mind, the early dawn the shades of time, twilight crawling through my window pain. Ok, you find out where all these songs come from and wow you are amazing. =P Oh and no google searches >.>

Hai hai! Watashi wa amerikajin desu! (I don't know how to say english person so I'll pretend I'm american =P)

Ok, it seems there might be a problem with my method of everyone getting hold of it properly? If you are having problems please pm me. v.v;; Ok a small update........ There is no problems. Everything is going well. Please tell me if you didn't get a second pm from me. 　 ∧＿∧ 　（´∀｀* ） 　⊂二、　　○　　 　　　 ＼　 ） ）　 　　　　/　/ /　 　　　（_＿）_） /sigh......... Damn the lack of ability to bump threads....... Anyway....... Anata wa nihongo ga wakarimas ka?

It renders in .mov format. v.v;; Nice Nemoish fish you got there, I can see the likeness to creature comforts as well. Good work. ^^d

OMG! So yesterday sucked....... First I couldn't get onto the site then there were database problems....... Then I had to let my girlfriend online for a bit....... Blah....... Anyway, I promise I will get things started today. /sigh.... Flaight, thanks for correcting me, I've never really been sure how to spell that word. XD I just typed it how I hear it/have said it with people understanding me. lol And to anyone else who wants to ask it won't ever be too late to join in, you will just have to catch up a bit if we've already started, we will of course offer help to you at any stage. Ok, I just sent out PM's to 13 people who seemed interested! Please follow my instructions in the pm. lol

Yah very good post. XD Pimsleur, what we will be using, teaches buisiness Japanese as you call it.... After that comes stuff like Osaka slang (which my girlfriend being an Osakien can help me with) and other dialects. But that's getting ahead of myself..... For now we stick to the basics...... Nihongo ga scushi wakarimasu! (Complete with crappy romaji maybe.....)

That doesn't matter super, I only need one person online at that time although more would be better. lol Nope Twoz that doesn't matter, you can a) help us along or b) do what I'm doing and go back to that start to see if you've missed anything out.

That's a shame fatnick. ; ; Not all bad news though I guess as Twozzok will join us. Ok so tomorrow morning I'm going to PM everyone details on how to get the first lesson.... Please could atleast one person try to be online between the times of 11:00am and 5:00pm in order to recieve my PM. You'll see why at the time. lol

Anyone who wants to add me, my address is removed......... You probably don't need to add me though really.... Although it could end up helping......... *thinks* Anyway, Incomplete, why don't you just start over with us? I've actually gone part of the ways through Pimsleur, but, I'm going to start over with everyone else..... It'll help as a bit of practice until everyone is up to the point I was at then I'll start learning new stuff again. Anyway, I'm thinking that I will start this up tomorrow if that's cool with everyone who wants to take part.....? I will give everyone information on where to get the first lesson a bit later.

What you mean in Japan............. As in random Japanese people on the streat? lol I'm only telling you what a) my girlfriend said and b) what my girlfriends good friend says and she only came from Japan last year. lol

Infact, that's not exactly true. rofl Most Japanese can say stuff like "this is a pen" " this is a pencil" "my name is blahblah" as is the same with most people in England who took French/Spanish..... It's the exception to be able to speak English well...... They can read/write pretty well though... Yah that would be pretty funny booker. lol Two people not knowing like any Japanese, but, still talking to each other in the language....... Not sure how far we would get though. lolol

I'm personally not going to try to learn hira and kata until I get the basis of the speach down itself...... I mean I would then be able to read really basic stuff, but, I won't know what it means........ So I would get disheartened. lol I'm pretty sure others would be interested in learning though so if you wanted to do hira/kata lessons at the same time that would be pretty cool actually. I mean I will find it helpful to look back on once I'm ready to learn it so yeah.... I say you should go for it. ^^d Ok I'm going to give a basic idea of how this will all work it seems like there is enough interest to give it a go..... Everyone would have to get hold of Pimsleur Japanese 1 (that would be good for the first 30 lessons but if everything goes well then 2 and 3 would be needed later)........ Pimsleur is meant to be the best teaching method available for learning to speak Japanese without actually taking classes in the subject... Pimsleur 1 (and 2/3) are split up into 30 lessons which last 30 mins each.... It is advised that you do 1 lesson a day..... That's 30 mins of your time, I'm sure everyone must have 30 mins spare a day.... I mean you could put it onto an mp3 player and do it on the way to school/work if need be........ After each lesson we would speak about what we've learned and practice with each other on the forums... Obviously this wouldn't be too detailed after the first lesson or so, but, after a while I'm sure we could go into some detail. If there is anything that you aren't grasping such as sentence formation then you could just post in the thread and someone should be able to clear things up for you...... Basically having a group of people to give you a hand gives you another perspective on what you have heard........ Makes things a lot easier. I'm not sure if I'm missing anything out here or what..... >.< Oh and btw, I have an easy way for everyone to get hold of each lesson every day, but, I will go into detail on that later when I know exactly how many people are going to do this....... Also if people would prefere a schedule so you wouldn't have to be commited every day then we could sort that out as well. Any questions? I kinda got lost in what I was saying there. Oh and to those who added me to msn I will be online tomorrow.. Right now my girlfriend is using my pc to play FFXI and this PC I'm on dies with msn. rofl

It would only take up 30 mins a day of your time and I know people who have learned 3 languages at a time... Infact if anything learning more stuff at one time is easier as it creates more brain activity. The lessons I speak of are 30 mins each and there are 30 in each section... There are also 3 sections..... So in 90 days we will have finished all the lessons.... Obviously not everything would have been taken in, but, that's where the usefull notes come into play. The practicing on the forums will help you forget the smaller parts in the lessons...... These lessons also go back over subjects constantly. It would be good fun and probably make you feel less stress from the spanish as well as helping you out by expanding your mind. Oh and yes it's romaji.......... I sometimes add an n as well. v.v;;

I was going to take a course at school as well, but, I put it off until next year when I have more time. ^^; Considering I'm going to Japan this year however that was a mistake. lolol Fatnickc will you join our group? Whilst at the start I'm sure you will know most of what we are learning I'm sure you would pick up something new as well and be able to help us out at the same time. Ermmm yah I can see it, but, I know 0 Hira, kata or kanji. =P SO yeah no idea what it says...... People won't actually need Japanese installed on the computer (at least at first) for what I want to do as we will be focusing on getting the basics of the spoken language down........ Learning to read and write it will be easier after that anyway. =P

Anytime that happens I can easilly get my girlfriend to help us out. Also the point is that hopefully one person will be able to correct the next filling in gaps of things we don't know..... I'll only get my girlfriend to help if everyone gets a bit lost. =P

ROFL! Well that's a more advanced subject. ^^d We'll be getting onto that at some point. Something to look forward to in the Japanese class I guess. =P Cool we got one man up for it! ^^d Jordan rejoin the crusade to learn Japanese! You know you want to!

- Any comment that calls for or encourages unlawful or illegal behaviour or might result in harm to others is prohibited, this includes the discussion of ROM files. Hmmm I guess so...... Ok mr I will change it seeing as it seems to have offended your better sences.........

I'm not telling anyone where to download it........... I mean it's not against the law to go around telling someone to download something even if the downloading of that item is illegal...... Also I'm not supporting such sites by advertising a URL for them.... *shrug* It really isn't THAT difficult..... You just have to put in a lot of effort.... That's why I'm trying to get others to help along and encourage each other..... Makes things a lot easier and also a lot less boring...... =P

Ok so I've been thinking...... I've been learning Japanese, but, really I have no one pushing me to do it so I tend to slack off a bit..... I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in learning from the same stuff and then practicing here together.... If we did it in the way I'm thinking it would be more learning to speak Japanese rather then read/write so we would probably be using slightly messed up Romaji on the forums, but, it would be very helpful...... I sometimes try practicing with my girlfriend, but, her being fluent doesn't help as she'll often come out with stuff I don't have a clue about....... That will help later on but not right now. lol So yeah, my plan...... First everyone would have to "get hold of" Pimsleur Japanese 1 (and later 2 and 3)........ This is a very good tape lesson set.... Costs a lot of money to buy so I would suggest going a "cheaper alternate" route would be the way to go. ^^d We would probably do a lesson a day as instructed by the guide and then practice on here by typing it out....... It would help your speaking as well if you said it out loud as you typed...... Before starting this up I'm just wondering who would be interested. ^^d