really packed a punch! I laughed so damn hard mannnnnnn

言いたい事は１つだけ：エドワード・エルリック　100％。
本当に、この以上が鋼の錬金術師と同じ言う事なんだよ！

Anyway, I just wanted to ask about the fast-food link. I didn’t get what you were getting at, because there is no mention of fecal matter or dying children pristine white or otherwise. It seems like a bad attempt to criticize honest, hard-working individuals who found a better way to do business successfully and *gasp* honestly by using a personal brand of ‘personal development’ we could probably learn from. (At one point, the author seemed disgusted that a honest businessman was not ASHAMED of being so successful.. because what, PROPER success is guilt-laden?) Is that why you linked? I’m just completely lost on the connection…

Thanks for the verbal slap in the face, Khatz. I don’t particularly need it at the moment – motoring along quite nicely (though fluency in 15-18 months ain’t gonna happen – maybe 24-36?) – but it’s bookmarked for the next time I start making excuses. Also, you’re 26? I always thought you were younger than me (clearly I fail at maths). The knowledge that we’re the same age makes me feel better… even though you’re fluent and I’m nowhere near it. Ummm, yeah.

@Maya

You WIN, you do. Chalk me up as a person helped : ) I can already recite the English version of Alice In Wonderland by heart (every line, every poem, every song, right down to the intonation) – now I can do it all again in Japanese!

@Daniel & @Matt

26 is clearly the prime age for language learning ; )

And smoothie drinking.

If anyone could help me out, that would be fantastic! These scripts are the main source of my sentence mining!

www.nfljapan.com/score/recap/54654.html

And I’m going to watch the Rice Bowl on January 3rd!

As rude as some people might think you are, I find you to be an awesome mentor. I think it’s all about having the right attitude towards language learners when preaching them, I mean, I’ve read it too many times already..’It won’t work for everybody’とか, ‘Not everybody could reach the same results’とか and other lines coming from those who ‘think’ they’re helping us when they’re doing nothing but wasting their time and more importantly, ours.

Keep up the good work!

Well I can’t really switch my computer to japanese ,as I have to share it with other people, in the near future i’ll buy myself a really really solid laptop and just make it pure Japanese. I’m trying just to put sites that i visit, such as youtube to japanese.
Yea I think since I haven’t really applied it much, kinda frustates me abit, Everyone wants results but obviously that takes time. But I’m trying to apply it to school, sometimes i just write random stuff in japanese, and ppl do tend to look and say “What’s he writing down?!” lol I remeber i randomly wrote like a paragraph of sentences of in japanese and one girl was like “YOU KNOW JAPANESE!?”. I was like no i suck at japanese! lol Maybe i;m not giving myself enough credit or something but i still suck badly. I’m sure the input will be able to get me fluent in 1 years time since i do spend quite a large amount of time doing sentences+reps and immersion. But output hasn’t come just yet for me. I think my problem is just to apply it and try to see how good i’ve gotten so far. But input i’ll do on my own, but output i’ll try practising even if it’s early on, like khatz said, if you want to do output early it’s good just have the person who you are speaking to correct you ruthlessly lol. So far i’ve went to 3117 kanji and 3700 sentences in 6 months.

When I walk through the International District, every week I find I can read a little more of the signs. I went to a Chinese restaurant with some friends on Saturday and I could read half the kanji on the cover of the menu (not technically Japanese but who cares?). On one of the twitter feeds I read (they’re great because they’re short sentences but real Japanese!), I could read a *whole sentence* today — because one of the kanji was one that my SRS has been showing me constantly for the past couple days, and I was *finally* able to write it this morning! (But I could easily read it, since reading is 5x easier.)

It also helps me to see that the things I used to think were hard, are now easy. When I flip open my kanji book to page 30, I can remember struggling with those, but today I can easily name every one. So I can imagine a day when I think the whole book is easy.

Here’s an idea: with that much kanji, you can probably get around on your computer pretty well. (You *do* have your computer set to Japanese, don’t you?) So go into your GMail preferences and set the language to Korean for 2 minutes. Holy cow I can’t read a single thing, or even pronounce anything, and all these characters look identical, I swear, and … OK, OK, breathe, it’s alright, I’ll just switch it back to something easy … Japanese! 🙂