QUOTE(HenryA @ Aug 2 2007, 12:37 AM)

Last Summer, I had the time to learn Hiragana and Katakana...but this time around I haven't

But I'm glad I took the time to learn last summer. (Learned basic sentence composition,etc as well)
Kanji is where the fun starts @_@ God I hate kanji.
QUOTE(el_pinguino @ Aug 2 2007, 12:39 AM)

Yeah, so that's why I REALLY gotta cram up the yapanese, and pretty much become a fluent yapanesian speaker.
That's pretty cool though. I wish I could do that...just major in anything to be a teacher hah hah. But that's a good idea. I'd rather be fluent in the native language over saying the wrong things, and making the students learn wrong.
I'm pretty fluent in my tone of speech, presentation, and ad-libbing, my teacher actually complimented me, saying had she not known I wasn't, I would have sounded like a natural Japanese person. Thank you anime.
I specialize in casual conversation, including yakuza dialect ^o^
@Henry - No problem, it's a good anime. I really enjoyed it. Prepare for a heart wrencher. If you've ever seen Air, lol, it's almost as bad as the ending of Air.