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ぼくはこうこうさんねんせいです、でも... I definitely plan on taking it in college. It's sort of a dream of mine to study abroad at temple university in tokyo, but I don't think I could ever afford it.
I plan to major in international business, and will also take courses in economics and japanese.
A good number of colleges that offer japanese require majors to study abroad for at least one semester, so if I can, I'll major. But, business is my numero-ichi for now. [Nihospeingo?] [Eh?] [Eigono-hable shimasu...]

I don't know a whole lot either.
Could you at least understand the statement in hiragana in my previous post?

Lucky you. I've been studying by myself from day one, learning Japanese in a completly random and haphazard fashion. From Guesseta Stone, (A more accurate reflection of Rosetta stones "learning" process) to picking up words from subbed anime, and hoping the translations are correct, (One sama means older sister, not dear sister, Maria watches over us stare ) to a Japanese grammer book, (Which is somewhat helpful, though its completely lost me on the verb stems part,) to whatever random word my Imoto (younger sister) happens to spit pout and be willing to translate. (Quick! Hurry up and write that one Down!) And the best part is, I now get to apply this wonderful learning process to Kanji! Oh what fun! Yeah, I SERIOUSLY wish I was attending a regular class where what you learn one minute is presumably related to what you learned the last, or what you'll learn next. Becuase, quite frankly, my method SUCKS!

Btw, demonic goth, since you're studying on your own now, any tips you would like to impart would be MOST helpful. xd

I live in Arizona, but my school doesn't offer Japanese; only Spanish. sad I want to do like an exchange-student program to visit Japan during High School. but I want to learn at least some rudimentary Japanese first, and so far, I've got diddly-squat.

So, I'm going into University (pretty much US-College here in Canada, we treat colleges differently up here as anyone can get into College here). I'm going to take Japanese as one of my courses, but the beginner's course is stuff that I probably know already: hiragana, katakana and probably a bit of kanji. As well as the particles. I was wondering should I take it so I have a better understanding of the particles and probably get a decent to high mark? It says "for people with no Japanese background". But it counts towards my gpa, should I just take it for the easy marks, and possibly learn some stuff that I might of missed?

I have no experience with how Japanese is like in university/college so bare with me if I sound arrogant in anyway, just want to know what I'll be signing up for.

My class is using Nakama as well. I don't think it's too bad.
The best book I've come across (for the way I learn, at least) is Japanese Demystified.

I took Japanese 1 and 2 in college.. now that I just graduated, F.I.T introduced a japanese minor x.x The classes were very good and the sensei was an older japanese woman who really taught well and helped outside of the class too. We used the Genki text book and I think it was really great--the cd was so funny.

You've heard that? The genki book is pretty good! My class loved it. A lot of people I've talked to love it too.. I've actually never heard anything bad about it. Good Luck! I knew more than level 1 too when I took it but there are always random things you miss so maybe you will learn a few things here and there. My sensei was actually Japanese so she threw in a lot of cultural tidbits and stuff you miss when studying alone sometimes.--and this way you'll get all A's and not have to study for the first semester XD