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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:25 pm
X__Vanilla__X Hello, my name is Nekura.
I am a half Japanese girl who lives in the US, and am very ingrained to Japaneses traditional and pop culture. I am a wealth of knowlage, so feel free to ask me things ^^.
I play 3 traditional instruments from japan, can perform traditional Tea ceremony, and am a huge fan of Japanese street fashion, jrock, and pop culture.
Konban'wa, minna-san! Hajememashite Yuuri Nekura desu, dozo ryoshiku.
Onamae'wa nan desu ka?
Feel free to ask me anything ^^
Atashi to issho ni kite kureru? xP Of course I kid. Welcome to the guild, all of you, and I hope to see you all enlighten and inform each other about Japan, and it's culture. *for those wondering, what I said, basically means, "Will you go out with me?"*
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:43 pm
Hello I'm Christi, 13 years old and on to the next. I'm just learning Japanese thats why I came here (yay) I'm a beginner, so I don't know that much.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:10 pm
Hello! I'm IITsuki. I have been studying Japanese for awhile now and am in class still. I am 26 and just learning how to use adjectives. I look forward to seeing what goes on here!!
doozo yoroshiku
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:34 pm
Konnichiwa.
I am Akime. I love anything and everything Japanese ^_^.
I collect Japanese dolls and love the clothes. I hope to learn a lot about Japan and hope to find a tutor to help me learn the language. I am so excited to start this guild. I am interested in Japanese art work to... ^_^
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:09 pm
Ano...I don't think my real name is necessary but you can call me Naraku. No I'm not an Inuyasha fan...
Anyway...I'm currently 16 years old(for some reason I thought I was 13 for a moment) I've been interested in Japanese culture since I was little.
I started off loving anime and manga and have developed a drawing style that is similar but doesn't take after any specific one. I then moved on to Japanese music, J-rock to be more particular, and practically all the music I listen to is Japanese. Japanese music got me into becoming more serious about playing music as well as getting me to seriously consider learning Japanese.
I've now been studying Japanese for 2 years and I go to classes every Saturday morning and try my best to fit in some Japanese studies into my day school schedule.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:11 am
Hey I'm ih8u, no, I don't really hate you, but I changed my name when I was mad at my brother and it was my last chance, so yeah. Anyway I'm 11 and know some of the basics of Japanese. I try to study for as long as I can before my brother comes in to bother me. Well... that's all you really need to know so...hi! mrgreen
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:10 am
Hi, I'm Donganoid. I'm "thirteen," but I'm actually eleven. (My old account got caught, so beware, leavemealone!) I love Japanese pop culture and I'm studying Japanese at the moment. Anime and manga got me into Japan, and so I like to draw manga style (go to the art arena to find an example). Just last year I began to collect cute little Japanese dolls called pinky:st. I'm now obsessed with them and am an active member at the pinky forums at pinky-street.com. I try to learn everything I can about culture, but I have minimal resources, so I probably don't know that much.
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:11 am
Oh, I failed to mention that I love Japanese music, especially Jpop. Jrock too. My pink ipod shuffle has been nicknamed my "jpod."
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:48 pm
Hi everyone!
My name is Kaya, or you can call me Whit (for my real name, Whitney). I'll also answer to Mai, so pretty much pick your favorite. biggrin
Let's see... I'm, of course, a big fan of anime and manga (particularly the Japanese version of One Piece, since the American was so badly-done), as well as video games. But I've been interested in the culture of Japan since I was about eight or nine years old, and I've been studying up on it and slowly but surely learning the language ever since.
I'm 20 years old, and I'm a sophomore at a university in the southern U.S. I've been taking Japanese for four semesters (two years), and I also took Japanese Culture last spring. I'm looking forward to meeting some Japanese practice partners here! 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:08 pm
Hey... um... haha I'm Yukikodomo, usually I'm called Mia... or Dork... or Maria... or whatever... ^.^ You're choice, I'll answer to practically anything, as long as I know what it is.
I've been studying Japanese very lightly for about two years now, working off random sites (random sites that I've checked their honesty) and a few pages of notes I got from an exchange friend of mine from Japan. At first it was just like, cool, I know a little Japanese! But now I'm getting so deeply interested in both the language and culture. Along with Japanese I'm studying Spanish (in school, so much heavier courses than what I give myself) and I'm hopefully beiginning French next year. In college I plan on majoring in linguistics and I hope to be a translator as my career afterwards. ^.^
I'm fourteen presently, but will be fifteen in a year, so I can finally get a job and buy some language learning programs to help me. Until then, I've only got random opportunities at classes offered at other schools or a few people to mooch words off of.
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:22 pm
Hello, everyone! biggrin You can just call me Raikira. I'm fifteen and I live in America. Some people think I act ten... for some reason, so I'm also used to being treated that way. sweatdrop rofl I don't really mind though.
Anyway, I barely know any Japanese but would be very happy to learn. I guess I started trying to learn when I started writing Naruto fanfiction. It's just a hobby of mine to learn foreign languages. biggrin Unfortunately, however, I'm a totally slow learner. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:34 am
Konbanwa, minna-san. Watashi wa Louis desu, finrandojin desu. I have been studying Japanese on my own every now and then, but I'm just a beginner. In couple of months I'm a high school graduate, and one of my future plans is to study Japanese and Japan's culture (it's quite hard to get into the university though). Anyways, I'm looking forward to get to know this forum and its members, not to mention the mysterious world of Nippon. o_O.
Yoroshiku. mrgreen
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:10 am
Hey there! ^^ My name's Morgan and I'm seventeen years old, living in wonderful Pittsburgh PA. (That wasn't entirely sarcastic, I do like my city.)
You know, I actually had Pimsleur's 'Learn Japanese in Ten Days' program, though I kinda stopped after a couple; I was off visiting family. I don't know why I didn't get back into it because I was actually doing very well, and I'm going to see if I can unearth it and..wait, I even saw another language program I have that includes Japanese.
This will be my third language in progress, being that I'm learning French and German right now. I'm about to take the Oral Proficiency in French which is, essentially, a test to see how well I could properly survive in a French speaking country. My German is nowhere near as good as my French, being that I'm learning it on my own and only just started.
As for Japanese I know even less! I know baby words; konnichiwa, arigato. And that r's sound like d's. (Something I got a good chuckle out of when an anime freak at our school bragged at how well he spoke the language, proceeding to immediately mess up his second or third word, arigato. whee )
I'm sorry, I must have typed the longest introduction you've gotten here at JSG, so I'll wrap things up. This looks like a great guild to get my Japanese skills worked on. heart
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:49 am
Hi.. My name is Mazin and I am 17 years old.
I love everything about Japan and I don't know why! xp
I have tried to learn the language by myself since last year and I have been learning like.. REALLY slow!
I stopped learning it for sometime now but I remember some of the words...
So I might be able to regain my memory of it quickly! xd
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