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Konnichiwa! My name is Alyson (SN is Dayanaria) you can call me what you want (just no bad names, xp ) haha... I'm 22 years old, I'm majoring in Computer Graphics and minoring in English (I just switched my minor from Art this semester, heh sweatdrop ) My Japanese is kinda limited since I've only ever been able to learn online and what I pick up from watching anime fansubs, haha... And yes, I'm a rabid anime fan, haha...

While I wouldn't mind taking vacations to Japan, I'm not sure if I'd want to live there, simply because of the fact that all of my family is here in the states whee I live in (very rainy right now) California, I like to laugh alot (consequently I use 'lol', 'haha', and 'heh' too often, but I really am laughing in RL, heh) and I tend to ramble waaayyyy too much, lol...

Egh, that's all I can think of right now, but domo arigato for letting me into the guild! heart blaugh

Konnichiwa to akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! (Can I say like that?)
I'm a 19 year old student. I've been interested in japanese language for a couple of years now already and been learning it myself but not with great success. But last autumn I started going to japanese lessons. Now I've been learning a little better. I can already read and write hiragana and I almost remember all katakana. I can read some kanji, but very few.

The things that first gave me interested in Japan, it's culture and language were manga and anime. Now I'm generally interested about everything possible in Japan.

I hope I can someday go visit the country.

こんにちは　みなさん。 はじめまして。 I guess that i haven't posted here yet. I could have sworn that i did, but i guess not. So...about me. My name is Winona-Sioux,　I'm 16, not currently in school (i'm in the process of transfering to a private school evil ), and extremely bored. I'm curently sitting here with a kitten on my shoulder, with nothing really to do. I took a year of Japanese two years ago. I have always been fascinated with Japan and the Japanese language. I am learning as much japanese as I can online. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone, but i don't post very often, so it may take a while. Well, gotta go.　さよなら。

Heya!! biggrin O.K I'm 14. I'm from London but I live in Northern Ireland. I have always loved to go to Japan! It just seems so much better there.
This the first guild I've joined on Gaia... biggrin YAY!! blaugh
They don't show alot of anime where I live but I've seen Sailor Moon when I was little & I loved it!! Shame they cancelled it... stare

Umm... *waves* bye. wink

Hello all (Konnichiwa Minasan),

How are you? (ogenki desu ka?)

My username is Shisno but my real name is Kelly (watashi no yu-za namae wa shizuno keredo watashi no hontoo no namae wa keri- desu).

I have been studying Japanese by private tutoring for 2 years now and before I had my tutor I did a year of study at highschool. Although I don't claim to know it all (as I'm so very far from it and my above attempt at Japanese in romanji probably needs drastic correction... sweatdrop ) I'm willing to help where I can and hopefully learn much, much more!

I'm 18 years old (watashi wa jyuu hassai desu). I live in Australia and I wish to visit Japan one day but so many things at home have been keeping me from going. I have 3 Japanese friends who are very helpful when it comes to practice and colloquial speech help and I wish I had them from the get go as it would have been so much better when first learning (I recommend having Japanese friends! I just got Japanese manga for my reading pleasure from one! whee )

I've never been one to think of the future so I don't have any plans on a job but many have complemented me on learning nihongo and that I'll one day rake it in with a really good job as a translater/teacher of English. However, I never had that in mind when I began as I simply loved Japan and I love langauges (my grandfather was a linguist though he was more into the European langauges rather than the Asian langauges) so I simply wanted to learn not for any other gain then the joy and that I would be able to meet new people and learn new things.

I'm sure I'll enjoy my stay here at 'The Japanese Student Guild' and thanks for reading my psychotically long introduction of myself and for understanding my laziness of using romanji instead of the actual Japanese characters.

Thanks again and it's nice to meet you all,

Bai Bai

Shisno

Hello. My real name is Joe. I am 23 years old and have been trying to learn Japanese for quite some time. I have the Rosetta Stone software as well as numerous books and I think I have just finally finished memorizing all the Kana.

It is hard trying to teach myself. I had the opportunity for classes over the summer but due to conflicts it was cancelled and postponed until next summer. But I hope to go to Japan within the next two years...sometime after I graduate in May.

I am a student of theatre, my major being performance. I will be attending stunt school at the International Stunt School in Seattle in June. I love anime, manga, the music, culture and martial arts of Japan.

Hey. I'm Rachael. I've been studying Japanese for..ok let me count...nearly 7 years. I'm 18 and live in the UK. Can't really think of anything else to say as an introduction really. sweatdrop

Hi, I'm malificia. I'll be twenty this year but uuurgh... I'll try not to think too much about that sweatdrop

Mmm. I was first introduced to Japan and all things Japanese via anime and manga and since then I've learnt about lots of other japanese things such as the culture, music and such but I guess above all I just love love love...

Ramen and manga 4laugh

I've been taking japanese classesup at uni for about two years now, but sadly this semester will be my last so I'm currently looking for ways to continue learning japanese and upkeep what I've learnt so far.

So yeah. I guess I don't have a whole lot to say about myself, so that's about it. But it's great to find a place where everyone shares a similar interest and can all learn together ^_^ Thanks a bunch for listening to my rambly nonsense.