Vocabulary

I need a place to put this because my notebooks keep getting lost. >.>,

Entrance	いりぐち	入り口
Population	じんこう	人口
Exit	でぐち	出口
Doorway	とぐち	戸口

Girl	じょし	女子
Queen	じょおう	女王
Princess	おうじょ	王女
Woman's Rights	じょけん	女権

Please	ください	下さい
Underground	ちか	地下
Younger	としした	年下
Downtown	したまち	下町

Construction	こうさく	工作
Engineering	こうがく	工学
Industry	こうぎょう	工業
Engineer	こうがくしゃ	工学者

One	いち	一
One Hundred Million	いちおく	一億
First Thing	いちばんめ	一番目
First Place	いちい	一位

Success!

So, I now have a kindle! I now have a few nice little japanese apps!

Human Japanese Lite (I will get the full version once i get 500 more coins!)
Anki (Droid Versions)
Kabuto (Not sure how I feel about this one yet)
JISHOP (Really like how I can use this to find things via Radicals.)
Kanji Recognizer (Perfect for me when I can't find things via Radicals. Just Draw out the kanji and hope I did the strokes right. It also shows you the stroke order when you do find it!)


Anki so far is my favorite because its a flash card type.  I have had it on my laptop but with other things I would be doing I would forget to bring it up and go through my 20 cards a day. I need

Kanji Recognizer is my second favorite! Once you find something you can ADD it yo Anki! You can draw out the kanji, and once you find it you can check the stroke order, see the codes for it and more. It's really nice.

With these apps, I will do my best to build my vocabulary. <3 

Today's Learnings

Today, my dear readers, I made a new friend thanks to the Language Exchange. Junya-kun was very nice. We spent most of our time talking about which anime we liked. That was a lot of fun, mainly because a lot of the anime I mentioned were girly. He spoke in some Japanese which I somewhat understood, and I also got some new words to study. I kept saying えーっと a lot too. I am sure I made a big fool of myself during this time but I had a lot of fun. I remember him saying that he was from Osaka and asked if I knew Osaka. I know about Osaka because of an Anime character named Heiji. From there he asked where I was from and I gave my little joke about Ohio. Ohayou sounds like Ohio so I am from the state of good morning! During my time talking to Junya-kun, my cat decided to be obnoxious! At one point Junya had asked if I had a kid! When I explained that it was my cat, he laughed and said my cat was cute. My response to that was,　私の猫はだめです！(my cat is bad).  We talked about music, movies, and I once again got interested in Doraemon and need to find away to see it.  Thanks to him I even found out about a good song from one of my favorite artists that I didn't know existed! Next time I should ask him to recommend some anime and movies. <3

Here is the vocabulary list I made from the conversation:

ちがう  【違う】 chigau  (to differ (from);  to vary)
おもしろい  【面白い】 omoshiroi   (interesting)
いちばんさうしょの 【一番最初の】　ichibansaishono  (First Season)
おんがく 【音楽】 ongaku (music)
いっしゅうかん  【一週間】isshuukan   (one week)
おきにいり  【お気に入り · 御気に入り】 okiniiri   (favorite)

Now to take time to study these. Also a guild mate of mine and I will be study buddies. So now I have someone to quiz me and I'll quiz him in return. Started him on Japanese Pod 101's Kantan Kana series for the kana.

Conversation Success!

So I play a MMO called Lucent Heart. The english version shut down so the US players have to play the japanese version.

To find a conversation partner, I sent random people whispers: 英語はわかりますか？ (do you under stand english?)
I got ignored once, got a response the second time which was, 分からないません。 (I don't under stand)

Third time is the charm. I don't understand the kanji for his user name so i asked him. he said 'GIN' 吟  so 吟さん and I partied up. we talked mostly in broken english, and a few of my attempts of japanese. one was "私はたすけです！” which i was trying to say "i'll help" he didn't correct me so I guess I did alright. after doing a few quests, I took notice that it was past the time I go to bed. So I said "私はねむりです。　ごめんなさい。 (I'm getting sleepy. I'm sorry)  and he understood! he said 'SLEEPY?' I explained in English that it was 9PM in the US where apparently it is 10AM in Tokyo Japan. We said next time we're both online, we'll chat more and said おやすみなさい to each other. Well his response was with out the なさい part. And I logged off.

Upon writing this blog entry I find that I made an utter fool of myself but am proud I found someone to chat with. Maybe one day I can convince him to get skype. I have reached one of my goals today, which was to make a friend who'd help me learn. And in the process I got to see a LOT of kanji.


Well to my non-existant readers. Demonskid / おにこ / 鬼子  is signing off for the night.

おやすみなさい！！！

Goals and Other Things

It is time I wrote down my goals. Baby steps are the way to learn Japanese, so I am going to write things down, step buy step. I just hope the shiny things don't distract me.

Goal List

1. Learn 5 kanji a week. 
2. Practice writing the kanji and kana I've already learned daily.
3. Learn the different te forms.
4. Learn the difference of polite and inpolite ways of speaking.
5. Find a Teacher/Study Partner
6. Practice Speech.

Learned Kanji　(35/2000)

月　火　日　水　川　山　金　土　木　林　森　女　子　鬼　雨　私　一　二　三　四　五　六　七　八　九　十　千　百　猫　犬　王　玉　星　空　花

Programs

Anki
zKanji
Human Japanese

Websites

www.JapanesePod101.com
www.TextTofu.com
http://tangorin.com
http://jisho.org
http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/jis/skip?SASE=/cgi-bin/j-e/jis/kanjidoc
http://www.realkana.com
http://learn-japanese.info/

Japanese; Reasons and Excuses

So today, I was bored and while searching for things about Rosetta Stone, I found a youtube video that pretty much listed reasons NOT to get the program. I found it funny and true and decided to watch this guy's other videos. After splitting my gut open from laughing at his videos, I decided to take a look at one of his sites. TextFugu.com

His list says to write out the reasons I want to learn Japanese and the things that are holding me back. So I am going to start with Why I want to learn and what all got me started and the story behind that.

Why do I want to Learn Japanese?

I want to learn Japanese to become a translator. A Translator for people to communicate when needed, and to translate manga professionally. I also wish to visit Japan some day and want to actually make friends in their own language and possible help them learn mine.

What started you on this?

When I was 13 an anime aired and I fell in love with the Theme Songs. The music and how things sounded
so beautiful and I was enraptured. So yes, when I was younger my reasons were "Because anime is so cool." but that has changed over the years.

My Excuses For Not Studying:

1. I am in the process of saving up money for a premium Japanese Pod Account.
2. I keep getting distracted and it is a VERY bad habit that I am working on. (My Main Problem)
3. The Area I live in does not have any Japanese programs near me that are cheap.
4. I am overly shy so talking to new people scares me and causes my anxiety to rage.


So Here is my list of reasons and excuses!

About Me

Hello all I am what is known as Demonskid.

I am your average non employed American Female who enjoys, gaming, anime, manga, karaoke, drawing, and learning the Japanese Language. This is just the short version though, let me get to the longer version along with what will be contained in this blog of mine. Just remember, I am not good at spelling or grammar, so please don't comment about them. I get tired of hearing about it from people that are close to me. I don't need it from people I never met.

Being one of the average Americans, I have a condition that we all like to call ADDOS. Attention-Deficit Disorder Oh Shiny! (self diagnose, when I was younger mom never had me checked)  Meaning I get distracted VERY easily and have hard times concentrating on things. Let me just say, just like my old live journal.. this blog is probably going to be forgotten about for a few months to a year before I remember I have it and post in it again.

This blog will be home to many things. Many, many things from random rants that house little to no fact and are probably wrong in 5-7 areas. Things about or happen in the games I play. The newest anime I have or want to watch, and possibly rants about friends who spoil it for me. The Manga series that just came out an I got my hands on. Something silly or super cute my cat has done that I just HAVE to post. A place to host my wish/check of lists (mainly manga, anime, and other asiany things). And also, can't forget my progress on the language I am attempting to Self Study, Japanese.

While I did say I am unemployed,  I do dedicate a good deal of my time to mod for an avatar site called Trisphee. It is a job, and at times a very hard one, but I don't get paid for it. The reason I do this job is that, I love the site and I love  helping the users when ever I can.

I am the leader of the guild 'Caged' which plays a few games. We're a fairly new guild out there and are concentrating on Ragnarok Online 2, Lime Odyssey, and Lucent Heart (when it gets re-released in america, right now some of us are playing the Japanese Version).

A few questions have probably popped up in your head about me. Are you an Otaku? Why are you trying to learn Japanese? What got you into Japanese? Why do you have to post about your cat? And, Are you really a girl?

Let me answer those now.

Are you an Otaku?
I do call my self this, but do I go about saying "OMG that is so KAWAII!" with a squeal? No I don't. Instead I go, "Uwaaah! kore wa kawaii!" in a non squeal voice. Though I might squeal if its something I really like. When it comes to choosing between eng dubs and jap with subs, I honestly don't care. Unless the voices don't seem to match the characters looks and personality, or they change the personality completely, then I care and will choose the original Japanese dub with fansubs. I also do tend to correct people when they pronounce Japanese words wrong.. but they have to be Otaku's them selves. My one friend pronounced manga as 'mainga' and I was like "dude, you claim to love the Japanese language, and you correct me when I say English words wrong so.. SAY THE JAPANESE WORD RIGHT!"

Why are you trying to learn Japanese?
Because I think the language and culture are beautiful and I wish to visit Japan one day.

What got you interested in Japanese?
When I was about 13 years old, an Anime (yes an anime) called InuYasha aired on tv. The theme song "Change the World" by V6 played and I loved it. And then after the show was over the ending theme played and I fell in love with the language. 

Why do you have to post about your cat?
Because I love him and think he is the most adorable, annoying, beautiful creature in the world.

Are you really a Girl?
Hey if you don't believe me, that's your problem. I do enjoy the reaction of new guild members from my Guild Caged, or new Staff Members on Trisphee. They all take a look at my Online Handle and think, "Oh, Demon.. its a dude" and then hear my voice and freak out. I get a real kick out of it. So yea, it's up to you if you want to believe that I'm a girl or not.


I think that this is good for an About Me intro. I think.