So who's learning Japanese?

In my first year of High School, I've had a Japanese class that spanned all four years. I moved halfway through the first yeah, so I forgotten the incredibly small amount I knew. I tried to pick it up, but I failed and tried again. It's been a year since my last attempt, and i'm just going to try again.

I know a few words, but I'm not going to even attempt to learn it. Why? Because it is too damn difficult! If I was younger (as it would be easier to learn and my phoneme vocabulary was still intact), I would have loved to learn another language.

But lets face it, I hardly know Spanish or Latin, and I took the time (for college and JHS, respectively) to learn them.

Ah, Japanese, where the difficulty of learning it increases exponentially the more you learn it. Learning all the Kanji and vocabulary is almost impossible so I recommend you atleast stick to the grammar.

Good topic!

I spent all four years of college studying Japanese. I also spent a semester abroad in Osaka. However, with no one to really practice with in America, I've lost most of my advanced kanji writing/comprehension skills. My grammar was really drilled into me, so that has remained mostly in tact with my vocabulary coming in 2nd place.

So I'm not fluent, but once I warm up, I can understand a general conversation and pick up context for the more advanced things. And if I don't understand, I know how to ask to repeat or for meaning.

As a side note, I've recently joined Gaia Online and joined a guild that is all about studying Japanese and practicing with one another. It's been quite a refresher for me so far. =]

Every time i get a Fortune Cookie I take a look at the "learn * EDIT Chinese *" line on the back and find some useless word that I'll never use in English, let alone Chinese. That's my extent of learning anything close to Japanese...

p.s. thanks Nina, total brain fart

after the first year? I don't really know how long it's been, but I have begun to learn a few words.

@sidriss (my girlfriend) has learned quite a bit more than me and now I'm learning from her as well.

I think the most important thing for learning any language is to have other people who you can converse with so you can practice. It also makes it FUN! ^_^

Oh! Me! I'm learning Japanese. I have learned to read hiragana and katakana but I understand almost nothing when I try to read a Japanese doraemon manga I got.

I would maybe sometime in the future cuz Japanese is awesome. Also cuz I would need to know Japanese in order to get past episode 110 of hikaru no go, (because they put a stupid copyright law on translating it) Yeah, they have a couple iphone apps dedicated to learning Japnese, but I get bored too quickly.

OMG!!!! IT'S A SERIES OF SQUARES!!!... the writing i mean... heh.