I actually cracked open my Manga folder today for the first time in a long while. I remember when it use to be so organized, the titles of the works with the names of the scanlation groups in brackets to the side. Not that they don't still have their titles but who knows how many chapters I am behind on all of them by now. The only reason I opened it today was to read a good chunk of chapters from one of my favorites. It is usually scanlated very slowly but apparently the group has got it together. Nice treat. That paired with watching some anime and listening to anime songs has triggered that hunger in me to learn Japanese.
I spent about thirty minutes or so going through hiragana on site that shows the symbols individually like flash cards and allows you to type in what they are. It was a shaky start and I am still having difficulty with a few of them, but I was fairly impressed by how much I remembered. I know katakana will be more difficult since I spent less time on it that hiragana and it is more blocky and hard to create image memories with like I have with the hiragana characters.
I looked up in there were any Japanese classes here, and while I didn't find anything as formal as a classroom setting, there is a group of people who hang out and watch movies, play games, and speak Japanese. They say it is for all levels of Japanese speakers, but from browsing their site a bit it seems most people have a background of some kind with the language. I don't know if I would go so far as to meet up with people, but it is true that I have the time to properly dedicate myself to something like learning a new language or taking on a hobby. It is interesting to be continually reminded of this the longer I am out of school. The limitlessness is at times overwhelming as well.
I spent about thirty minutes or so going through hiragana on site that shows the symbols individually like flash cards and allows you to type in what they are. It was a shaky start and I am still having difficulty with a few of them, but I was fairly impressed by how much I remembered. I know katakana will be more difficult since I spent less time on it that hiragana and it is more blocky and hard to create image memories with like I have with the hiragana characters.
I looked up in there were any Japanese classes here, and while I didn't find anything as formal as a classroom setting, there is a group of people who hang out and watch movies, play games, and speak Japanese. They say it is for all levels of Japanese speakers, but from browsing their site a bit it seems most people have a background of some kind with the language. I don't know if I would go so far as to meet up with people, but it is true that I have the time to properly dedicate myself to something like learning a new language or taking on a hobby. It is interesting to be continually reminded of this the longer I am out of school. The limitlessness is at times overwhelming as well.
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