Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
What about my links? You ingrate.

My high school didn't offer Japanese, as I imagine few in the US would, so I wasted 5 years on French. And all those suckers who took Spanish because it would be needed in the real world more and more? They can't remember more than 5 phrases.

My personal view is that I want fewer foreigners learning Japanese and immigrating to Japan. For visits its ok, but I'm against them living and working there and badly influencing the people and culture. Long live the Republic!
Sorry for not patting you

In a way I understand that you don't want Japan to be "spoiled" by other cultures.
However it has always been influenced no matter how.
But I guess their main problem is fertility and the fact that the population is getting older
everyday.

But it should'nt stop anyone for learning the language/culture as much as they can.
And don't be afraid, I think I wouldn't be able to live in Japan for many details are just incompatible with what I seek.

Maybe somewhere deep in the country where you meet almost no one... but in reality I wonder if such places exist. Plus I don't really need to go that far (distance, language and culture wise) to find such a place.

I guess you'll despise me for writing that I would like to learn japanese as a personal challenge first, as ways of maybe meeting "open minded" japanese and also for personal confort... being able to read and understand anything japanese (including, but not limited to anime)

Regarding the casio device, it's interresting. thanks.