Your ability at Japanese

[The_Fourth]

Ive also learn most of my Japanese through animes. And my pronunciation is getting better.

[tensai]

i would say im inbetween decent to no idea, because i just started
i do understand the basics, and i actually borrowed a couple of books from my friend who already took a year of japanese
im gonna take japanese courses once the fall quarter begins though
right now im trying to learn the basics and try to write hiragana and katakana
i know all of hiragana and the vowels of katakana so far, but its useless unless i know more japanese vocabulary[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
kanji is gonna be hard, but im chinese and my parents know how to read/write it, so the translation is easy but saying it would be a different thing

[Goingin]

I didn't know any Japanese at all before i got into the world of Anime
The anime (and ofcourse the fansubbers!) teached me some japanese words and expressions

Gonna do a course in the basics of japanese soon, want to understand and speak it a bit to get along when i go to Japan next year [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

[Tofu #2]

I just started the Pimsleurs course as well as a book that I bought. I can count.

[Shinji Ikari]

I learn about 1 new word for every 5 episodes or so of an anime i watch. I've watched a lot of anime during this year and last year (when i got my ADSL), and i learn to see connections between words, but i can never really put my finger on what i have learned, i just understand it sometimes when i see it...

The first word i learned of japanese was sayonara (i think), and that was when i was a mere child... I don't even know from where i did learn it, i just understood the word without even having any direct connection with anything to do with japanese at such a young age.

The first word i learned from anime was baka which was used very very much in Sailor Moon [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] And now, the more i learn, the faster i learn because i easier can make connections between words now... But this doesn't mean that i've practically learned how to speak japanese, i'm mearly at the beginning of my learning. Some day i will be able to speak, type and understand japanese [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

[Aeon]

The only words I know are from anime and they are the simple things like sorry and the phrase they say before they eat.

[Sensei Jon]

Same for me as well. I only know Japanese from the animes I watch so I know only a few words or phrases, but I would love to learn the entire language.

[Sharigan_User]

Originally posted by: The_Fourth
Ive also learn most of my Japanese through animes. And my pronunciation is getting better.

And like Goingin said

I didn't know any Japanese at all before i got into the world of Anime

Thats when I started to bother to learn Japanese. I always wanted too though, but sometimes, you miss some things becuz you're too busy reading the subtitles. I know most common words that I can understand without readding the subtitles, like why, what, thanks, and some sentences, like are you ok, or i understand. But when it comes to words that you wouldn't use in everyday chit-chat, then im clueless. But sometimes, i can pick up a few words.

[Himura_san]

nihongo hanashimasen.

[ohpeekaboo]

cute response himura_san, really 0_o

basically know enough to read manga as long as i have my trusty electronic jap dictionary for kanji reference (thank god they provide the readings!)

[Himura_san]

Originally posted by: ohpeekaboo
cute response himura_san, really 0_o

I aim to please! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Tofu #2]

i can say one phrase, Basu wa doko desu ka?