まいにちね ねません

こんにちは

This class is really starting to get hard. I feel like I don't sleep at all anymore. きの　わたしは　ごぜん　しちじ　から　ごせん　くうじ　まで　にます。

Last semester I had a physics class that was really kicking my butt. Then a few of us from class got together and formed a study group and it really saved my life.

Would anyone be interested in doing that for this class? I was thinking of getting together once a week for an hour or two (or more if a bunch of people want to).

I'm free before and after class on Tuesday, and after class on Thursday.

There's a form you can fill out and you can view everyone's availability.

Form: http://bit.ly/1a9g3a

Results: http://bit.ly/12x1Qy

Kind of amazing

This has nothing to do with Japanese but it's too awesome not to post

Guestbook Issues

Hi everyone,

I can't type hiragana at work so this will have to be an English post.

It seems the guestbook at the bottom of the page doesn't like Japanese characters very much. They all come out as these weird unicode symbols. Thanks to Melissa and Hein for leaving comments, but I can't see what they are (Q_Q). The regular comments should be able to show the hiragana without any trouble so I'm probably just going to get rid of the guestbook.

Why Japanese?

I get asked that question a lot. The short answer, of course, is:
"I don't know. Why not?"

A better answer is that I'm probably only going to get to study a foreign language at Columbia this one time and I don't want to waste it on something like Spanish, which I could probably learn anywhere; most of my family speak it as their first language.  

I've actually tried to learn Japanese before. I don't know why, I've always just wanted to. It probably has something to do with Anime and video games,but it's also Japanese music, and Japanese history. I definitely want to go to Japan and it would be great if I wasn't just
a dumb American touristwhen I'm there. Plus the language just sounds cool when people are speaking it.

I have some of those Teach Yourself Japanese books, I've tried Rosetta Stone. You can only do so much with that stuff though. What I need is a real class.

So here I am, ready to learn!*

*May not actually be me in the picture

Seriously though, there's no part of this class I'm not excited about (except for maybe the tests). I want to learn the language, have fun, and maybe make some friends along the way. I especially need to have more Japanese conversations because putting everything together has been a challenge. I know what the words mean, but I don't always know exactly how to put them together. If anyone wants to have a study group, I'm up for it.

That's about it, I have an appointment with a textbook now so I'll see you in class.じゃ　また

はじめまして

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