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This moment shall forever go down in the history of Fuwa --- and in our hearts. Hehe

I have selected Grieviious Thank you for the interests, everyone. I have your profiles saved in this thread (as long as it lives). If there's any update, I'll let you guys know first. @MetalUpa1014 I'm also generally interested in learning Mandarin Chinese. Maybe we can study that together sometime in the distant future.

There's a ton of procrastination going on. It's just not high on people's priority here. Many are just not interested in putting time (because that takes away time for something else). You have to be in a special mindset to seriously pursue a second language outside of College 101/102s. I don't think this phenomenon is special to America.

Thank you for the interest everyone. I'm not exactly experienced in "teaching" but I plan to continue to improve my methodology as I go. If I succeed, I plan to consistently do this here long term even after my first student(s).

Update: 03-26-15 Finished almost all "basic" grammar with Nosebleed and Keaton. Congratulations for graduating Nosebleed and ~ Keaton (Grieviious). lol..... Best of luck for your retention. Topics I covered can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ku-5p27HxMlWySQAqBvZygwhQp8Z1EHFY-oYE-KdBlg/edit#gid=0 Happy Year 2015 to you~ You can call me rains Do you have a strong motivation to learn Japanese? Can you spend a fair amount of time on learning? If you are a beginner and have interests in reading untranslated VNs and/or eventually becoming a part of the translation culture, then this thread might be for you! I’m looking to help someone become self-reliant in Japanese. That means being able to: independently seek out resources, form your own self-study sessions, and most importantly --- be able to read from VNs and learn from them. I will serve as the guidepost, giving you tips on what to tackle next. I will devote time to seeing your growth as long as you devote your own time to invest in learning Japanese. My approach will be purely on grammar. You’ll have to do all the vocab/kanji learning on your own. My goal for you is to get you to understand how Japanese sentences work. How do all the words relate to each other in the sentence. I’ll try to get you to learn from patterns and examples. From then on, you can try to read manga/VNs and put the piece of the puzzle yourself. Scheduling will be entirely reliant on you. You should create your own schedule. Try to learn it first, then come to me with questions and clarification. If I have time I can teach you the new topic myself. You can contact me anytime I’m free. It is imperative that you try to create a study routine --- keyword: routine. It needs to be a habit; it needs to be a lifestyle change. Ideally, if you want to learn Japanese fast, you’d want to have full immersion. You’d want to have your free time devoted to anything related to Japanese: be it Anime, JP Manga, Drama, TV shows, VNs, etc. If you have questions or interest, reply to this thread or pm me. Unfortunately, I am but only a single person so this offer is only for one or two people. Keep in mind I am Eastern Time Zone (EST)… My weekday schedule is EST evenings. What are your long term aspirations/goals? What are your short-term goals? Which VN would you like to read eventually? How much Japanese do you already know (if you do)? How much time can you devote? If you’re selected, I’d like the main correspondence to be through skype (rains90), it’s the best way (and the only way really..) you can contact me during my free time. If you’d like, I might also throw you in a very small group of other people who are trying to self-study. I’m planning to select someone by January 8th. Extra Sources: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/3801-good-vns-for-starting-reading-it-in-jap-with-help-from-mecab-and-jparser/ https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/2792-learning-japanese-useful-resources/?hl=%20japanese%20%20learning http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar Taekim’s grammar guide. I might base the grammar sequence on this. https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/7625-why-japanese-is-easier-to-learn-than-you-think/ Picture from a youtube video of Steve Kaufmann (a polyglot)

Most of the time teams will just peel and kite you and you won't be able to get sustained 3rd attacks on.

Whatever you do, it just takes repetition. Keep doing it over and over and it will stick on. I never really learned writing, but as for reading, i gradually understood stuff after running into patterns after patterns.

You're the only one who can stop you from pursuing your passion! If you're "very interested in learning" the language, it should follow up with an action, not a question. If you already have the motivation, there aren't much good excuses out there to not learn Japanese. If you have any questions, feel free to pm me.

type in 攻略(こうりゃく）.

Thanks for the congratulations everyone, and Big Thanks for OriginalRen for starting the event~. May we have good New Year's Resolutions and a productive year 2015! (not to forget the rest of the 2014)

I'm not dreaming, am I...... What a surprise; I was not expecting to win at all. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone!

If you have any japanese learning questions, just ask me~ I'll be glad to help! Welcome to the forums~

I shall join the fun! I am SO stone age that I had to have my friends put santa hat on my avatar... Happy Holidays Everyone!

Clannad had a lot of good bgms that moved me. In particular: gives a mysterious feel and the menu theme: Thanks for the heads up, Clephas

I suppose Imabi forces you to learn Vocab/Kanji first before you get to the advanced parts. I haven't really checked it out but does it use kanji even in the beginning? Either way I believe studying vocab/kanji is separate from learning grammar. Plus it might not really matter whether it's in kanji if you don't happen to know the vocab itself (even in Hiragana). Imabi could have recycled the easy vocabs over and over I suppose. Not knowing the Vocab/Kanji does hinder learning grammar, that's why my study regimen for JLPT goes like: Kanji ---> Vocab --> Grammar --> Listening + Reading. The Kanzen Master series for jlpt doesn't shy away in throwing kanji at you, even on the grammar booklet.

Going through Kaiji Season 2 at the moment. ZAWA ZAWA ZAWWWWAAA~

Great Thank you, and yourself?

This community is pretty tolerant. Don't worry about feeling weird in here. Enjoy

Check out: ONE https://vndb.org/v51 and Yume Miru Kusuri https://vndb.org/v44 None of these have RPG elements but they're focused on romantic development (along other themes).

I already have this game installed. I'll see if I can hop on this. ~

Hello fellow Filipino! I didn't know there were so many in here. I only expected like 1 or two. That's awesome. If you ever get stuck on what to read, pm me anytime.~ --Rains

Status update: I can't believe that it's already almost 6 months since I started this post. This is a status update on what transpired over the few months. Short-story is that both beginner and intermediate groups have splintered in terms of activities. First and foremost the status of the groups. This post would mainly be just from my point of view. I had gotten a job just a month after we had started the groups. And so I personally fell off with the activities. Intermediate room: I was technically the moderator of the room. I set the deadlines and try to foster discussion. We had good pacing with Kono Oozora even with my slow pacing. The participants in this room were too good (equal if not infinitely better than me). My pacing lagged way behind them, and I think it lost steam from then on. When I dropped out as moderator, the participants splintered off to VNs of their own interests. In retrospect, I think this was the best way for the group to run. If everyone is capable in reading on their own, there is no reason to stick to a common VN; there are a lot more benefits to the contrary. The topics that are brought up from each person's individual reading were interesting and can actually foster discussions about the language. Beginner's room: There were quite a ton of hiccups in the beginning in deciding a common VN. Eventually hey settled on KoiKishi and had *some* progress (?). Eventually it had also splintered to participants reading VNs of their interest. They had created a brilliant Google-worksheet that stemmed from the idea of piratepad --- or shared writing mini-blogs. "The aim is to foster discussion with people asking questions as they read through the VN, and with others trying to help clarify." I think that the structure and approach were bound to fail. I'm not the one to say what positive or negative things that people might have gotten from the experience (like uhh.. friends?). And needless to say, I'll let the participants post their feedback on their own. I am most interested in what they think worked, and what they think failed. Random stuff that I don't know why it's numbered 1. Intermediate group went on to help the beginners. 2. There is tremendous skill gap between the beginners. Making it hard to pace and coordinate VNs. 3. The VN voting system for beginners was not ideal in my opinion, as the beginners have less clue about which VNs are suitable for their level. 4. The project requires dedicated moderators, imo. 5. There is a natural inclination to splinter into VNs of own interest. Entropy in action. 6. I'm not sure how useful the discussions were, and I hope to get feedback on these. Personally, it was my intent to teach people How to learn Japanese, rather than just teaching them Japanese. I think I was partly successful in helping some of the beginners (I hope). For the groups, it was my intent to have them share information with each other and help guide each other to a plethora of resources for self-studying, and for them to motivate each other. The main idea I wanted them to get is that, self-learning Japanese is POSSIBLE. You do not need high-school or college classes to get started. You just need, Time, Motivation, and Resources. For the intermediate group: thank you very much for supporting others, answering questions when I couldn't and just your overall presence. To the participants of the beginner group: Thank you very much for sticking it for this long! You guys were very active in chat (off-topic or on-topic) and helped keep the room alive. Again, You guys really are the only ones who can really critique the approach. Feedbacks are always appreciated for the future! Participants roll: Pm me if I had missed you. Intermediate room: Bolverk, Mephisto, and Chronopolis. You guys were BEASTS! It's an honor to have you participate. Thanks a lot for helping the others. Beginner's room: Phonist; Zephy, Hoshi, Nam and their friends; Kud-The-Ushio-Sage and his friends; Dada; Mac; Gareth; and Dizzy for participating on the Google-spreadsheet logs. To my friends: Shiningbolt for moderating when I had dropped-off. Kael for participating. This won't happen without you guys and I hoped you gain something of value (like I said... friends? wink wink) throughout the past few months.

It's currently closed, but yea more activity in the summer~

@slamerz @molitar Add me on skype pls. "rains90" should be Jersey City, NJ. I will add you to the beginners rooms. I don't expect you two to be able to catch up with the current progress on KoiKishi. But I do suggest that you still try it or at least try another VN on your own. I'm mainly adding you then for discussion with others. Sharing/Asking for resources and questions. etc. At the moment there are other people that are in the process of learning hira/kata as well. @everyone else new who might be reading this: I'm capping people for the beginners level. Meaning I will not add you to the beginner's room due to its shear size. You can still add me on skype, and talk to me about learning japanese. If you still want to join the beginner's room, I'll have to put you on a waitlist. Intermediate room is still open and we're reading Kono Oozora.