Day 3: Japanese Learning Communities

I've been looking to join some sort of Japanese language learning community. There are several forums that I'm considering becoming active in, and then there's also this thing I found called Smart.fm . It's a study tool where people create vocabulary lists, etc. It seems like Anki, but more social to me. I think it's amazing how many Japanese language resources there are out there on the internet today. There are also a lot of sites for penpals through Skype/IM. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable enough to talk to a native Japanese speaker or even just talking to any English-speaking stranger over Skype as I'm a bit self-conscious. However, in the future, I'll consider using these tools to help further my learning and exposure to Japanese.

Day 2: Kanji Writing Practice

Yup, so that's my kanji practice. I'll probably get around to obtaining proper, gridded paper, but for now I just doodled the kanji on a 4x6 index card.

お箸 - おはし
茶碗 - ちゃわん
時計 - とけい
お風呂 - おふろ
部屋 - へや

In the future I might consider doing more and/or adding it to another list on Anki to test my writing skills and skills and remember how to write the characters. I'm still new to Anki so maybe there's a way to change the front and back sides? I'll have to look into it.

Day 2: Learn Japanese with Beb and Alex

I started off with the first lesson which was fairly basic. お早うございます, 今日は, 今晩は, and お元気ですか were the main points of the first lesson.

The second lesson was about "basic questions" which was, again, very basic. 初めまして, です, エゴの先鋭, どこから北の.

They also talked about jobs such as:
お医者 - おいしゃ doctor
弁護士 - べんごし lawyer
学生 - がくせい student
会社員 - かいしゃいん office worker

I'll be adding all the words to Anki so that I can become familiar with the kanji.