Are you learning Japanese?

[Columbine]

That sound like a dull thud of a cranium against a brick wall?

That would be me.

And the 2kyuu.

[Kufufunofu]

i'm not..
gave up last yr ><

[Deviruu]

I started just a tid bit ago again. I started when I was 12, gave up, started again when I was 16, gave up and now learning due to plans with my sister for six years in the future.

Only problem is there's no one who can speak Japanese around here. My high school had a choice to choose from for this upcoming year. Mandarin or Japanese. We all got to vote. Well, Mandarin won. So no help there whatsoever.

Currently I'm still using My Japanese Coach via DSi and last night started writing all the lessons down in a notebook to study.

I try to put a lot of effort in to it. Unfortunately, I never did this with my school work.

[JustinATTACK]

Originally Posted by Deviruu

I started just a tid bit ago again. I started when I was 12, gave up, started again when I was 16, gave up and now learning due to plans with my sister for six years in the future.

Only problem is there's no one who can speak Japanese around here. My high school had a choice to choose from for this upcoming year. Mandarin or Japanese. We all got to vote. Well, Mandarin won. So no help there whatsoever.

Currently I'm still using My Japanese Coach via DSi and last night started writing all the lessons down in a notebook to study.

I try to put a lot of effort in to it. Unfortunately, I never did this with my school work.

They chose Mandarin?
Wtf, who would choose that over Japanese?

Lame highschool kids.

[bELyVIS]

Originally Posted by JustinATTACK

They chose Mandarin?
Wtf, who would choose that over Japanese?

Lame highschool kids.

Maybe they chose it because Mandarin is probably the most widely used language in the world. There are a lot of Chinese people.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by bELyVIS

Maybe they chose it because Mandarin is probably the most widely used language in the world. There are a lot of Chinese people.

There are also quite a few more Mandarin speakers in the USA than Japanese.

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by JustinATTACK

They chose Mandarin?
Wtf, who would choose that over Japanese?

Lame highschool kids.

Living here, I know that Chinese is more widely spoken than Japanese. Richmond just seem to have more Chinese immigrants than say Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese, even though they do exist here of course. Taking Chinese isn't too surprising, especially since it's a widley used business language, just like English.

That aside, when I was in high school, Japanese wasn't even an option. They had it, but not enough students took it, so they got rid of the class. They teach it now, though.

The colleges around me didn't teach Japanese either. Virginia Commonwealth University still doesn't teach and the main community college here teaches stuff like Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese (aside from the usual, Spanish, French, etc.), but no Japanese. Crazy, right?

UoR teaches Japanese now and do exchanges, so that's cool, but still seems that Chinese would come first around here.