don@t worry be happy. i'm living in japan for almost 5ys and i can tell you that you can use both chopsticks @ fork @ knife.

well it's not bad considering we were both 12 years old at the time
and he's a lefty and pretty much had to teach himself x]

(i was pretty sadistic as a kid)
>.>''

I would agree - practice with ramen. It can be the easieist or the hardest thing on the planet to eat with hashi - or any other utensil for that matter. If the ramen has an oily coating, like in my seafood from Nom Shin, the better quality your hashi - the worse its gonna be. At least with cheap, rough bamboo hashi it won't slide around as much.

I was taught with rice, but you have to know someone cooks good sticky rice for that.