For about 18 months I've had a fascination with Japan and it's culture. I have wanted to learn the language but everytime I applied to a course I either couldn't raise the money or they were booked out.
Last week I made the decision to dive in head first with my own self-study techniques, and I must say I'm so excited to be doing this!
I am a little worried about pronunciation (even with the Genki text book and CD) so does anyone have any tips on how I can work on this area? I am too inexperienced to seek out Japanese speaking friends yet (for conversation anyway) so mainly looking at internet sources for now.
After learning the whole basic Hiragana chart (in just a few hours with 100% recall I'll happily add!) I'm now ploughing through the Katakana characters, what I am unsure of is whether I should learn extra vocab/kanji or just follow the Genki textbook? I have enough time to study hard each day but I don't want to rush through the book.
Anyway I am glad to have begun my studies and with a little direction I think I'll look back and be grateful the official courses were booked out when I applied
