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Originally Posted by TenshiChan
I am definitely not looking for a Japanese tattoo. You can be sure of that. Please don't think of me like I am that kind of person. Besides, I already have one tattoo (nothing Japanese or what so ever) and that's enough for me. I don't want any more tattoos.
I wanted to know the correct way of saying "the one person for whom my heart blazes" so I could show my boyfriend and ask him if that's what he was trying to write down. I was going to show him all of your explanations. And then ask him why he was afraid to just say that directly in my face. 
I started reading the guide you gave me. So I'm gonna start trying to learn this by using an English guide which I also need to translate back into Dutch first.  It looks really helpful though. I even started wondering if the education I applied for is going to actually teach me proper Japanese after I read the introduction part about textbook Japanese.  I'm supposed to learn Japanese in four years in this school. But maybe using this guide along side my education will help me out a lot.  |
Here's what you need to know going into university:
1. Four years is not enough to "learn Japanese" if by that you mean "become fluent."
2. It took me two years of university to be prepared enough to live in Japan. In that sense, it took two years to "learn Japanese."
Also, sorry if I was hard on you. I think I come across as a bully here sometimes, but it's really because I just want to help noobs avoid the stupid mistakes I made when I was young and dumb. And I just plain hate kanji tattoos on someone who doesn't have a connection to the language or culture—it's a fetishization that disgusts me.
But yeah, just go with what I typed way back in another post. It's not poetic, but it's at least better than what you got from your boyfriend.
And yeah, let him have it!
haha
Good luck. Learning Japanese is very rewarding.