Ohh, that's true! I've actually watched quite a bit of Japanese Dramas and Movies. So when I look through
Genki, I find that I am familiar with many of the phrases and words.. but certainly not enough to understand the shows without subtitles (quite yet). It's like learning how to ride a bike? (: Training wheels with English subtitles and gradually moving away from it!
Are there any Grammar books you would like to recommend i.e. the yellow book you had mentioned earlier, whom is it by? I've noticed the sentence structure in Japanese is very similar to Korean; many of the words "sound similar too (not exact, but just the slight gist of it). I don't think grammar for me will be hard to learn! I'm just worried that I would sound too 'textbook-like'.
For instance, for English Learners:
A: How are you?
B: I'm fine, thank you. And you?
I want to learn conversational Japanese language, so it wouldn't sound so awkward or unnatural when I'm speaking to native speakers for instance. (I'm guessing this is why your abroad japanese students found amusing xD)
Oddly enough, I'm not majoring in Japanese. I'm a proposed Biology major, and aspiring to get into Dental School. However, I would like to become fluent in Japanese and Spanish by the time I graduate undergraduate school!
