:pandahurray: Thank you for the quick lesson! I'm right now working on translating that into kana. I'm trying as much as possible to avoid Romaji and currently working on getting my Kana down. I picked up Rosetta Stone, but when I started to do it, I realized that without being able to read what it was presenting me, I was hurting myself greatly.

My Name is Babs and I live on the south coast of England. Since I met a japanese lady who is studying here in England I have been interested in learning some japanese history and also the language although that is very slow progress. If I do try to download hiragano etc I need to know that will not mean losing my normal English ability.

I have not yet visited JAPAN although I hope to save enough money to do so some time.

I am keen to understand the culture also. wondering if modern japanese people are changing from those of the past as happens in most countries.
Now you have a new Prime Minister I wonder the effect on your country will be.

My other interests is music of all kinds-- art, animals, countryside, and writing and learning from books etc.

You may gather that I am from the older generation but I do hope that will not prevent my sharing with you on here.

best wishes, babs.

Name: Paul
Coming to you from: Russia
First Breath: July 1984
Why do you want to go to Japan: I have long like this amazing and beautiful country

Welcome! No one's too old around here! Have fun!

Thank you, you have here really cool forum

It's not mine yet But it is quite addicting.

Hello everyone, I have lurked over this forum a bit and I have decided to join in on the fun and see how I like it here. Who am I? Well I'm a 16 year old girl from the USA, I'm an actor who really wants to find some acting classes around where I live and someday become a famous actor. I'm vegan and I love animals. I want to learn Japanese and go to Japan one day and I love Visual Kei.

Name: DarkThespian
Coming to you from: USA
First Breath: February 1994
intentions and whatnot: Well I've been interested in finding a good forum like this for a while and hopefully I'll like it here and maybe I'll learn some things about Japan/fashion/anime and such.

Hi, I'm not a vegetarian, but also love animals, especially cats.:)

I like ze puppies . . .Welcome!

hi everyone, JF newbie here :-D