finishing my first year of Japanese
 

Hi everyone, I'm a freshman in college and am just finishing up my first year in Japanese. I'm a creative writing major and trying to minor in Japanese. My issue is that I have no one to practice Japanese with at home, so I'm looking for ways to practice over the summer. My first thought was to find a forum where I could write in Japanese. Would this be a good place for it? Does anyone have any other suggestions? I don't want to lose all my progress over the summer. Thanks

PS: This is my first post, sorry if this is in the wrong spot.
PPS: My class has been using the Genki textbooks.

こんいちわ　＞　こんにちは Got 3 out of 5.

ねんせえ　＞　ねんせい It is pronounced the way you wrote it but written the way I did.

せんもん is good but 　せんこう is better if you want to say "major".

マイナー Many Japanese would not have the slighest idea of what that would mean. Use ふくせんこう.

Drop the comma after 日本語を話しません.

あさります makes no sense. 　It does not mean what I think you thought. It means "desparately rummaging through ~~~" as in a stray dog looking for food. You can say れんしゅうできるばしょをさがしています = "am looking for a place for practice".

わすれ りたくなかった Incorrect conjugation. Say わすれたくなかった or more naturally, わすれたくないのです.

You may want to join the chat thread.
http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...haracters.html

Or you could keep posting your writing in this thread.

wouldn't you know it, マイナー and あさります were the 2 I peeked at jisho for.

Everything else are mistakes my sensei would slap me for. >.<

though according to my textbook major is せんもん. Is that out of date or something?

Thanks for your help, I'll definitely check out the chat thread

In Japan, when college students talk about what they are majoring in, they will use せんこう nearly 100% of the time. That is the official term.

せんもん is used mostly by professional workers to refer to their areas of expertise. Many graduate students actually use it but not undergrads. The word itself is not out of date at all.

How long have you been studying for? You're doing very well.

Thank you. I started in late August, so about 8 months. I wouldn't be worried about it if that wasn't all stuff we learned in the first three months. Especially こんにちは　and ねんせい.

Konnichiwa Masahiro!

Congratulations on your studies and hope everything would turn out good for you. :) Just keep on striving hard and you'll gain knowledge of what you want! good luck to you!:D

You do realize that there are Japanese websites right? Japanese message boards that's all in Japanese about various topics...

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http://majikichisokuhou.blog34.fc2.c...ntry-3073.html


Post all you want.

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This site is like a .. journal website.. you write a journal about anything and a native Japanese person will correct it in no time, you can also correct English to help the Japanese people on this site learn.


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