Looking for a teacher. o -o

shinsetsu13 · (#1 (**permalink**))

Uh, hi, I am Shinsetsu, and I am trying to teach myself Japanese.
I have a couple resources, but I have a feeling I need more help.
It would be great if perhaps someone who knows English/Japanese would help me learn Rōmaji.
It is mostly memorization/grammar that I need help with.
I am also willing to help with English questions in exchange.
Okay, thank you for your time.~

SumireSatoh · (#2 (**permalink**))

hello,
...and how can i help you?

SHAD0W · (#3 (**permalink**))

You can already write in English therefore you learned Romaji. Well done.

manganimefan227 · (#4 (**permalink**))

I can help, I know two years of high school worth! (Like that's much >.>)

Ostria · (#5 (**permalink**))

I am also looking for a teacher. I figured it would be a good idea to see if anyone had any threads like this already instead of adding more. A friend of mine tried teaching me a few times, he was a good teacher, but at the time I didn't take learning very seriously. Right now I'm teaching myself from some random books and stuff I got on my computer >.>;. Some of them have examples and practice problems but some of them don't come with answers, and maybe I want more than five question and answer segments. Maybe I want to see some real life situations and everything. Anyway, right now i'm using Genki I, I'm on lesson 4 (So you have a good idea on what I know for the most part). The kanji is giving me a hard time for the most part, and in the book most of it is "partner" work. I suppose I just need someone who would work with me, maybe start talking to me in Japanese as we go along, to get me used to actually see it more often. I promise i'll work hard. I am in college right now, so i have a good bit of free time on my hands. I'm on the East Cost of the US, so i'm in EST time zone (Not sure what that is GMT, because they don't teach us GMT in America =.= (at least where I grew up at)) If you're interested in teaching me, reply back o.o. I could leave details (email, IM, Facebook) but I'm not sure if that is allowed so...yeah XD

KyleGoetz · (#6 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Ostria

I'm on the East Cost of the US, so i'm in EST time zone (Not sure what that is GMT, because they don't teach us GMT in America =.= (at least where I grew up at))

That just blew my mind. How old are you that you don't know what GMT is? I mean, you're obviously intelligent and educated enough to try and learn a foreign language on your own. That's very surprising!

(FWIW, GMT = "Greenwich Mean Time," the time zone of all of the UK and basically the "center" time zone. You'll also see it often written as UTC+0, while EST is UTC-5, meaning a five-hour offset from UTC (sometimes referred to as GMT, which is arguably the same thing, but for pedantic scientific reasons is not actually the same thing)).

masaegu · (#7 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

　
GMT = "Greenwich Mean Time,"

For Tokyoites, it stands for "Ginza's Mean Thugs".
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@Ostria

If you are on the U.S. East coast, Japan is 14 hours ahead of you (and only 13 when you are on DLST).

Nameless · (#8 (**permalink**))

where is the delete button?

KyleGoetz · (#9 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Nameless

where is the delete button?

There is no delete button.