は〜い、日本人ですよ〜
Codaさんも日本人？日本のどこの出身ですか？
日本人じゃなかくても、Codaさんも日本語で話せると私もびっくりしました！

私の生まれた国は日本だったけどまだ若い私は家族とアメリカへ引っ越しました。
アメリカで日本語の練習相手がいないので、もうなれていません。でも私は時々書き間違えてもよかったら、ぜ ひCodaさんと日本語で話せるとお楽しみにしています。

（笑）いいえ、いいえ、日本人じゃない。アメリカのカンザスに生まれた。今アルカンさーに住んでる。200 0から日本語を勉強してたけど。大学で三年間授業を取った。その後、日本語話せる友達としゃべて練習だ。（ えっとう、それは‥‥ちょっと変な文だったみたい。直してくれないか？）

だってさ、どうしてびっくりした？

Duchess vision: blah blah blah jibber jabber jibberish gibberish blah of the blah CODA gibberoony @.@

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I am from the Caribbean. The beautiful twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Just 7 miles north of Venezuela.....

Paypal HATES us...and we have PIRATES!! YAY! 8D

*drowns in kanji*

I swear... I wanna start speaking random spanish/french now >>

It should be known that I UNDERSTAND better than I speak XP Mainly because I think too much and I'm always worried that I'm saying something wrong... So I'd rather not .___.;;;

Esp when typing...... if in verbal conversation, I have no choice but to say it.. but typing.. AHHH my spelling... is soo off. Unless you dont mind tons of "k" instead of "que" etc xDDDD

Fairborn, Ohio.
It's dull. But the people are amazing.

Dont forget the social higheracrchy. Where as here all you have to do is be born on American soil to be American, in Japan, your father has to be Japanese for you to be Japanese. Your the nationality of your father, and Japanese "Citizens" recieve the perks as such. Tho as a historian I can tell you that the Japanese history is rather interesting in many ways, aswell as their cultural backgrounds etc. Anyone who says there has never been a war in the name of Budhissm has never looked at Japanese history.

Also a fun fact about Japan is that, until rather recently, tattoo's were illegal because tattoos were only worn by Yakuza.

Also, The Great State of Mississippi.

ちょっと違う意味でしょう？「練習は友達と話すのです」ような意味と言いたかった。

まあ、ね、十年間じゃなくて、授業の終わりから僕もあまり練習しなかった。時々何かを読んだり、日本語の学 生と話したりしたけど、二年前ぐらいだけにもう一度自分で勉強してた。

難しくないと思うよ。英語よりやさしいよ！日本語はとても論理的と思う。

For you, Logan:

That's a little different meaning, isn't it? I wanted to say something like "My practice is talking to my friends."

Nah, it's not really ten years; after my classes ended I didn't practice much either. Sometimes I would read something or talk to Japanese students, but I only started studying again about two years ago.

I don't think it's difficult. It's easier than English! I think Japanese is very logical.

Yes, and you still hear people with that opinion. It's considered kinda rebellious. lol Even piercings can be considered rare. I think it's mostly just those visual kei dudes and such that has a lot. So if you haven't been to Japan you could be confused...

And yeah lots of people are wondering is Japanese is hard to learn. Yes and no. It may take a while. I hear a lot of people finishing their studies on about 6 years. Well it could take less or it could take more. Depends on how much to like to study and has easy with languages an such...I do think I have kind of easy for languages becuase I naturally remember the meaning of the words after hearing them a few times in movies and stuff. Considering I haven't taken a lot of classes ( just one month in Japan actually ) I think I'm going okay. I don't need 100% subtitles for everything like I used to. I wanna take more but right now I don't have the time or the health.

At the time I have to be satisfied with what I can lean online. But I think it's fun and my goal is to try writing something in the future. I mean like a manga or something. Does it sound crazy? I know I'm still a noob but I don't think it's impossible. I feel so comfortable in the story telling and have been thinking about it for YEARS. And I'm still young so...and I have always of course loved to draw whatever. I think I tried to draw "manga" already when I was 4. Count backwards from 19 and you'll get the idea. It's not something I just found like "hey this seems new interesting". I lol'd every time people talked about these "new" Japanese comics. As I had been all over them way before nobody even knew what they were called here. No well I didn't know what they were called eitehr but I knew where they were from. At least...heh...

Omg I can talk forever about this. Anyway, Sweden is great too. Kinda. Except that were so boring sometimes and don't wanna learn something new. Yet half of the people here pretends like it's America junior. We're not a freaking multi culture country. Forget it. If you mama's from Iraq and Daddy's from Maroco you're not freaking Swedish. You're a Swedish citizen but you're not Swedish. makes sense? How about if I move to China do I become Chinese? Not really huh? lol

Not just that, 80% of all shit on TV is American. It's not even funny anymore. What about other countries like Korea, Japan and maybe India? For an example....Demand I guess but Japan and Korea should have no problem imo. Their TV dramas should be watch able for most people. But no...lets just bring all popular America shows so teens will be happy. And then bring all the talk shows that has nothing to do with anything happening here. Tyra banks, Ellen...whatever they all talk poop. And they go "in America right now, American here, America there"...wow...okay...that was a little interesting but what's next? America again? Okay...woah woah woah! No, I don't hate America, but lets have some variety okay?

*tries not to write more*

あ、そういう意味ですか！わかりました！Codaさん偉いですね。
でも最初Codaさんは何のために日本語の勉強をし始めたんですか？いつか日本の会社で働きたいみたいな希 望とか日本の何かにすごく興味がある理由とか？

英語が複雑すぎると思います。日本語の感じの書き方が難しいですが、英語が面倒くさい。

@Yuki - Wall of text! *stares at in wonderment*

Peoples and their Japanese. D:

You guys should totally go make a Japanese-Speaker hangout.

I would hang out there and try to get you to teach me stuff.

I've been trying to teach myself Japanese (because I don't have any Japanese tutoring/classes available in my area) for the last three years. :[

Yeah...I'm hopeless. I think I could win a price for being Japan obsessed. But if I do I hope it's a good thing. I'm still sometimes looked weird at for "knowing" so much, apparently. (?) Cause like I said most people here still only knows about here and America. They are like "uuhh Japan?...wut?...do they speak Chinese there?"...like...NO...they DON'T...except if a Chinese guy goes there, duh? lol I swear I could bring up tons of subject about Japan and talk ALL DAY. Without making people bored, it's amazing. At least if they haven't heard it before, which they usually haven't. Before I talked to many people hey thought Japan was still like in the Edo period. Like people running around in oriental clothes and rice hats. ( which some people on the country might do but yeah yeah you get what I'm talking about. ) It's sad and it's not even animes fault cause I'm talking about adults here. gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I'm talking again. *hits the ground with shame* Make me shut up...

I'd marry Japan if I could, along with GACKT. WHOOPS! Ignore that... *whistles*

He actually came out with he's real age recently this year. He's supposed to be still 36. WHAT?! Or was it 38? What the hell. But who cares? But I mean yeah...then again I don't care how old he is as long as he's still hot an sings great. Before I discovered him I wasn't even really even interested in music. He kinda opened up that door for me. And honestly when I first listened t him I had no idea what he looked like. I guessed..."old man"...ROFL! SURPRISE!...And yes god... <_<; Tell me one person who hasn't at least heard about him in Japan. If old grandmas at Miyajima starts chatting about him with you everyone has to know. Right?...

The Netherlands! Yay... <- not... ;_; I feel ashamed of my country lately

Yeah They chewed at my shirt and ate my bag tags...so rude... D: But well, they ARE animals...

さぁ、大学でみんなは外国語を一年間勉強しなくてはいけない。僕は日本語を選んだ。‥かっこいいと思ったか ら。 >.>; でも、便利だったよ。コンピューターの事はたくさん日本語のソフトやページがある。

暗記がたくさんあるが、漢字はあなり難しくないと思う。

I was rusty too until I started practicing with one of my friends. I've picked up most of my old skill again although my kanji recognition isn't as good as it used to be and I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch of stuff.

No kidding, me too; ワプロバカだね。 I can just type them so I just need to be able to read what I've written and that's about it. ^^()

そうかコーダーくん？
あたし超うれしかったと思うよ～　漢字の暗記時わ～