Hello... And may the fap be with you... young one.

Hello, kinda just formally introducing myself. So if anyone out there is a translator and sees this please reply I'm looking to learn Japanese and would like some help. (looking to move to japan one year and would like to be of service here.)

Dat tamamo. [size=10]dammit where's monmusu 3..[/h]

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Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the community.

I'm currently studying Japanese and have been for almost 4 years now I think and will be applying to university next year to study, I'm aiming to become a translator. How much do you know?

I'm nowhere near advanced yet but I could give you some tips maybe.

Heya and welcome, also a novice Japanese speaker but doubt I am enough to teach others hehe.

But try www.humanjapanese.com out if you want some tips and maybe even learn something, great program for learning Japanese!

So welcome again and good luck!

Edit: Oh and nice Avatar. xD

Welcome to FAKKU, enjoy your stay.

Your avatar makes makes me want to play MGQ 2 and lose to Tamamo all over again.

Anyway, welcome.

Yurixhentai I know almost none (domo origoto, baka, and kanishiwa (even miss-spelled their pronunciation too))

You've got some work to do!

Personally I'd start listening to a lot of Japanese speaking, not just in anime but actual conversations so you can get used to the sounds. It doesn't matter if you don't understand any of it at all, you just need to begin to 'hear' the language - it probably sounds like white noise to you now but listen and listen every day and you'll begin to pick up the sounds. Watch some YouTube videos or watch some movies or anime in Japanese. One thing I do every day is listen to podcasts which you can get from iTunes for free (I'm even listening to stuff right now). There's a huge amount of content. That's if you have iTunes. If you do, go on the store and scroll down to the bottom and look on the right hand side, you'll see the colour of the flag of what country you're in. Change it to Japan and you'll get Japanese content. Then just go onto podcasts and subscribe to and download them.

While doing that, you're going to need to learn Hiragana and Katakana which shouldn't take you too long. It doesn't really matter which you learn first. I went for Hiragana first. You could even do both at the same time I guess, everyone has their own methods. There isn't a "right" way, what I'm saying is just some guidance, you can ignore it completely. I learned them from two books by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura called Let's Learn Hiragana and Let's Learn Katakana, and at the same time used this website.

That's kind of the base stuff you need to learn on which you will build on, so you could give that a go. Maybe make some flash cards or use Anki. I personally prefer making my own flash cards. Invest in some learning books as well.

I hope you can find your way with that, sorry if it wasn't good guidance. If there's any questions you have then go ahead and ask. Or you could read through and ask in this thread on the site instead.

I was going to mention kanji and reading but I think it'd be best to get that above stuff down first and then you could start on them, maybe buy the Genki series and then start on stuff like Read Real Japanese Fiction, Read Real Japanese Essays, Breaking into Japanese Literature etc.

Welcome to Fakku :D