歓迎する, <--I'm not in any way sure that this is being used right, but welcome!
Hi. My name is Dan... er... excuse me: 今日は。ダンです。Yes, so I'm trying to learn this, which probably looks like some sort of odd block language if you don't have your Japanese fonts installed. Anyway, this blog will become a central part of that, as I learn a language which I have flirted with since I was fifteen years old. I have excellent resources at my disposal: Pimsleur Audio Lessons, Japanese for Busy People, Remembering the Kana/Kanji by James Heisig, Easy Japanese by Jack Seward, the Pict-O-Graphix for Kana, and even a series of Japanese television lessons made by NHK.
On top of these, I finally have a resource for learning which I have never had before: other people. At last, I'm not the only one learning! I can look at my neighbors (Tony and Jenny) and say どくですか, and they'll say そこです. I can ask Javier from work それわなんですか, and he'll actually respond to this. You cannot imagine how exciting it is to have people I can learn with.
As a result, I think it only fair to offer use of this blog to all those I know who are learning this incredible language. This is your blog as well, if you wish it to be, and it is open to place discussions and opinions. If not, then it will be a deposit box for my observations and text concerning the status of learning. Either of these outcomes seems agreeable. I might even get instuctional commentary! Oh the hopefulness of it all.
It's been a long time since I've had the pleasure of pouring my thoughts and hopes onto the screen. You can ask my livejournal account: it suffered a horrible death from starvation. Like an unloved pet, I feed that old blog months at a time, until I eventually lost interest in airing the personal intricacies of my average life to nobody. This, hopefully, should prove to be a different beast.
