Speaking Japanish

Watashi ga eigo de sore o lu koto ga dekinai toki, watashi wa nihongo o hanasu. Watashi no kokoro wa tokidoki itai.

So, I'm still trying to learn Japanese.

I have two audio courses now. The Collins Easy Learning one and the Earworms one. I have the basics down, introducing myself and so on, and I picked up quite a lot anyway from all the dramas.

I got through the first disc of the Collins and got a little bored. It was all about telling someone what my job was, and my career didn't really come up with the examples. The Earworms one is interesting, it's all done with music. It's supposed to mimic how babies learn languages, supposedly.

I really have to get back into using them. I really like being able to understand parts of what Japanese people say. Like, last night, we were watching a documentary on the tsunami, and I could get the gist of what a man was saying before the translator kicked in. Obviously not all of it, but just the odd word here and there.

I want to be able to read and write it too, but I guess I'll start with speaking it and move on to that later. Right before I move on to learning Korean and Chinese.