The 2008 (and 9) weaboos learning Japanese thread *chairs are thrown at miles*

I don't consider myself to be a hardcore anime fan, but I do enjoy anime quite a bit, and it was one of my motivations to attempt to pick up the Japanese language. I haven't been able to get into any classes here at my university, mainly attributed to me being an engineer and having little to no free time and lack of a large tree of Japanese classes (we only have like Introductory Japanese).

Personally, I went and found Pimsleur's Japanese (no, I didn't buy it, just downloaded it) and found the Japanese language to be rather intriguing and interesting and it also allowed me to understand more in the anime I watch (similarly, I pick up random words from anime that show up in Pimsleur's later on). I decided to keep on self-studying Japanese by way of Pimsleur's and Anime. I bought a book on basic Japanese learning to see if I can garner more information. I also picked up Hiragana in my free time over the past few months, so I'm somewhat literate (if only limited to hiragana). I suppose I'm also indirectly familiar with a good amount of Kanji too (to a certain amount since I'm from Taiwan and I can somewhat read traditional chinese characters. I know they're not exactly the same, but I can usually get a good idea of what kanji characters mean.)

The other thing I found interesting, since I know mandarin, is that there are a good amount of cognates from mandarin as well. Along with the English cognates in the Japanese language, this means I could guess a good amount aural words and have a good idea of what it means.

This may also be why I think I could learn Japanese more easily than most if I had to. I wish I could easily get into the Japanese class at my university, but A) There's only one Japanese class, B) It's only offered in the Fall (JPN 1105 is in the fall, there's JPN 1106 in the spring, but I doubt it's a good idea to take 1106 without 1105.), and C) That class's capacity is only 25 people out of the entire university, so it's damn near impossible to get in. Consider yourself lucky (or consider me unlucky).

Jam it back in, in the dark.