Japanese listening resources Can anyone provide recommendations of Japanese movies, TV shows, anime, or podcasts that are suitable for beginners? Last week I watched "Your Name" and a couple of episodes of "Steins Gate" in Japanese with English subtitles and found I could understand little bits and pieces here and there (nani, doushite, ohaiyō etc). Any recommendations of good media? Arigatō!

Word order in Japanese sentences My phrasebook says that "sukoshi hanasemas" is "I speak a little" in Japanese. However, if you want to specify which language you speak a little of, where in the sentence do you include the language word? For example, if I want to say "I speak a little Japanese" is it "sukoshi nihongo hanasemas" ?

Is "nihongo" the noun or adjective version of the word "Japanese"? In English, the word "Japanese" can be used as an adjective (to refer to Japan or its language, culture, or people) or as a noun (the language or the people). Does "nihongo" refer to both of these? Are there any other meanings to it?

Any Japanese-speaking farmers, environmentalists, or food producers out there? Hi guys, My goal is to travel to Japan to visit farms in the Masanobu Fukuoka style (http://www.permaculture.com/node/140 if you're interested) to bring back these practices to Australia and implement them on my farm. As such, I need a vocab list for these things I know how to talk about in English - in Japanese! I'm still learning the kana and kanji so I would prefer the translation in romanji for now (but if you wanted to add the kana or kanji as well that would be great!). Farm Chemical Chemical free Organic Weed Weeding Plow Soil Compost Orchard Pasture/paddock Field (where a crop is grown) Pollution Fossil fuels Market garden Seed Seedling Pasture-raised Sheep Ewe Ram Lamb Chicken Hen Rooster Duck Cattle Cow Bull Calf Regenerative Agriculture Ground cover Vegetable Grain Rice Water Rain Rainfall Sun Design Natural farming Nature Straw Insect No-tillage It's a long list, but I appreciate any effort towards translation :)

Can someone please translate a short bio for me? Hi there - I'm only just starting out learning Japanese and would really appreciate it if a native speaker or advanced speaker would be able to translate a couple of sentences I've written into Japanese so I can start to get a feel for the language. I'm hoping to have the translation in hiragana (for pronunciation), romanji, and if at all possible a recording of you saying it aloud (in Australian English, we REALLY don't pronouce all our words clearly which seems to be the exact opposite of Japanese!). If this is acceptable, the following is what I need translated! "My name is Emily Little. I'm twenty-five years old. I live on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales in Australia on a farm with my husband. We grow vegetables and raise pastured lamb for our local community. I'm learning Japanese to better understand the culture and because I would like to visit one day." Thank you kindly! Emily