YES!!! Ok, so watching Subbed Anime for the first time in about 3-5 months. and I can understand some of what's going on without the subs :D The only time the subs are helping me is when it's something I've not heard before. Also I've noticed my ability to catch onto what a word is seems to be getting better as well :D I've been teaching myself how to read by using something I know I will understand and hopefully be able to get to work as well as it has so far or better. I've been using Pokemon. Not the Anime. I've figured out that Anime with subs won't help at all with what I want. I've been using the games. There's no way to escape the fact that I will be completely lost in a video game. The only option I have to find my way around is read and learn how to read what words are what. (like for instance trying to defeat the eleet 4 with using only tail whip? The game is made to not be able to work like that.) So yeah, I'm using Leaf Green and Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team both in Japanese to help me with my reading. Leaf Green doesn't really help that much because I can beat Kanto in my sleep. Mystery Dungeon on the other hand, If I can't read I can't complete missions, if I can't complete missions I can't get farther in the game, if I can't get farther in the game I can't eventually beat it, if I can't beat it why play the game at all? It's all a cycle that starts with me being able to read. I know, forcing yourself to have to learn might not be the best way to do things, but that's kind of how I learned English :D (Baby's can't get anywhere without learning how to speak) Also with Mystery Dungeon, I knew that Caterpie missed his mom and the Charmander thought my name was funny/weird. True I have played the English version of the game, but I was able to figure those things out from reading (even though from memory of playing in the pat would have worked too) but, I don't know... It's a great feeling realizing that I'm able to read/write/speak/translate better than I ever have in the past :D

My Profile picture The reason I don't have a picture of me is that she is me. I mean literally. I made that 3D model completely from scratch in a program called Metasequoia, and I made her to be well... me. She has my height, glasses, hair color/length, body shape and even her eye texture is as close as I could get to my actual eyes :) She's not the only 3D model I've made, but she is precious to me. If you know what Miku Miku Dance is, she's what is called a Selfy or self model. or in other words a model made to look like it's user.

こんいちは こんいちわ 真夏鈴です わたしわあめりかじん あたしがんばって日本語の けどあれわだめ だからあたしよがんばれほんとに わたしがんばっれずっと （Please forgive and correct any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning)

Why I write my name as RJマナツInstead ofまなつれい Well, it's because it's a name I use online and it will be the name I go by when I go to Japan. I however am not in anyway Japanese myself so I write my name in Katakana. I will continue to write it in Katakana until I know for sure if it would be proper for me to use Hiragana or Kanji instead. That is one thing I don't know about the Japanese Culture... Am I as an American (born and raised) permitted to write my name in Hiragana or Kanji?

ください、これわあたしゆめ (no translator) あたしの： わたしのにほんごだめです けどあたしのゆめ日本。 (Translator) 私が学ばなければならない理由です。 私はそれがいかに難しいかを気にしない。 ちょうど下さい。私の夢を手伝ってくれる？ I am still learning how ever I am starting to understand. You will notice when I write something myself I use few Kanji, meanwhile the translator uses many. Like I tried to say above, I want to learn Japanese so that I may visit Japan someday. I found out why I want to go and that's the first step. Now I need the how, and I can't go if I can't speak any Japanese. I do have skype, and honestly with my way of learning the best way for me to learn is to repeat saying a word over and over until I can say it without having to think about the characters that make up the word. I am hoping a native speaker will help me because I want to be able to speak to where I sound as close to being native as possible. So like I said up there in what little Japanese I know. Please, help me with my dream?

un poco práctico Hola mí llamó es RJ Soy de E.E.U.U. o Florida. Tengo veintiuno años y soy una muchacha. Mis ojos son "hazel" y soy muy alta. Mí español no es perfecto pero en inglés nosotros llama "practice, practice, practice". Tengo dos años de español en la esquela (conozco mí "spelling" por esquela no es verdad) (in English bad spelling?) Tengo que mucho practicar por mí español estar perfecto. Mí inglés es muy buen y tengo que muy poco practicar. Es verdad mí "spelling" en inglés no es perfecto pero miro la Terra (earth/world?) No es perfecto. Porque mí ingles necesita se perfecto. Soy de Florida y inglés es mí lingua primera.

How do I learn how to read/write Japanese Kana better? ... Yeah... I can read 8 Hiragana, 5-6 Katakana and read about the same amount... How would I go about learning to read/write the Kana better so that I can actually say sentences instead of simply single words in Japanese?

First notebook entry: Introducing myself こんにちわ 真夏鈴です Sorry, my 日本語 not good I am learning Japanese because I want to visit and someday work/live in Japan.