A recommeded website to help boost us all. We all need tools to help us learn. Whether it be just a simple pen/pencil and paper (lots of paper) or flashcards or maybe just someone nearby helpful enough to quiz you on what you learned. We all need that little boost for proper pronunciation and better memorization. What I want to recommend is a site called Quizlet that has virtual flashcards. Quizlet starts with flash cards. Students can make their own, or choose from millions of flash card sets created by others. But that is just the beginning - once you've got flashcards, you can use several study modes including multiple choice tests and study games. You can add images and listen to audio, and even study on the go with one of dozens of Quizlet-compatible mobile apps. Students are the core of Quizlet. High school and college students, language learners, grad students, home school students, anyone studying anything. Quizlet makes it easy to create and share study materials, to study with a few friends or an entire class. And Quizlet is good for studying almost any subject, from languages and vocabulary to history to science and the arts. (I've made up a few sets of the basic Japanese alphabet if any beginner Japanese learner wants to use what I have down. http://quizlet.com/user/passionforanime/) Hope this has helped some as much as it has for me. （＾ｖ＾） P.S. Site can be changed into a few languages at the very bottom left of the site but sadly not very many languages.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself, はじめまして！ おはようございます。わたしのなまえはジェシカです。 Okay, I can't pretend I know what I'm doing (^_^;) had to look some of that up and still not 100% sure if done it right... わたしはにほんごがすこしわかります。 Anyways, name is Jessica, I'm self-learning/teaching myself the Japanese language so I can one day fluently speak, read and write. I only know the extreme basics right now but learning more and more each passing day. Any help along the way will always be eternally grateful, and maybe I will be able to teach a few things as well. :) さよなら

A bit of help to better understand my Japanese Vocabulary? Rather long, hoping I can explain myself clearly here. Okay... A couple days back when I was researching for a better understanding of the auxiliary verb "imasu (います)" one of the interesting answers I came across was someone saying: "For example: Onna no hito wa tonde imasu. (おんなのひとはとんでいます) tonde imasu (とんでいます) = is jumping/flying It comes from the verb "tobu/tobimasu" ("tobu" (とぶ) is the "u-form," or dictionary form, and "tobimasu" (とびます) is its "masu-form," or polite form). To express that something is going on right now, you take the "te-form" of the verb, and add "imasu." (います) The "te-form" of the verb "tobu" is "tonde," (とんで) so you get "tonde imasu." (とんでいます) Words like "imasu" are often called "helping verbs," because they connect to other verbs to express different things." For the most part I do understand what (s)he is saying but I was wondering if someone could help explain how to take the dictionary form and turn them into their "masu-form" and "te-form" so I can better understand to use "imasu" correctly.