Preface

Welcome to Nihon Notes! This blog is (projected to be) about my journey in trying to learn the Japanese language.

I am a 21 year old gamer, who like many other gamers, has a fascination with Japan. This has sprouted from a lifetime of playing japan-made games. As most of us here know, Japanese makes no sense to the average American. Being so, there are times when I cannot understand a game that I'd really like to play! If it's not getting a translation in some manner of English, than most of us are totally screwed out of playing it. I was fed up with it one day!

Thus I study the language. Someday I may attain the goal of fluency, but not without a lot of effort. I am writing this blog for a number of reasons, foremost being to keep pressure on myself to continue learning. Another is to hopefully get insightful input from others. And yet another is to encourage those who are considering studying Japanese to do so. I am having a lot of fun studying the language and having those, "Oh, that's what that means." moments.

I feel obligated to say that I am in no way a language master, and anything written here is possibly completely incorrect. In the event that you find a mistake, please let me know about it! Anything that you can input towards learning would be appreciated. Beyond that, any comments are encouraged. I hope this blog will be helpful to you, and frankly, to me.