First week Japanese

SOOOOO...

It has been a week since I made my promises to learn Japanese well enough to achieve my various goals! This week, I spent a lot of time learning basic verbs that are both useful and fun. Like "to want" and "to fly!" I have also been going over some of my notes from my conversational Japanese course I took last spring (a year ago)! That stuff is coming back to me pretty quickly! So I know things like the days of the week, calendar days (theres a different numbering system for counting things like days and people, dont even ask me about counters!). Clay, my bf, also got me the Pimsleur Japanese 1 course, which I have been listening to and learning a few things, but it is pretty basic. I also have been trying to get a grip on the dictionary forms of words and briefly touched on the 'te' form and stuff like that.

I've also discovered a new site, Erin's Challenge, which I think will be pretty helpful for learning more conversational, young-people style Japanese. Some of the dialogue is pretty basic, but some of it is also very complicated, so in all, I think it is a pretty good resource! It is obvious there are a lot of weird things you can do with verbs though that I have no idea about.

I AM slightly behind schedule, because I also wanted to learn different titles for people, like brother, boss, boyfriend, etc. But I have learned a lot of verbs, so I think its going pretty well!!