alphabets are killing me!! so far I have memorized a i u e o/ ka ki ku ke ko/ ga gi gu ge go in both hiragana and katakana. I have also learned to say that I understand/ don't understand/, the weather is good/bad, and I can say that I'm not Japanese. I'm seriously the whitest cracker you have ever seen and nobody is going mistake me for Japanese! I feel like I'm getting there though. I have actually been devoting myself to it everyday. Feels good. I'm going to get to Nihon eventually. I know I can do this.