Blog Thingy for Grammar and Vocabulary I know it's been forever since I've even been on the site (GAAH! Stupid me.), but I'd like to do a blog on a trading/bartering experiment I've started today. The goal is to trade a small and seemingly worthless item for a slightly more valuable one with random people, then trade THAT item for a slightly more valuable thing, so on and so forth. The blog will mostly be kept in Japanese- BUT NO ROMANJI!! With saying this, I barely have even a basic knowledge on Japanese grammar and vocabulary, so please please PLEASE do not hesitate to correct me whenever possible.. unless you are a fellow beginner like me who's just along for the ride. In that case, welcome! All of my attempts at creating a legible paragraph will purely be from online research thus far. Now that that's out of the way, let's get started! (Sigh, this should be fun.. [emoji])

Progress Report #2 I've decided to change the name of thsee entries to Progress Report #__. It's just easier. Plus, I really love Flowers for Algernon. I'm beginning to focus my learning on kana and grammar/particles. I just began to break the surface yesterday, and I can already tell that it's worlds easier than English. I mean, one single verb covers past, present, AND future?! And they ALL end with -masu?! That's so simple!! Why can't English have that??!! I also figured that the best way to learn kana was just to read out texts in Japanese (Nihongo). Even if I don't understand the meaning yet, it would help warm me up to reading at a normal pace as well as help really stick the pronunciation of all the kana into memory. So now I'll actually have my first use of all the entries in here that are completely written in Japanese! :D No doubt that I'll recognize words and phrases in the process, and may even extend my vocabulary. Though I consider my grasp on slang words pretty decent, those words being quite popular to anime/Manga fans like me, I might pick up more slang! I consider it important because they help you sound like a normal person instead of constantly formal, which a lot of textbooks could end up doing to you. I also discovered a series of audio recordings on YouTube called Michel-something's method for learning Japanese. The videos are pretty long (over an hour each) but they really know how to move things into long-term memory without you actively trying to memorize. I'd definitely recommend it to novices like me! Well, have a nice day!

Tips on How to Writeう?

I've tried and tried, but no matter what, this character just DESTROYS me. I can't quite get the shape right, and it always seems to turn out sloppy and awkward. Do you have any tips on how to write it correctly? It'd help a lot!

Things I Know So Far #1 Okay, I'm going to start doing these regularly to keep track of all current progress. I know some of the basic numbers: 1 is ichi 2 is ni 3 is san 4 is yon 5 is go 6 is roku 7 is nana 8 is hachi 9 is kyuu 10 is just 100 is hyaku 1,000 is sen 10,000 is ichiman I also know the days of the week- Getsuyobi, Kaiyobi, Suiyobi, Makuyobi, Kinyobi, Douyobi, and Nichiyobi. I just got done learning a bunch of -masu words; ikimasu: go, kimasu: come, mimasu: watch, kikimasu: listen, kakimasu: write, nomimasu: drink, tabemasu: eat, yomimasu: read, aimasu: meet. I know a bit of kanji and katakana, but I want to wait a little so I have a better grasp on the vocal language. I think that will make the written language easier to learn. I'll slowly try to convert over to writing these in katakana and kanji as I continue to learn. That's enough for today, so. . . BYE! :3

Where can I start learning basic sentence structure?

So, via learning apps I have begun building a vocabulary of simple Japanese words.

Awesome, right?

Well, as you can imagine, it'a kind of difficult to use these words in everyday situations wHill only knowing a couple simple sentence structures. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can learn this? Money is basically out of the question, sadly, unless it's only a few-dollar app or a book I can pick up at a bookstore. Any help would be fantastic!