I'm here to congregate(digitally at least, haha) with other people who want to learn Japanese, and possibly be taught it. Though I like Asian history and culture in general, especially Korean outside Japanese, I have a particularly strong interest in Japanese culture, history, and more. Even the economy, technical side atleast. I have a odd approach and history to learning Japanese. I have been learning it since late 00's. But I only learned how to learn it since about 2011, then revised my method again this year. Things have been demoralizing me along the years. Thing is, I want to READ Japanese. And I spent years learning it how most people teach it. "Just remember Kanji" and that was a flawed process to say the least. To elaborate briefly, you don't need to know that 黒 means 'black' and 空 means 'sky', you need to know that 黒 meas 'kuro' and 空 means 'sora'. Then you also need to know both 黒と空 change in readings when they are only with other Kanji(onyomi). I called myself memorizing alot of the Kanji from that popular Remembering the Kanji series and though it helped me learn radicals, it didn't help me read. Long story short ,I learned with a fellow Japanese learning friend at college that learning vocabulary... as Kanji is most optimal. And when you learn vocabulary, you learn Kanji too! So my passion to learn has been rejuvenated. So basically, I know how to learn Kanji, and actually have a great method I utilize, using songs I listen to all the time in Japanese. But I lack poorly in grammar, and certain aspects of Japanese. Like ta,te,iru forms etc. Also, I want to read Manga and stuff, so a teacher and other students who know slang (though I know a good bit of Japanese slang) and stuff would be awesome. (Such as らめえ another way to say stop in some manga/anime or デンパ meaning insane/bizarre stuff). Would be nice to have a teacher into modern/young terminology in Japanese culture. Thanks for reading all this, I like to type down my thoughts.. lol