Learning the language; the New Years Resolution.

Most people say they are going to quite smoking or go on a diet. I want to pledge that I will make an extra effort to learn Japanese. I've already committed myself to signing up with several teaching sites.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/
http://www.iknow.co.jp/
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/

And I've made friends with a couple of people who have learned the language or at least in their 4Th year in studying it; so they can correct me and encourage my learning.

I had thought, maybe one day I could become a JET teacher in Japan - but those dreams are getting dashed as it seems I am getting older and they most likely would like people who are more educated and younger with more energy.

My mom has plans to take one more family trip back to Japan within the next 5 years - so I want to prepare and learn more than I had back when I visited back in 1988. I also want to rekindle some friends I made there back then, just would have to find out where they moved to and their new addresses and contact information.

Currently I am refreshing my Katakana and Hiragana and will progress later on with Kanji (the pictographic characters that is seen in Chinese).

きょうはちよとさむいですよ。

じゃね