So… I’m graduating highschool and turning 18 tomorrow! On the same day! xD
I hope to get more content on soon after. I’m sorry I haven’t been on much. As you might’ve guessed I’m pretty busy with graduation prep.

Does anyone have any questions or comments they’ve been wanting to share? I’d love to hear them! Go give my ask box a visit. :-)

ごめん!

Aaagh, I’m sorry for the lack of activity, guys.
My life is so crazy right now, I haven’t had much of a chance for anything.

I’m graduating soon, too. So there’s lots of stuff going on about that as well.

Please don’t un-follow me yet… :’( I promise I will be back up and running again soon.

Help please

So recently I went on a long trip with my family. I spent several of the long car-ride hours coming up with 20+ video ideas.

Question is: when should I start making them? I have a camera, but it’s a crappy camera. I’d prefer to wait til I get a nicer camera, but I have no idea when that would be. So perhaps the better choice at this point is to go ahead…?

I have a few questions I would love feedback on, if anyone would care to help.

First, would any of you watch? A lot of my content currently focuses on learning the language, seeing as I have never been to Japan. So quite a few of my videos would be on Japanese as a language- as opposed to a culture.

Second, is there any info or topic you would like to request?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. My ask box is right here.

ありがとう！

Don’t know when it happened, but I’m an active Youtube watcher. I check it like the morning paper. (along with tumblr ww)
It’s very useful in terms of Japanese learning- I get a lot of listening and reading practice out of it.

But that’s not what I’m going to talk about today. (although if anyone is interested I can provide some stuff later.)

So anyhow, lately I’ve been watching Eat Your Kimchi, which -you guessed it- isn’t Japanese. Kimchi is a big staple food of Korea. So yes, the couple who runs the channel do live in Korea. And do videos. About Korea.
For those who know me it shouldn’t be TOO shocking that I’m watching something not-Japanese-related. After all, I am interested most in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

So lemme get to what I want to talk about. (yes, I did have a plan with all this) Simon and Martina’s (EatYourKimchi’s creators) videos are fun, hysterical, original and great quality. They provide many different kinds of videos showing off different aspects of Korean culture and living in Korea as foreigners in creative ways. They do their job so well it makes ME want to make videos.
I’ve been hoping and wishing for a youtuber like them to do something like that about Japan. But alas, though many may come close, none can compare. So. I’ve made a goal. I want to become that youtuber.
Unfortunately for me. I’m nowhere near Japan at the moment- nor have I even been once. I’m also a “good quality” snob and don’t want to be making videos with my current crappy camera.

So I’m going to set up some goals.
1. To be learning Japanese & about Japanese culture 2nd hand
2. To somehow save up enough money to get myself a nice camera & tripod
3. Actually go to Japan

Obviously the second two are going to take a considerably larger sum of money than the first. But I’ll make it happen. Someday.

If you made it this far- Congrats. I’m surprised you had the patience to deal with my whining. xD Thanks for listening to my rant. ww

Word of the day~

I was thinking I might do a word of the day post… we’ll see how this turns out…

WOW GUISE

SRSLY U GUISE

*Ahem* Sorry… I don’t usually resort to horrific spellings but

A HUNDRED FOLLOWERS YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

(I had some gifs here but I think they were messing up my post, so I took them out.) :(

I want to thank each and every one of you for clicking the “Follow” button.

ありがとうございました。

これからもよろしくお願いします。

Greetings!

I realized I’ve only been focusing on my level of Japanese, but now that I’m noticing I have a more diverse amount of followers, I’d like to make a couple of posts for you guys!
Unfortunately I can’t teach anything past my own level (not well, at least), but what I can I will!
がんばります！
So today, I’m going to cover some real basics: greetings.
始めましょうか? (shall we begin?)

おはようございます (ohayou gozaimasu) - “good morning” (usually refers to the time from which the sun rises to around 11:00 or so) the “gozaimasu” part is a polite ending

こんにちは (konnichiwa) - “good day/afternoon” or “hello” (usually said anytime in the afternoon) there is no need to add “gozaimasu” to this one. It’s fine on it’s own.

こんばんは (konbanwa) - “good evening” (used in the evening of course)

お休みなさい (oyasumi nasai) - “good night” I’m not so sure if this is a greeting so much as a farewell…
A little fun fact is the 休 (yasu) is the same as in “休みます” (yasumimasu) which means to rest, or take a break.

Well, I’m going to stop here for today. Hope this helps! (^_^)