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Indeed..! It's almost as if we share an interest in diapered anime characters or something. :P

Pixiv is great though..! The average quality of good artists there is actually kind of amazing.

Well to be fair I dunno how long I can make this anyway since I tend to go in circles....but hear we go

Ok so from what I can tell I think the reason I Like Hinata is posibly a maternal thing. She's the type of character you tend to want to protect. She also fits all the possible signs of being like myself(A AB) so that might play a part. She has a rather rough home life and leads a somewhat stressful if not mostly stressful life up to a set point in the show dispite being what some would consider royalty. She's shy around others and is soft spoke so in a way she's like me but at the same time the exact oppsit since I'm shy around folks I don't know and can be soft spoken but once I get comfortable I get loud and playful.

So I think that along with some of our shared triats that I feel this need to protect her. She has a harsh home life and she has no confidence in her self. this leads me to want to protect and help her. and as stated she shows all the signs of being a ab like myself so that could be something.

Will do. I can easily give a short and sweet post about what I've found but that seems lazy to me.

That face. ^^'

Also I guess it probably wouldn't surprise you to know that "おむつ" was one of the first Japanese words I learned, would it?

No prob..!
Though, if you are looking for references, I recommend Jisho. It's pretty dope. You can even search whole sentences with it and it will try its hardest to split it up into words and define each one.

Well, at least in my case, "history class" was kind of a misnomer. They did teach history, but also things like culture, folklore, and a lot of things that aren't strictly "the things that happened".

In fact, a lot of places now call the course "social studies" rather than "history".

Of course, these things weren't taught as fact, but were to serve as context for historical events, or as the history of modern culture.
I think this in particular would probably fall under the "ways people thought the country started" section of these classes.

分かりない。(；´∀｀)

true. i would have it done already but stuff got in the way at the last moment. I SHOULD be ok by then though.

No prob..!

Also, thank you for the extra information, I did appreciate it. (Even though I didn't really say anything about it last message)

You can't just make a guess and expect me to not explain. :P
I'll try to keep it brief(ish) though.

Part of it is definitely going through an online textbook called "TextFugu", but that's the easy part since textbooks and courses are pretty guided. Because of my goals, it's not really enough practice to get good in a reasonable amount of time, so I do a number of other things too.

So, a 1000-mile view of the general idea is:
- I am learning grammar, vocabulary, and some Kanji from TextFugu.
- I am using a spaced repetition system called Anki for memorizing things.
- I am posting blogs in Japanese on a site called Lang-8.
- I am using Wanikani to learn the rest of my vocab and Kanji. (Actually, if you ever want to learn Kanji, I highly recommend this in particular!)
- I record myself to compare the details of how I say things against the example sentences I put into Anki.
- I use the Japanese Language Stack Exchange if something leaves me stumped.
- I sometimes go to a Japanese conversation club to talk in real life. (And of course, I make some conversation with my Japanese friend to practice this too.)

I also keep a diary for language learning to both help me remember things better, and also to review if I forget something.
There are also a ton of ways that I more passively (Or sometimes, actively) practice, and I've set up things to help myself improve all over the place.

I self-teach myself a lot of things, so I get a lot of ideas for things that can help me out. That means I often experiment with new ways of efficiently learning things.

Oh, I haven't ever actually talked with his parents. We met in college, and he doesn't live with his parents--and that's not really the kind of thing I would go out of my way to do. ^^'
Also your curiosity would probably not be satisfied if I asked him (I haven't seen him since your last message), because, even though he was born in Japan, he went through school here and had the same education I did.

I think that younger Japanese people in Japan would have learned of it in history class though, since history generally has some sections about the origin of the country it is taught in.

Enjoy your new brain-sashimi!

...that came out wrong.

But yeah! All parameters are optional with quotes.

I Think I have everything figured out that I WILL figure out.

hmm god huh? yeah well I hope I can at least do my best with out overdoing it.

Well, Romaji are just what they call English (Roman) lettering. So, it isn't used exclusively for transliterated Japanese; it's used for normal English too!

I wasn't meaning to imply that Japanese use Romaji like the rest of the three things I mentioned, but rather that Romaji are very well-understood by a majority of Japanese speakers, even if English isn't to nearly the same extent. And as such, the export of romanized Japanese names (like "Pokemon" for example), and company names that use Romaji that are very intentionally Enlgish-ish (Like "Softbank") is why I claim Romaji to be part of the Japanese language. However, these romanizations are generally not used unless the name is being exported somewhere outside of Japan.

As for how often it is used, there are many, many other places in Japan that use Romaji because there are many things that use their English names in Japan. If you look at any images of any Japanese city, chances are you will see some Romaji in the image.

That's right, and that is indeed what I did.

I think that anyone learning Japanese should also avoid sentences written in Romaji, and instead should invest learning Hiragana first. It is no exaggeration to say that it is used as the basis of everything. In fact, I studied Katakana sounds using Hiragana.

Well, it was a simplification with things added more because they were funny. They didn't vote on their phones for a new shogun either. :P

I mean, the video gives a pretty accurate overview--though it isn't exhaustive and really shouldn't be used as a reference. I just thought you might find it fun..!

Aye, that I am.

...but I won't bore you with the details with how I can be sure I am learning efficiently and correctly. (That is, unless you want to hear it, but be warned that it's kind of involved)
Basically, there are all kinds of pitfalls you need to watch out for when self teaching, so you have to be super-extra careful with your processes.

Ah neat..! I have a Japanese friend too, though I don't hear much folklore from him. However he mentions all kinds of interesting facts and snippets pretty casually and fairly often when I talk with him.

It's super-interesting to me, so sometimes I do a little extra research on those things too. So I think I can see where you are coming from.

Manually, yo.

I just surround the text I want to quote with "[QUOTE][/QUOTE]" tags. Like this: