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Message: <blockquote data-quote="avarame" data-source="post: 24465" data-attributes="member: 2227">Konnichiwa, mina-san. Douzo yoroshiku <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face    :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" />I'm a high school student from California. I'm studying nihongo. I'm interested in Japanese culture, I find it fascinating. I'm a mere beginner at nihongo. My kanji knowledge consists of the numbers up to 10, ?, ?, ?, and ?. I have virtually no working vocabulary. I'm terrible at listening - from a normal sentence I can understand one or perhaps two words. I flatter myself that my pronunciation is all right - I have no problems with ? or the combinations (?? etc).I may get the chance to go to Japan for a few days next year. My father is currently President of the Rotary club here in town; in May '04 there is a big Rotary convention in Osaka, which he might attend, and might bring me along <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite117" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Unfortunately, it's during the school year... so I'm not sure if I can go. :/Outside of Japan-related stuff, my life is pretty boring. I'm a computer geek. I sit inside all day at my computer. I'm either playing games, programming, listlessly browsing the internet, or drilling kanji.So that's me in a a nutshell. Yay me. :clap: j/k.</blockquote>

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