Your ability at Japanese

[Board of Command]

I got no idea, although some of the words do sound the same as Chinese.

[Ryllharu]

If I know any Japanese at all, I've learned it from anime. Shows that have serious repetition (like naruto, to give this topic some relavance for being in this section of the forums) make learning a few words really easy.

[lasaire]

I know I've picked up a fair amount of Japanese from watching anime, rather than practicing via by books and tapes. I'm hoping to go to Japan and become fluent via immersion later this year.

[The_Fourth]

Ive also learn most of my Japanese through animes. And my pronunciation is getting better.

[tensai]

i would say im inbetween decent to no idea, because i just started
i do understand the basics, and i actually borrowed a couple of books from my friend who already took a year of japanese
im gonna take japanese courses once the fall quarter begins though
right now im trying to learn the basics and try to write hiragana and katakana
i know all of hiragana and the vowels of katakana so far, but its useless unless i know more japanese vocabulary[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
kanji is gonna be hard, but im chinese and my parents know how to read/write it, so the translation is easy but saying it would be a different thing

[Goingin]

I didn't know any Japanese at all before i got into the world of Anime
The anime (and ofcourse the fansubbers!) teached me some japanese words and expressions

Gonna do a course in the basics of japanese soon, want to understand and speak it a bit to get along when i go to Japan next year [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

[Tofu #2]

I just started the Pimsleurs course as well as a book that I bought. I can count.

[Sharigan_User]

Originally posted by: The_Fourth
Ive also learn most of my Japanese through animes. And my pronunciation is getting better.

And like Goingin said

I didn't know any Japanese at all before i got into the world of Anime

Thats when I started to bother to learn Japanese. I always wanted too though, but sometimes, you miss some things becuz you're too busy reading the subtitles. I know most common words that I can understand without readding the subtitles, like why, what, thanks, and some sentences, like are you ok, or i understand. But when it comes to words that you wouldn't use in everyday chit-chat, then im clueless. But sometimes, i can pick up a few words.

[Himura_san]

nihongo hanashimasen.

[ohpeekaboo]

cute response himura_san, really 0_o

basically know enough to read manga as long as i have my trusty electronic jap dictionary for kanji reference (thank god they provide the readings!)