I am starting to learn Japanese seriously. FINALLY

I watched TED talk:




 and decided that if I shouldn't say anybody about it, then I will write daily. Of course not about my plans, but about what I did in current day with my Japanese.

Today and a few days before I found myself not actually learning it, but reading about learning, but whathever.

Two weeks ago I did Basic Japanese course at memrise.com. I think it's a nice way to start.

Here are one of the most popular obstacles in learning Japanese. Btw, it's for me, I will look on this post every time I will lack motivation or will try to find any excusses (source: http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/hard-way/1-4/)

1. The lack of time: In your free time you mainly read manga, watch anime, read fanfiction. Why not read manga in Japanese instead if you want to so hard?! Time to make a bank account and ship some nice Japanese manga home!

2. 'I don't have enough money': Your parents pay for your house bills, you have an Internet. There are a few free resources to learn Japanese! You would finally buy one of the books too... You don't really need to buy new manga title! No more new titles in 2014! Except yaoi ones, of course! XD

3. 'I will end up burning out and quitting midway': Well... It's time to show yourself you can do everything, but only if you really want to. Are you in?! We can't be half assed here! You don't 'want to learn Japanese'. You WILL BE LEARNING Japanese when you finish writing this post!

4. 'I'm not very good at learning languages': It's really one of the most popular excusses? I'm quite shocked. Every people can speak their native language. The only exception? Abuse when young. I have to say that I quite can't agree with the textfugu (see:source) here. Every human being have an ability to learn languages. Others may feel better about this, but it's only because of different attitude. You can't think 'I don't think I can do this/', because then you really CAN'T. Think the other way around!


Now I'm in the middle of my two weeks winter holidays. One week passed on sleeping and preparing walls in my room for painting them, which sadly only started today. Tommorow is a Sunday, my only plan is to visit my grandpas, so I will definitely find some time for Japanese! No youtube tommorow, lol.