Who here can read Japanese?

"Wait!

Something's coming!!

Eh?

...Didn't you take the key?

A-N-Y-WHO!

Give it to me immediately!"


I dont know. Just a guess. I guess it depends on context, but that's what I understand it as.

So, what's the deal? Yesterday you were pretending to not even know what I typed out in your profile, but you're still okay with taking translation requests? Granted, this wasn't a difficult translation, but still. Seriously, what happened? Did someone point out some flaws in your Japanese that made you feel down or something?

I know that feeling sometimes, when I think I know enough Japanese to tackle on something, like some fairly difficult reading, and then end up feeling like crap when I need to stop every few sentences to look up stuff, but just take a second to relax. Don't stress the stuff that you don't know. You never stop learning a language. Even in your native language, chances are you bump into a word you don't know every now and then, or run into a grammatical rule that's almost never used. You can't really "master" a language. You're going to have hiccups along the road every now and then. It's okay. Nobody expects you to be as fluent as a native speaker, especially if you've never actually gone abroad and immersed yourself for a while.

Try looking at some simple stuff and remind yourself: "Hey, there's no way I could have read this years ago. I wouldn't even know that, and it's so simple. I wouldn't even TRY because it would intimidate me..."

I suck at grammar, sometimes I feel like I've gotten nowhere at all with my studdies. But then I look at my kanji flash cards, and look at the little numbers I put in the corners. "Wow, there's no way I've really gone through that many, right? I mean... I forgot some, chances are I don't remember most of these by heart!"

But then I test that thought out, and end up proving myself wrong. I had memorized a lot of them, a lot more than I thought I would. That brings my confidence up.