Since a few of you wanted to learn Japanese

I'm gonna try and put together some stuff to help teach the basics, such as simple phrases and how to read hiragana.

I'm not very good at teaching, but I'll try and provide resources, and of course, you can always ask me for help. I'm not exactly fluent, but every bit of practice helps me as well.

A friend recommended this site as a good resource: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/cover.html

Well, I suppose it would be good to start with "ganbatte!", or "do your best!"

(すごいチーズこの非常にお寄せいただき、ありがとうございました！)

I've got a couple more links with some useful stuff, one is the site for the textbooks I use for my classes.

http://katakana.live-japanese.com/
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/self.en.html

As for actual teaching and learning... well, I'm a writer and not a teacher. I'll try and think of ways those of you interested, can actually use this stuff.

べんきょうしますか？