こんにちは, everybody! :)

My name is Gustav, I’m 22 and live in the small Scandinavian country known as Denmark. I have always been fascinated by Japan and its (weird, but lovely) culture. Some time ago I decided that I wanted to be serious about learning the language, too. I have tried numerous times over the years, but without much luck.

This time I am ready to be more serious about my commitment. Together with using online resources (such as this), I have also joined an introductory class in Japanese that will begin next month.

During the last week I have been going through season 1. Today I purchased a monthly membership. Despite the many negative comments on this forum, so far I really enjoy TextFugu. At least it’s a great introduction for beginners – dunno about advanced level learners, but that’ll come much later for me. I also considered Japanese Lingua Lift, which has a similar vibe, but I settled on this. I enjoy Koichi’s style of writing. I can understand that he is quite busy with a lot of things, but still I think he seems like a really nice guy. I also enjoy using the Human Japanese app on my iPad, as well as some podcasts from JapanesePod101.

I recently completed the GBA game Mother 3 via the English patch. I hope that I at some point in the future I will be able to play the game in its original language. Same goes for one of my favorite authors, Haruki Murakami, but my estimate is that it will take many years before I’ll be able to read one of his books in Japanese :)

I also hope to travel to Japan within the next few years. It has been a lifelong dream to visit the Land of the Rising Sun.

In my daily life, I study Medialogy at Aalborg University. Basically, it’s everything about computers, games, media and technology. My focus is on developing videogames. Other than that I enjoy karate (Wado-Ryu) and SCUBA diving.

• This topic was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by  Gustav Dahl.