And couldn’t resist the cuteness of the little drum guy. BUT I’m in no shape to try and translate a game just yet (or to drop $50 on one either).
So I took matters into my own hands and knitted myself one up ( あみぐるみ ). He’s so cute!
http://tinyurl.com/3nvpzjo & http://tinyurl.com/3gnykrl

But I also wrote the pattern for him in Japanese, as I had just learned that 丸 can mean round and when you knit toys you knit “in the round”. All you really need to know other than that are numbers and the knitting terms (which I left in English save for あむ).
Ta-da ~ http://tinyurl.com/3fq6slc

Anyway, I thought this would be a neat way to kni-..er I mean あむ from now on. And a neat way to help me study/ remember things.

Do any of you do this? Somehow work Japanese into other things you already do?

*Also, I realize on my handwritten I have あみ instead of あむ I didn’t realize this when I was making him until it was already written, oops!

I changed it around in order to help my pronounciation, but now I start to get some setences which is really cool :D

So what I do, basically is, I turn the languange of what I usually use to Japanese, I talk with my Japanese friend on skype, I watch Japanese series or films and as I am really interested in Japanese culture and history I try to read the info in Japanese. It’s still a bit hard because of all the kanji but the more I read the better I get at it :)

Also I would like to ask, have any of you used any web to find Japanese penpals, or just to talk to a Japanese person? Is it safe? xD As I have my friend I never thought of using that, but you never know x)

Another thing I do I suppose it try to cook Japanese meals, I have the Just Bento Cookbook and it is AWESOME. I’ve become really fond of tamagoyaki. :d

Pretty good site for finding radio stations