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My first japanese post, please be gentle senpai.

Hello there, I'm Kesler, 20 years old and roughly employed at a shoe factory.
Well... this is kinda embarassing... I started to learn japanese this week, and as my guides told me, going public about it its somewhat helpfull [hope so...]. as you can probably see, english isnt my first language. I'm not good at it, but I can at least order a pizza, right?
Anyway, I already memorized hiragana and I'm finishing katana, I can write hiragana but didnt started with katakana. My goal its to start next week writing both as naturally as I can! Also, its my first time posting on a forum and stretching my english this far, although I already had long convos with a far far away friend, and play a lot of games, also most of my free time I spent on youtube, browsing good english chanels.
So... If I'm doing something wrong please tell. Hope you all are having a great week, till later! bye.
Keslersan

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It's great that you have started and I wish you an amazing success.

I'm writing this as somebody who has failed spectacularly at learning foreign languages, despite having lived in foreign countries for over 20 years, and despite having taught English as a foreign language for over 10 years. I've thought about it a lot isolated these reasons for my failure:

1. Because I'm an English native speaker I became lazy because I could always make myself understood in English (the international language).

2. Because so many people in foreign countries want to practice their English and so prefer to speak in English to me than in their own language.

3. Because I'm naturally not an outgoing person, and don't chat so much to random strangers and often prefer my own company and am not so talkative anyway, so I didn't take every opportunity to practice.

After reading your post I'm guessing you won't have any of these problems – obviously you are not a native English speaker, and the fact that you are writing this post means that you are quite an outgoing person. Once again, I wish you an amazing success.
 
"After reading your post I'm guessing you won't have any of these problems – obviously you are not a native English speaker, and the fact that you are writing this post means that you are quite an outgoing person. Once again, I wish you an amazing success."

Got me on the "obviously", now I'm worried. but I gotta finish my katakana study till monday! However, since I'm here, and you teach english... I'm up for any good advice Mr. Woozy, sir!
 
>Got me on the "obviously", now I'm worried.

Haha ... you're being too sensitive. I wrote, 'obviously' because you first wrote, 'english isnt my first language'.

Take it easy and relax. 'm sure you'll do well.
 

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