Welcome to プロジェクト J, a group/clan dedicated to discussing and showing interest to anything Japanese related. Please Respect eachother in here and Try to enjoy yourself. (:



>>>Do you...
- enjoy japanese music [whatever genre it may be]
- like anime
- read manga
- like to eat japanese food
- interested in the japanese culture
- like japanese video games
- cosplaying
- is learning japanese
- or if ur japanese
- speak engrish? x]

YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE? THEN YOU BELONG HERE [;






>>>Why Join...?

1. Join to enhance ur knowledge about the japanese culture
2. perhaps even learn/teach a little japanese?
3. we can discuss ur favorite artist/food/anime/manga/movie/game/ etc
4. show that ur proud
5. Its always nice to be in an Interest Group






>>>PROJECT AT THE MOMENT--
1. recruiting members
2. making a button for the clan members





>>>ProJect News:
~the clan is growing and i hope you all stay active. i will mostly be posting any announcements on the first post.. after all that would be most organized. i will probably make a nice nice..or so i hope nice button in a few days. [; okay.. lets cast votes. what should be the theme of the button? like..food..rock bands? anime? etc etc. :]





>>>Members:
bakagrl79
ranmatatsumaru
Black-a-nese
csk
Shiro
Miyuki-chan
yukichanxp
kuzzywuzzy
Jasel
pecotosumairu
Saint Legends
w97m_generic
Eclectic Asian
Shinjuku
keitaro55
Nathan Rahl
missmiyouko
aznpeople
monkeyeatbananas
sharapova



>>>ETC
Please support the clan and put the clan name in your sig if possible.
If you want it in japanese here it is---
プロジェクトJ

I wouldn't mind joining your clan. I'm a huge fan of manga and anime.

alright ^^. i'll come up with the signature later.

Alrighty Then Finally somebody made this Clan
Yeah I’ll Join I’m a Otaku-4-Life lol

your in ^^

-bump- [see yuki? there is this clan already. next time check? [;]]

am a huge anime fan so i would love to join

You know, being an otaku is suppose to be an insult.

depends on how u look at it. i think of otaku as a anime fan.. not as some people think of it as a obnoxious stupid fan. anyways csk ur in [;

brain T.. thanks for announcing?

lik baka said... otaku doesnt alwaiis hafta be an insult...being obsessed with j@p music..hehe n giant pocky....mmmmm...pocky lolz ^^> am i makin u hungry baka?..hehe

are you askin to join. [; .. u know u wanna be part of my loyal armies. kekeke. >:]

btw what anime's are u guys/gals watching right now? i am watching Last Exile right now and i must say its kick @$$

REALLY ur watching last exile? omg..will u explain to me what it's about.. lolololz.. i got the first few episodes on DVD. .but i never watched past the first episode.. cause it got sorta confusing.. hmm. i havn't watched any anime lately. i';ve been gaming alot.

the last anime i finished was full metal alchemist.. i think.. xD i've been reading alot of manga.. it's getting unhealthy.. and wallet=getting smaller. xD

I love all things food related.
Especially Iron Chef.

Count me in.

yupyups. ur. in.

ooh.. iron chef.. gotta love it. lols

yupyups. ur. in.

ooh.. iron chef.. gotta love it. lols

yupyups. ur. in.

ooh.. iron chef.. gotta love it. lols

wow
I get three spots in the clan?








haven't watched any for awhile now
last was Berserk, I think

and Millenium Actress..... DO NOT WATCH THIS!!!!!

i havent completly finished watching it yet just the first 8 episodes and i think its a lot like fullmetal alchemist (loved that as well)in the sense u wont find out exactly whats going on till the last few episodes.
but basically i think its ur classic bad guy wants to take over the world and needs something (in this case the girl Al) to achieve his goal. the heroes Claus and Leiv? want to protect her.
but the reason i really like it is the animation. its the perfect blend of traditional and CG and not overdone like AppelSeed. Plus the OST is also quite catchy.
i really recomend u watch it cause so far i think its really good.



hey shiro do u watch iron chef thats dubed in american?
those are so funny. i just love this show for a good laugh

not all the time, but every now and then
the intro is hilarious
especially the host, who refuses to have his voice dubbed 2
and the cooking part is actually fairly interesting
the cooks make such unique dishes, and what they are doing is usually very well explained
makes me hungry....

Oh, right, forgot this part...
last time I checked, it was dubbed in English

bakagrl79, u know ima join. so yeahhs- lols. lalala... bored ><;;;

kk ur in yuki.

anyways.. i really dont get last exile. lols. it seems liek the new gundam series to me.. except no gundams? xD.. wells the opening is really cool tho.. thats was the thing that got me into it in the first place.

I would be honored to join this lovely establishment.

I study Japanese a bit. And yes, I do watch anime, although that's not the only reason I study Japanese. I read some manga, but not much. I do enjoy various Japanese music. I've trained a bit in Aikido. And I'm interested in Japanese culture, history, etc.

よろしくおねがいします。

よろしく, kuzzyさん。
何どしですか。
僕は鳥です。

よろしく kuzzywuzzyくん. なに-じんですか？



...おんなのこですか？..



blah.. jkjk. [; i love writing in hiragana more.. hehe.. i like how it looks.

i'll join. I really like anime. Not quite to sure what Magne is but I like that too. Is Japanese a really hard language to learn?

cool. jasel ur in..lols

i saw u.. like "jasel" i was like...hmmm bad news.. is there something wrong with the clan? BAN? omgomg.. jasel..=mod..xDD

well japanese isn't all that hard to learn. i just find memorizing like 60 new characters in kanji or something hard.. -___-;;

-edit- i mean.. that is .. if u only got like.. one or two days to do it.. and ur lazy rike mehs. [;

lol i have no authority in this section anyway.

hmm any books or software you can recommend to me for Japanese?

hmm... i dont know since my hs offers japanese class.. pretty rare..

but i use this textbook called "adventures in japanese" or something like that.. it's pretty good.. and a good dictionary for really new people that i started out with is japanese-english, english-japanese random house dictionary

僕は戌です。

This is your year coming up, eh



アメリカじんです。
おとこのひとです。



Manga is basically just Japanese comic books. The anime you've seen most likely originated as a manga, which was then animated. I don't think Japanese is hard if you're willing to put forth effort. Unfortunately, I'm quite lazy



Books are generally better sources for information than software, but the audio/visual reinforcement that you get with software is invaluable if you don't have other ways of hearing/interacting with the language. I've used Talk Now! and the Rosetta Stone softwares, but not much. If there's a used book store near you, try to pick up a fairly recent Japanese text book for cheap. And immerse yourself in Japanese media so you are used to hearing/saying the words.

I took classes, so I don't know what books would be good.
But you could try Pimsleur tapes; they're fairly easy to find in newsgroups.


うん。
I hadn't really thought about that, but I guess you're right.
Techinically, mine's 金鳥, which won't happen until I'm 60.
This one is 土鳥､ね？

I thought it was "犬," not "戌".
It's been too long since my classes.
Oh well.

木鳥, I believe... that correct?

犬 and 戌 are both いぬ, but I believe 戌 is specific to the Chinese zodiac "dog". Like I said, I really am not very far along, Kanji-wise.

Jasel... I have both of those software titles that I mentioned. I have the CD images if you would really get use out of them. PM me if you're interested. I have some Pimsleur, too.

yeah, 戌 is for the どし, I just write that one so rarely that I forgot about it
haha you're right, it is Wood phase
not sure why I thought Earth.....

How many classes did you take, Shiro? Are you fluent/close? I've only formally taken one semester, and sadly I kind of blew it off and slacked in there. I've done a fair bit of studying on my own, but unfortunately, I tend to start slacking and backtracking after a while. I'm much too fickle

What about you, baka? Are you in your first semester?

I took the three years worth offered in high school (three one term classes), and spent two weeks in Japan on an exchange.
I am nowhere near fluent.

And now I have barely spoken any for....... 5-6 years or so.
Fortunately I took a Mandarin class last year, so I can still read kanji, but they are used differently between the two languages.
There aren't many Japanese people where I live; I have one Japanese friend right now, but I don't talk to him in Japanese very often.

I speak enough to survive in Japan with, but not enough to have an intelligent conversation.
It's too easy to stop practicing a language, when you're not involved with it.


I was all set to head to Japan, but my visa got declined......
Looks like I might be off to China now.



*Just noticed you called me ばか*
あなたのあたまがわるいですね。

Hahaha... baka was actually referring to bakagrl

I wish my High School had offered Japanese. How much did the exchange help you? I would guess considerably so, but two weeks is quite short. I would like to do an exchange program, but I dunno how realistic that possibility is for me.

And yeah, not having anyone to practice with is a big downfall. I've tried to get friends interested in it, but none of them will stick to it

oh, haha that actually makes more sense


I learnt more in my two weeks in Japan, than I did in three terms in Canada.
I highly recommend doing an exchange program, if you have the chance.
Or, if you have a degree, go teach English for a year or two.
I would love to go back.

There are also monbukagakusho scholarships available, at least in Canada, to attend university, or to go to Japan to learn English.
http://momiji.arts-dlll.yorku.ca/japanese/monbusho.html
These are strictly for Canadians, but a similar arrangement may exist between Japan and other countries as well.

Bakagrl, プロジェクト J に入ってもいいですか。
このクラヌは面白くて楽しそうです 。
Man, this reminds me of my days as an undergrad. .

Yeah, I've heard that exchange programs help a lot. Thanks for the scholarship link, but I'm not in Canada, unfortunately. I'll just have to stick to it and maybe eventually swim over there



I have a feeling she's gonna say yes So how long did you study, peco?

Ah man, four years straight . Those Jpn. lessons can be hard when you get to the advance classes. It was actually one of my majors, the other one was linguistics 2 .

Ah, interesting. I assume you have a pretty good understanding, then. You study any other languages as well? Linguistics is really interesting, but I dunno if I'd go so far as to major in it. Do you use it in your career?

そうですか？ [;



i've been studying myself for a while. but as for taking proper class its been like a term= 1/2 yr? lols




lols. i could tell. hehe. i tag like ばかおんなのこ all over the place.


ur in [;. lols u know how u feel. first few weeks in japanese class was horrible. with the bad accent starters and ko-ni-chi-wa stuff. XDD bare wtih us noobs? lols.

Yea, I'm aight , I'd say I'm around at a high intermediate level for right now. I'm a tutor for begininner Japanese for students at my uni. I plan to be a translator or a teacher (depending if they're hiring^^') in Japan sometime next year, I still have graduate school to take care of (ah, man).



やった ! Thanks, oh don't worry, I also know how it is, and I'm not that strict like my teachers .

i mean..like.. not me..lols. i mean.. people who are REALLY bad in japanese.. and pronounce..in a such an amazingly bad way. i dont even get how they come up with it.. lolz.

oh lol, sorry . My bad, I see what you mean 2 .

lols yeah. so u took four years of japanese? .. are u in like college or somehting?

That's cool. What are you getting your masters in? Or going further? Have you taken the JLPT or are you planning on it?

im craving GREEN TEA ice cream again.. i just had it last night. >.><

o0o0oh i want to try that soo0 bad since my favorite girl group "morning Musume" memebers love it.. wonder where i could get it at ><

just went to the store and guess what? they had pocky XD
picked up a megaton box lmao when i'm at school that would last...like 3periods XD


on to anime.. been watching a lot lately but my favorite out of the bunch is... BECK!
*look at my sig* hehe its a cool anime
has to do with a band etc don't wanna ruin anything for you but really look into it
torrents are up for it at animesuki if ya looking for a taste

hmm.. i never heard of beck.

green tea ice cream.. they have it at almost every single japanese restaurant.. ice cream shop.. and also sometimes malaysian restuarants.. green tea ice cream is soo good.. i just had like a bucket of it yesterday with bubble tea and sushi.. lets say i got pretty..weird after weirds.. lols..

so i guess ur back in the cult? it's project j now a bigger range. not otaku as ur sig says. [;