Get to know each other! (jpod101 user profiles)

[yourhighness]

Name: Johannes Söderberg
Age: 20
Place of birth: Gothenburg, Sweden
Furthest location travelled: Colombia, South America (to become China in a month)
Places you want to go: Iwama, Ibaraki. Tokyo. Timbuktu, Mali. I am a curious about Seatle.
Spoken languages: English, Swedish, German
Written Languages: Same as above
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese plus everything that comes in my way.
Hobbies: Is Japanese necessary to say? Playing the viola is my biggest passion but practising all kinds of music is the shit. Video games is quite fun that too.
Occupation: Bartender
Education: Bartender, sailor, musician and firefighter.
Favorite Movies: Eureka, Lost in Translation. KILL BILL.
Favorite Bands: The Who, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Calexico, Beethoven and lots more.
Favorite Video Games: Shenmue, sega rally 2, zelda series.
Ultimate Goal: Is it possible to become japanese if one is 190 cm and white as a ghost, have round eyes and speaks swedish?!!
Live a long joyful life (sounds pathetic?).

[JockZon]

Hej Johannes, en till svensk, så roligt!

Yoroshiku.

[yourhighness]

Yoroshiku!

Alltid kul att hitta svenskar på en sån här site.
(Allways fun to find swedish people on a site like this)

My thoughts about how I will master japanese:

I started two years ago but have only studied by my self. In my own pace wich meen I take it really slowly. My goal is to be well prepared before I fly over there and really learn everything. I have found a school in Hitachi ( http://www.jsdi.or.jp/%7Enihongo/index.en.html ) that are intresting but I want to know more about it before I go there.
Hopefully I can take the JLPT 1-kyu after 1,5 or 2 years. I am confident that it is possible if I bould up a feeling for the language and learn to recognice 2000 kanji using the book: "Remembering the Kanji", by Heisig.

What do you alla think about my plans?

[refebure]

Name: José
Age: 24
Place of birth: Ponce, PR
Furthest location travelled: Paris, France
Places you want to go: Japan, Korea, Italy, Argentina
Spoken languages: Español, English, Japanese
Written Languages: All of the above (Actually my written Japanese is better than my grammar )
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, Mandarin (I put it in hiatus because I want to concentrate on Japanese)
Hobbies: Languages, 国内旅行
Occupation: Student
Education: I'm 1 year away from a BA in Computer Sciences.
Favorite Movies: Battle Royale, La desaparición de García Lorca, Fresa y chocolate, Ratas, ratones y rateros
Favorite Bands: Sí Señor, La Secta All-Stars, Black Guayaba, Garbage
Favorite Video Games: None recently, but I love Final Fantasy Tactics!
Ultimate Goal: To get my degree and leave the island!! London, Tokyo/Osaka, Paris... I haven't decided yet.

[sutekikanojyo]

Name: Marta
Age: 18
Place of birth: Miami
Furthest location travelled: California
Places you want to go: Japan, London, Paris
Spoken languages: English, Spanish
Written Languages: English, Spanish
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: Roses and learning Japanese
Occupation: Full-time Student (starting this fall)
Education: High School +1 year of college, starting University of Miami in August
Favorite Movies: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Favorite Bands: Simple Plan, Matchbox 20, Green Day
Favorite Video Games: DDR Max2, not much of a vid game fan ^.^
Ultimate Goal: to create a program for teenagers and parents to bridge the rift often created between them.

[ali17]

Name:Ali
Age:24
Place of birth:Honolulu, Hawaii
Furthest location travelled:Europe(I grew up in the military so I was all over the place)
Places you want to go:I want to revisit Europe and go to a few of the places that I never made it to Greece, Ireland, Lower half of Italy, and also to Japan of course, China and Austarlia are also Hight on the list
Spoken languages:English
Written Languages:English
Languages in the process of learning:Japanese is the main one but also Chinese, French, German, Spanish
Hobbies:Breakdancing, learning to not kill plants, cello
Occupation:MOhter
Favorite Video Games:Final Fantasy Series, Puzzle Games
Ultimate Goal:

[Stealth]

Name: Anna
Age: 20
Place of birth: Rhode Island
Furthest location travelled: North Carolina
Places you want to go: Japan, England, Italy, and Spain
Spoken languages: English
Written Languages: Latin, English, Spanish
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese and Ukranian
Hobbies:Reading, Music, Art, and Computers
Occupation: College Student/ Adiministartive Assistant
Education: College
Favorite Movies: I don't watch movies much any more.
Favorite Bands: Dir en Grey, Larc~en~ciel, MUCC (Japanese Bands), Linkin Park, System of a Down, and many others
Favorite Video Games: currentley FFXI Online, Halo, and Halo 2
Ultimate Goal: To be a ESL Teacher...only if I can pass the PRAXIS I Exams...

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

[lolillo]

Name: Manuel Martin-Fernandez
Age: 45 (46 in a week's time)
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain.
Furthest location travelled: Which is furthest Vienna or Inverness, Scotland? Anyway, now I'm living in La Palma island which is a long long way from Madrid.
Places you want to go: Anywhere - Japan, the Himalayas, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, the South American jungle, Iran...
Spoken languages: Spanish, English
Written Languages: Spanish, English
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, German, Farsi, ...
Hobbies: Languages, trekking, music, reading
Occupation: Teller in a bank
Education: Degree in Veterinary Medicine (I never worked as such though and now it's forgotten).
Favorite Movies: Martin (Hache), Dancing With Wolves, Thelma & Louise
Favorite Bands: The Beatles, The Smiths, Martha And The Muffins, Kraftwerk, Orbital, Coldplay, The Cure,...
Favorite Video Games: I'm too old for that.
Ultimate Goal: To be able to live without having to work: pack up everything and go to Japan to study Japanese in-situ (although now that there's a new restrictive law in Spain protecting the non-smokers from tobacco smoke, I'll find it hard in Japan, tough smokers as they are).

[Belton]

Name: Robert Belton
Age: old
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
Furthest location travelled: Sakurajima
Places you want to go: back to Kyoto, back to Paris, back to Greece, back to Venice. but can you ever go back?
Spoken languages: English, Ta beagan Gaelige agam (Irish), 日本語がちょっとできますでもまだ下手です。(Japanese), I've forgotten most of my French I think! Je ne parle quere Francais.
Written Languages: Not so much being able to write but I am better at reading the languages above.
Languages in the process of learning: 日本語
Hobbies: Japanese, My website (about Japanese), Anime (in Japanese!), Reading, Mac computers, Photography, Film.
Occupation: TV Studio Manager at a University (sounds grander than it is)
Education: lacking
Favorite Movies: Grave of the Fireflies, My Life as a Dog, Whispers of the Heart, Baraka,
Favorite Bands: Saw Doctors, Ulfuls, Blue Hearts, Polysics
Favorite Video Games: Civilisation. given up now in preference to learning Japanese. Steals an enormous amount of time if you let it. (but with Civ4 out....)
Ultimate Goal: Contentment.
In learning Japanese-- to be able to have a real conversation in the same way I can in English.

[BlueSpikes]

Name: Simen
Age: 19
Place of birth: Norway, Oslo
Furthest location travelled: Luxembourg
Places you want to go: Japan , and someplace that is outside europe
Spoken languages: Norwegian, English
Written Languages: Norwegion, English
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: Computers, Playing games, Webpage making.
Occupation: Well you can call it Labratory assistant.
Education: Well I am not sure how to explain the Norwegian school system in english. But I have the 9 years you got to have. And 2 years in school to learn about chemistry
Favorite Movies: Lord Of The Rings. and more (I dont remember the names)
Favorite Bands: Cradle Of Filth, Children Of Bodoom, Gallhammer
Favorite Video Games: Unreal Tournament, Final Fantasy (have played 6,7,8,9,10,10-2)
Ultimate Goal: well, I am not sure yet

[Jason]

Final Fantasy (have played 6,7,8,9,10,10-2)

You should try to ahold of 4, too.

[Bueller_007]

Final Fantasy (have played 6,7,8,9,10,10-2)

You should try to ahold of 4, too.

5 is also quite good, I've heard.

[BlueSpikes]

Final Fantasy (have played 6,7,8,9,10,10-2)

You should try to ahold of 4, too.

5 is also quite good, I've heard.

I want to try those, but I dont have them ..... love the FF games (I cannot say that I liked 10 and 10-2 that much)

[Jason]

Final Fantasy (have played 6,7,8,9,10,10-2)

You should try to ahold of 4, too.

5 is also quite good, I've heard.

Eh. It's not bad, but it's definitely one of the weaker titles in the series. I played through it once and enjoyed it, but it never inspired me to want to play it again.

[metablue]

How can you guys leave out 11! o.O

Well, It's the only one I've played. I heard that 10 was amazing, but I couldn't get past that breaking glass before each fight and then the way each person leaps forward in turn to make their move. Actually I couldn't get past being unable to save and then dying and having to sit through that really long opening scene that you can't skip, but I watched my little brother play and the breaking glass seemed annoying too.