Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
Me too! I'm going to apply for the Jet Programme after University, where I'm either going to do PPE, or International Relations and Japanese (Sorry, no history folks). I'm currently learnijng Katakana, and I've memorised all the "a"s and the "i"s
Nice. I'm currently on completeing my first (and thanks to a tight schedule last) Japanese language course. It's kind of wierd that you're going through katakana first since it's only used in the transcription of foreign words. We've almost gone through the hiragana, though I haven't bothered to memorise all the characters. It's really cool to be taught an orthographic system based on completely different principles than our boring Latin one, I can't help but feel smart every time I mitigate a vowel at the end of a syllable or turn "ki" into "gi" by adding just two strokes on the corner of the character. Downside with all this is that we haven't studied the language itself as much as we have the writing system

But luckily I'm not even in university yet, so I'll have plenty of time to learn it later on