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Post by Rabbit on Mar 6, 2013 5:16:38 GMT -8
I was searching up anime community tags on tumblr, and I happened to stumble on this one (although if this is the only forum that I actually saw so far). I'm glad that there aren't any chat-speakers on this site yet, as to be honest, I'm a bit of a grammar nazi (not that I would be bashing anybody if they had misspelled a word or two and/or if English wasn't their first language) when it comes to language outside of games, chatrooms, and cellphones. Truthfully, most of the anime communities that I see have a lot of those members... Especially the ones that go "nyahahahaha". Scary stuff.
Well, this is an introduction topic and not a rant, so onto about myself. I'd rather be referred to as "Rabbit" for now, as I only disclose my real (nick)name to those who are close. Hopefully I can make some pretty close friends here! Anyways, I love to draw - I've been drawing since... What, kindergarten? Not that I'm bragging, there's certainly lots of improvement that I need in my drawings. I tend to write occasionally, but they're usually short stories (trust me, I've never had the motivation to make an actually long fiction). The first anime that I've watched was Inuyasha, followed by Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan). My first manga book was... Naruto, but it wasn't the first in the series. Apparently in the past I was like "Oh, I'm going to buy a random-numbered manga book and just read from there!"... I also played a few games, such as the Pokemon games and the Final Fantasy series (except XIII, VI, and III) amongst my medium-sized list.
I'm currently a freshman at high school, and the only language that I'm trying to learn is Mandarin. I could only speak a few basic phrases (although I might be slow and ask "am I right" a lot) and recognize some characters here and there. I hope this wasn't too long for an introduction post, and I hope it wasn't boring to read. I hope to make some good impressions (and like I said, friends). So, greetings! I can't wait to watch this new forum grow and recruit more (grammatically mature) members. c:
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Post by Chip on Mar 7, 2013 0:02:59 GMT -8
Welcome! and no it wasn't to long! I'm just happy to see some a new face. I find it very odd that you found us through tumblr though. I'm in between being a grammar nazi and not being one. I like decent grammar but I hate it when grammar is terrible.
I'd love to see some of your drawings. I use to draw myself back in school. Inuyasha was one of my first animes as well. Even if its not the greatest I love it. My first manga was also Naruto, but I ended up dropping it a few years ago.
It's cool that your learning a language outside of Spanish, my high school never taught any other languages. Although Mandarin seems a bit random to me.
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 7, 2013 5:41:31 GMT -8
I believe Kirika did the tumblr advertising. :0
I hate it when the grammar is just terrible as well - the reason why I'm sort of big on the grammar thing is because I believe people could have a lot of time correcting themselves. Of course, there's some cases in which people have to hurry, but otherwise I wonder how they don't see the red squiggles under their misspelled words...
I might get around to posting my art in a bit as well!~ I remember how we bought some Inuyasha fighting games in the past, and as little kids, we would Google up images and trace over it. We USED to, now that we could draw by ourselves. I think the reason why my school had Mandarin is because people wanted to know Asian culture a little bit more. As for me - I enrolled in that class that way I would not only understand a bit of Chinese, but also get a better grip of Japanese a little. The two languages are a little close, but there's some obvious differences and the not-so-obvious differences.
There are some characters that Chinese and Japanese share, such as 日. While Mandarin prounounces it as "ri" (no, not literally RI but something like JI), Japanese pronounces it like "nichi" or something... Chinese has only one syllable for each character. For example, 你好 (nihao). I'm sure you're pretty familiar with that one! 你 means you, while 好 means good. You good? I went into a Spanish class, but everybody messed around so much, I wasn't sure whether or not we were behind. u_u;
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Post by Chip on Mar 8, 2013 20:07:34 GMT -8
I remember tracing a lot when I was younger, except it was of Dragon Ball Z. I think I stopped drawing sometime through high school.
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