Hello Everyone,

My name is Jose Rafael Nieto Calderon, I’m 25 from Maracaibo, Venezuela.

I have to Thanks Koichi and Tofugu’s for letting me know about this site. I have been for over 5 years trying to learn Japanese by myself, But didn’t even got to learn the Hiragana. I was being very messy with how I was learning. I guess is not like English. Which I learned by myself. I know I have some problems with my English, but just need to polish it up with some conversations.

So I’m here to learn Japanese from ZERO, and polish up my English.

HUGS TO EVERYONE!
I hope to make a lot of friendships.

My phrase is “You will only see Obstacles when you take your eyes away from your Goal”. That also affected me the last years, lost sight but now I’m back on track (^- )

Hello hello from LAX to Maracaibo!

Good quote Jose!

Welcome to Edufire~

Welcome~ I hope to see you in some of my classes.

Welcome aboard Jose!
There is a lot of Japanese taught on eduFire, just keep your eyes open when scrolling through the classes section ;-)
Enjoy your classes…. See you around!

Hi Jose! Welcome to eduFire :) I see you are registered for classes which I am sure you will enjoy. It would be great if you could attend an orientation session for new students. click here
Talk soon :)

Thank you everyone, Yeah I’m amazed that there are soooooo many interesting classes, I’m a Computer Science Student and well I’m just simply amazed.

Thanks for the Welcome Katherine, Kanna, Tim and Debbie.

Debbie I registered for an orientation session, I had to do some changes in my schedule but it looks like there will be no problems.

Thank you for the Advice, I’m very grateful to you for your advice.

hi jose, welcome to edufire, bienvenido a edufire jose

Welcome in the family and hugs back 2U! :)

Welcome Jose!! Great to have you here. BTW, what are epales? :)

Thank you for the welcome, Abdul, Lyne and Jon.

‘Epales’ is a word we use here in Maracaibo, don’t know if the other places of Venezuela use it. That is like ’Hello’+’How are you?’ ’Hola’+’Como estas?’ in one word. Is very informal, It was an invention of some wacky Maracaibo Folk.

We also have a word here ‘Anikazo’ that is, how can I explain it. Some here found the word ‘Aniki’ from Japanese was cool. and made a new word ‘Anikazo’ meaning ‘Friend who you have a big trust’ ‘Amigo a quien le tienes confianza’. Now everyone here use it. At least in my Region we cause distortion of many languages, hahaha.

Hi Jose :) That is is great that you are able to go to the orientation class. I may see you there!

Hi Jose,

Welcome to eduFire! I really like your quote….very true! :) Have fun here!

Hey Jose, welcome to eduFire!

Hi Jose, Hajimemashite!
Welcome to eduFire! Nice to meet you!
-Van

Welcome to eduFire! Ciao! Dario