Ah right, so you only got into competitive battling recently (: I haven't figured out how to use Super Training but I bet it's a whole lot easier to do EV training these days.
By the way, I know exactly what you mean by wanting to play with your favorites. I'm the same. One of my favorite Pokémon is Chatot and I'll always use it in game although I gotta say that it's pretty weak. (When will it get an evolution anyways? :P )
When it comes to competitive battling, I try to use Pokémon that I like as well. Which ones have you been using so far?
Oh, I didn't know you could actually choose whether you want to have Kanji or Hiragana in Pokémon games. That's really nice. If I should ever have a lot of free time, I might try to study Japanese for myself. But right now, I'm really busy with university, so I don't have much time for other things, unfortunately. What are you doing? Do you still go to school or do you attend college?
You know, when I received your visitor messages and saw what you replied about the English thing, I had to read it multiple times because it was so nice and heartwarming :D Thank you so much!
Anyways, my key to fluency is... speak the language as often as you can and try to talk to people who have it as a native language. Do something fun in the language, like watch a movie or play a video game. Because if something isn't fun, then how should you learn it? I've always felt that language classes in school are not that useful. I mean for the basics, they're good enough but if you really want to become fluent, using the langauge outside of class is much more efficient. At least in my opinion :D I've also tried to read books in French but it's a lot harder and I lose motivation after some time. I once played Pokémon FireRed in French which was pretty cool actually. I should do this again sometime xD
By the way, what language did your mother speak to you when you were a child?
Well, my mother learned the basics in school and spent some months on Malta afterwards. She also studied English and French in university. I guess, that's where my passion for languages comes from haha.
Oh wow, New York! That's awesome! I badly want to visit that place someday. It must be really cool to live there. (Although, to be honest, I'm more of a nature lover, so I probably wouldn't live there longer than a few years haha.)
I live in Vienna, Austria's capital. I guess, it's a lot smaller than New York, but since I lived most of my life in the country, I'm still not accustomed to it :D
Well thank you! I think that your comments are very thought-provoking as well. Some of the best on the entire forums.
(And sorry for so much text xD)
