i cannot understand the meaning itself of '' それを書きます、何回です？''

>面白い日本語の本の名前は、何ですか？インターネットで買います。
漫画はどうかしら？　難しい漢字があっても隣にひらがながあるので、読みやすいと思います。
たとえば「のだめカンタービレ」。英語版も出ているので、日本語と一緒に読むとわかりやすいかも。

How about comics (called "manga")? If you find a difficult Kanji (Chinese character), you can also see "Hiragana" next to them.
For example, "Nodame Cantabile ". You can get Japanese version and English one. It would be very helpful.
Have fun!

I also recommend you to read some comic books. Japanese manga is really cool!
My recommendation is NANA.
http://www.amazon.com/Nana-1-Ai-Yazawa/dp/1421501082/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220556701&sr=8-3

Thanks for all your corrections! For some reason I never learned this difference between 「は」 and　「が」, but it makes the other differences easier to remember. I'll try to keep this in mind for the future.

I wasn't entirely sure whether to practice with anime and manga since I've heard the phrases and language are cartoonier than real Japanese--I'm a big fan of that aspect of the culture, though, so I don't have any problem with using that for serious study.

(Usually the Japanese version is hard to find or expensive... so I might have to find scanned pages--)

はじめまして。＾＾
「兎に角」なんて難しいことわざ知ってて驚きました。

私もノダメのカンタービレをお勧めします。
海外でも人気があるし、ネットでも探せばmoviesもありますよ。＾＾

こんにちは！
一緒に頑張りましょう！＾＾
また、日記アップしたら来ますね。＾＾

Let me give you a little tip on は and が.

Let's say you want to use 私は and 私が properly....

Whenever you want to imply "I (not somebody else / other people didn't
do it / other people are not it)," you say 私が.

Also, whenever you want to imply "(I don't know about other people, but) I,"
you say 私は often with stress on は.

This what you are implying is the key. Japanese people use this logic, but they process it so quickly, it's difficult for them to rationalize it. Also, all the grammatical rules and explanations derive from these two simple logics. Let me give you some example sentences here.....

私はすきだよ、それ。　(I don't know about other people, but) "I" like it.
私がやりました。　(Not someone else, but) "I" did it.
私はやりました。　(I don't know about other people, but) "I" did it.

By default, you use は. But, if you are not implying those two things I listed above, you often don't even say は or が。　So, don't bother to say は or が if you are just describing something with no implication. For example.....

"That dog was very big." Let's say you are just describing the dog with none of those implications I explained above. You say like...

その犬 (いぬ = dog) とっても大きかったよ。

The moment you say その犬は or その犬が, people (Japanese people) will automatically think you implied the dog was special in one of those two ways (two implications) I explained above.

Easy, huh? It will get automatic with a little bit of practice. Good luck.

Thanks for the tip, HADOMAN. What you said definitely makes a lot of sense... I just have a horrible feeling that I'll get so caught up in other parts of grammar that I'll overlook some of the differences. A lot of the trouble is with the mindset--but I'm sure you already understand the differences between Japanese and English. >__<

o_= perhaps the problem is I hear 「私は」 so often that I automatically think that they always go together?

I will keep this in mind the next time I put up a journal, though. Again, thank you. =D

問題な～い。　でも、the knowledge Japanese native speakers use in order to speak/write in Japanese is different from the knowledge that people use to describe and analyze Japanese language. I'm sure it's the same way in every language. I hear you. Unfortunately, mindset is often the only way to explain why people speak/write in certain ways.

こんばんは、　私の漫画のお勧めは、「ツルモク独身寮」ですが、ちょっと大人向けなので難しいかもしれません。 でもむちゃくちゃ面白いですよ。

比較的、簡単で読みやすい漫画のお勧めは「ドラえもん」とか「ちびまるこちゃん」です。 子供向けだし、日本人はほとんどみんな知っているほど有名だし、勉強になると思います。