okay I'm interested in learing the language, and I bought me the
"Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese" (Isbn:
002864179-5)
what it said the best thing to do is to find someone I can talk with
in bouth langages.

So I'm looking for that someone. they don't have to be from my area
(though that is a plus; I'm from Duluth, mn) as long as they have one
of the 3 major instant messaging systems. (I do got a mic)
Also my gmt offset is -6 and I'm more often on in the evenings local time.

So what I want for my answer is the contact info for some one willing
to help me out with the japanese as I learn it, and is on a lot of the
times during my evenings. if they are local just beeing avaible to
talk with is good enough.

I take it that you aren't interested in learning to read or write? If
you are, you should mention that a tutor communicating with you should
have the software capable of dealing with written Japanese.

donkan-ga

ooh I'm interested in that too. I just figured I had to get down
learing how to talk it first.  since I had to learn english that way.
if I'm mistaken, I don't mind. in anycase I'm pretty shure that the
characters show up correctly.
I have installed the japense fonts and such from microsoft.