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I want to learn Japanese

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villageidiot111

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I've thought about doing this for a while, and with the summer coming up I figure I'll finally have some time to get started. I'm pretty fluent in latin, so I know exactly what I'm getting myself into.

Do any of you have experience learning Japanese? I was hoping to pick up a book or perhaps a computer program to help me. With Latin there aren't a lot of options to choose from, but with Japanese its overwhelming.

I would appreciate any suggestions atot has to offer.
 
I just picked it up. The best way however to learn Japanese is to enroll in a course. As with any language it requires a lot of dedication and constant practice. I learnt the katakana and hiragana writing styles and now am working on my kanji.
For me, I found it to be easy since it's mostly phonetic. But what gets you is the use of particles in the language. I think that takes a lot of time to get straight.
 
I'm currently enrolled in second year Japanese. For the first year we used Nakama I, and Nakama II for the second. It truly does require a lot of practice, because for the kanji (chinese characters), you can forget em really quickly if you never memorized the meanings. The book itself is more than likely only meant to be used with classes, so I can't actually tell you how good it is if you were learning on your own.

I'm not sure if other languages are like this, but they basically make you memorize certain structures. So anything they ask you, you answer using the same sentence structure. They kind of expect you to be able to mess with the language and make your own sentences with the HELP of the structures, but for me at least, I find it really hard. You may like it.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/
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so epic

I took 4 semesters of Japanese and knew quite a bit of spoken and kanji but has most been lost since.
(I can speak with a dictionary for vocabulary)

I quit when I changed my career focus, but there were a bunch of people like in that website.

The anime guys/girls are annoying, the people who say stupid stuff like baka and other profanity in the middle of class(some were expelled by the teacher)

they also seemed to feel the need to add stupid titles like -chan to the professor's name even tho she was like twice their age, and she didn't really find it cute or endearing at all, good way to get the boot heh
 
I tried to learn by myself for a few years to no avail before I enrolled in a course at my college, but that might just be my personality. To learn a language on your own you need a lot of perseverance, I'd say. Plus, one of the important aspects of learning a language is conversation with others, which a class will always provide. Some places have conversation clubs, if you live in a city or near a university you might want to look into something like that. When it comes to textbooks and internet resources, my class started with Genki, which I'd recommend as a beginner's textbook. One of the best sites that I've been using a lot recently (although you'll need to first familiarize yourself with the writing systems of hiragana and katakana at least) is Japanese Reading Tutor- when you copy and paste Japanese text into it, it will create a page where most (if not all) of the words become links to their definitions. Best of luck!
 
Originally posted by: villageidiot111
I've thought about doing this for a while, and with the summer coming up I figure I'll finally have some time to get started. I'm pretty fluent in latin, so I know exactly what I'm getting myself into.

Do any of you have experience learning Japanese? I was hoping to pick up a book or perhaps a computer program to help me. With Latin there aren't a lot of options to choose from, but with Japanese its overwhelming.

I would appreciate any suggestions atot has to offer.
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Knowing Latin has no bearing at all on learning Japanese! I studied Latin, Russian, and Spanish before studying Japanese and my knowledge of those languages was totally irrelevant.

Japanese is hard - I really think if you tried learning it on your won you will just get aggravated. It would be best to find some continuing education course somewhere or if there is a Japanese cultural center near you perhaps they offer lessons.

There is effectively three different "alphabets" between the katakana, hiragana, and kanji. The kanji then is written, primarily, in kaisho, gyosho, and sosho - kaisho and gyosho are somewhat related, but sosho is like learning yet an entire new set of kanji. All of that is just reading the characters - when speaking many words have two different pronunciations; the older Chinese pronunciation and the Japanese pronunciation. It gets a bit crazy.

For learning how to write the kanji and kana, I reccomend Japanese Kanji and Kana

Regardless of what you do, good luck to you!

 
who needs japenese language iam happy with japense, cartoons and p*rn🙂)

does any one has any tip for me i wanna learn spanish at home
without buying a book or any classes
any good online sites

 
Originally posted by: haffey
if it's anything like Chinese, good fucking luck
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Chinese isn't THAT hard if you have decent teachers. I can't imagine learning on your own, though. Learning how to pronounce things at first is so alien.
 
Originally posted by: villageidiot111
I've thought about doing this for a while, and with the summer coming up I figure I'll finally have some time to get started. I'm pretty fluent in latin, so I know exactly what I'm getting myself into.
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Japanese is in no way based in Latin...as I'd assume you know. That won't help you at all. Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, etc would be much easier with the dead language knowledge.

I took Japanese for 2 years way back in High School. 15 years later, all I remember how to say is "I speak Japanese very little, please treat me nicely!"

My advice: move to Japan. Language is difficult if you don't use it constantly. Even more-so if the language has no grammatical/structural similarity with what you are used to (romantic).
 
definitely take a first year community college course as that'll give you a good start. Along with that, start watching children's shows (like the Sesame's street of Japan) that uses simple language you can understand, and then work your way up to subtitled Japanese Dramas/Anime. Immersion is always the best way to learn a language.
 
I've started with the Pimsleur Japanese course. Thought being an IT person that could speak Japanese would be a benefit. Who knows... still, interesting to learn a new language.
 
Do you
A) Watch a lot of Anime
B) Do, or wish you did, drive a Honda civic
C) Small white and squirrly
D) Beat off to tentacle porn
E) All of the above
 
It's pretty cool being Japanese and being able to speak and write English but I don't about the other way around though. It makes you sound like you have an asian fetish.
 
The SUN use to make our outdoor deck and patio space so hot and unfortable, we couldn't use it.

That was until we discovered the Sun Setter Retractable Awning.
 
Originally posted by: hiromizu
It's pretty cool being Japanese and being able to speak and write English but I don't about the other way around though. It makes you sound like you have an asian fetish.
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I feel like an egg learning Chinese. I figure it'll be useful, though.
 
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