Learning Japanese

[Kur]

Originally posted by: uhohs

Originally posted by: Kur
If your serious about it my thoughts are that you should start to learn some here.

Japanese is broken into 3 languages pretty much, Hiragana, Katkana, and Kanji. The first 2 being the Japaneses characters and kanji being the English type characters. I HIGHLY suggest you ignore kanji until you learn hiragan and katkana. Once you do this start to study how to put sentences together because the sentence structure is somewhat different then English is.

http://www.thejapanesepage.com/news.php Is a GREAT place to start. This is also a good ebook they sell to get started.

lol...
i'll let a real japanese correct you. 🙂

Fixed a sentence, I was thinking of Romaji not kanji.

? What is wrong in that?

if I am wrong please correct it.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Our family did the whole have Japanese foreign exchange girls live with us for a year thing. Also did German, Sweden, Italian, Chinese, and Korean. I was able to pick up a little from them. Course if you are living alone I don?t think you can do this it would be kind of weird....

This post is seriously lacking in detail. Care to elaborate on the foreign exchange girls that were living in your house, apparently throughout adolescence? Surely...there is something to tell 😉

On Topic--I took Japanese for 2 years way abck in High School. All I remember how to say is , my name, that I speak Japanese very minimally, and to please treat me nicely. I speak it very politely, too...so that actually helps 🙂
Anyhoo, it was a pain in the ass to learn (perhaps b/c out teacher was insane), so my advice is to not even try...

 

[Funyuns101]

why don't you just do Teach For America and teach english in japan for 1-2 years - pick up some japanese while you're at it~

 

[OokiiNeko]

Katakana first - Japanized foreign words, easiest to learn.

Hiragana second - every Japanese word can be written in Hiragana.

Kanji (along the way) - some are easy because they are like pictographs. Once you understand the association (what Americans would associate is not what Japanese associate).

Do NOT learn from a female. If you do, you will have to unlearn some phrases as you progress in knowledge.

Boku wa namakemono, dakara boku no Nihongo wa mama.

As to teaching English for a year or two, research the schools carefully. I have heard that some are not so good to work for.

Not Japanese, just live in Japan.