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Learning Japanese

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RadioHead84

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Anyone speak Japanese fluently or is working on it? I graduate in the near future and don't feel like getting a 9-5 office job at the moment. I would love to go to Japan and REALLY learn Japanese. I hear going to a language school is the best way and you can become somewhat fluent in a year or so.


any thoughts?
 
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....
 
I took japanese for 3 years at my high school (very tough japanese program) so I'm okay at it. It's been a long while so I'm not very fluent anymore because I haven't touched it since I graduated. I passed the profiency exam for level 4 though =).

From what I've seen, your best bet is to go there and learn it.

Oh yeah, it is pretty damn HARD to learn.
 
I met someone last year at a youth hostel in Narita(largest international airport closest to Tokyo) who teaches English in a small Japanese town near the north end of Honshu. He told me that he was having a great time and learning Japanese as well. His reason to live overseas for at least a year was to try and get a career with the state dept(FBI or CIA) or consular dept. when he comes back. This was last July and he was on his way to India to meet some friends to take a small vacation.

Personally, I lived in Japan exactly 20 years ago for about three and a half months. If I had to do it over again, I would spend about three weeks max in each Asian country or until I am sick of traveling and the $$ runs out.
 
Originally posted by: Kaieye
I met someone last year at a youth hostel in Narita(largest international airport closest to Tokyo) who teaches English in a small Japanese town near the north end of Honshu. He told me that he was having a great time and learning Japanese as well. His reason to live overseas for at least a year was to try and get a career with the state dept(FBI or CIA) or consular dept. when he comes back. This was last July and he was on his way to India to meet some friends to take a small vacation.

Personally, I lived in Japan exactly 20 years ago for about three and a half months. If I had to do it over again, I would spend about three weeks max in each Asian country or until I am sick of traveling and the $$ runs out.
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indeed.

My dream would be to travel europe for a few months, then go to japan to study...


this costs money tho.
 
Originally posted by: nonameo
I think I'm learning Japanese
I think I'm learning Japanese
I really think so!
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Took the words right out of my mouth... I was just about to post this.
 
I actually signed up for Japanese my second semester of college, but dropped it after the first day because all the other students were fat nerds. I kid you not almost of all them had those silk looking dragon and dragon ball z shirts. I couldn't believe it.
 
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I actually signed up for Japanese my second semester of college, but dropped it after the first day because all the other students were fat nerds. I kid you not almost of all them had those silk looking dragon and dragon ball z shirts. I couldn't believe it.
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lol, i would totally show up wearing morning musume shirts to freak people out.
 
Originally posted by: nonameo
I think I'm learning Japanese
I think I'm learning Japanese
I really think so!
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😀

I was debating posting this, but you beat me by a couple hours and I may have reached my nef limit for the month
 
Best way is probably to just go there and listen to how the natives speak, it'll probably be hard at first but becomes easier as time goes on
 
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 is more like the chinese 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.
 
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.
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lol...
i'll let a real japanese correct you. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
I'm taking it now in college and it's not that hard...
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Maybe you are a natural at learning languages. I've taken a class before and it was hard but I probably made it worse cause I didn't try very hard. If I put enough effort into it I have no doubt I could do it though, i just can't half ass it.
 
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