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how to learn japanese language?
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on 2005-07-21 07:09:16 |
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what is the first thing that i have to do if i want to learn how to speak and write in japanese i'm just so into anime mp3s and i wish that i could understand them so that i could appreciate them much better =p~ -sorry if my question is stupid -_-' |
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by night_link
on 2005-07-21 10:43:25 (edited 2005-07-21 10:43:44)
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| Take a look at the other threads, because this is a question where you can pretty much put together the answer from the other threads relating to this. |
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Re: how to learn japanese language?
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on 2005-07-21 14:07:07 |
| ohhh that's kinda hard =p isn't there a formal way? like getting a teacher, reading a book, going to a certain site or something? he he he =p but i'll try that thing too. soooo many threads -_-' |
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| My friend bought me a kana book and I started working on it. It's pretty useful considering I had no teacher. As for the construction of sentences...me go figure out later. |
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by night_link
on 2005-07-21 17:33:44
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Here's tips then I used when I learned German (applied to learning Japanese): 1. Try to find a teacher of some kind. Even friends will do. 2. Speaking of friends, study together. 3. Watch a lot of TV in Japanese. Don't worry if you don't understand at first. I certainly didn't understand Digimon while in Germany at fist but be around the environment at least. Even try going in the Foreign section to look for movies. 4. Listen to a lot of people speak the language. Yeah, that means music too. 5. Read a lot. Literature, kids stories, sing songs, whatever. Luckily, I found tons of Dragon Ball books translated in Germany whenever I wait for my train so I kill time. 6. Go to Japan yourself. I swear thats got to be one of the best ways to start learning a language. 7. Dont abuse what you know. There's always something new to learn so don't show off or anyhting. 8. As for sites, I'm sure you can do a search engine and find something. I can highly assure you there is a free site somewhere. THe hard work is left up to you. Remember, these are only tips. Probably the most formal way would be to find a teacher. Hope this helps. |
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by yoshinasha
on 2005-07-21 22:44:45
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Old Man Kai swept the thread. I "sample" many songs at one time and stick to at least two per day. I repeat the songs over and over to memorize the lyrics, then I read the english translation. Because I'm rotating my songs everyday, I get to compare some of the lyrics with the others, and I find common words like "omae" or learn whole phrases like "furuenagara." Do not overuse, do not overuse, do not overuse. It needs to be repeated more than that, but I'll settle. It sounded really idiotic when a friend of mine started rattling off lyrics in Japanese to impress me (claiming that she knew Japanese), and I actually knew which song it was. |
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on 2005-07-22 05:17:59 |
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aaahahahaha that's cooooooooooooool! yeah i would really want to go to japan someday, but im still a 2nd year college student hehehe still have a long way to go =p ohhh that's a good tip yoshinasha i'll try doing that i'm always memorizing anime songs but i haven't tried to compare them with the english translations =p I also have a japanese book but i hate reading lolx oh well if it's for me to learn japanese i'll do anything hehehehe =p~ and next term i'm gonna enroll in a japanese class hope to learn a lot from my teacher =D is it enough if i could just watch tons of animes instead of reading comics and stuff? hehehe i really hate reading lolx I.R. lazy anyways thanks for the replies =D wish me luck nyaheahehehe arigatoh gozaimasu (that's thank you right? =p) |
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by animeallen
on 2005-07-23 08:25:08
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it really takes time, formal study is adviced but it's quite expensive... ![](\"http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/9097/riyokuosozakianimeabeforusig20.jpg\") animeallen, keywords are: Drummania | Guitar Freaks | GFX Designer | WebDev | noyPi |
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| konnichi wa, arigato, hai, sensei, is all i know of japanese. i try learning. but... failure... Ah.. what shall i do? i tried free learning sites. i really cant catch on i guess. i have inuyasha the movie 2 in japanese with english subtitles. i watch that movie a lot. so maybe i can learn from that. i want to go to Japan but first i want to learn how to speak Japanese. I'd rather have teacher than a book. But im not that rich... besides im only 11. hehe |
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on 2005-07-26 04:57:29 |
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hehe ganbatte =p just pursue your dreams and it will come true =D hmmm compared to you, when i was still at the age of 11 I memorized "ALL" of the anime songs that i have been watching, Yu Yu Hakusho, Evangelion, Detective Conan, Zenki, Jester, Flame of Recca, etc... but i don't know the meaning of even a single word from those songs. hehehe =p I think being able to talk japanese is a lot easier than knowing their meanings. he he he =p |
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hmm i've study japanese for a year now. and it's all good ^_^ i know all my kata and hira symbols. but for kanji... i know what it is but... i dunno how to sound it =P pretty lame huh??? watashi no namae wa Ryousuki desu, watashi wa jyuu-ku sai desu. i only know the simple lines... i'm not that advance yet -.-'''' 'sigh' wish i was... |
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hi im new and i really wanna learn some japanese cuz i like the anime shows cuz they r awsome!!!Love Hina Rules!!!!!!
love Chica ;)
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| well this post pretty much tells you how to ^-^ i'm still trying to learn. i've got a subscription to a magazine which has a beginners course in it and i like to download the lyrics of songs in japanese and english. i've found a site which has the japanese lyrics in kanji and ro-maji ^-^ |
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by Seal_broken
on 2005-07-29 18:10:34
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A girl at school toll me to say : I know watashi no baka and that it was like saying thats cool but I gave it a search and it means I am Stupid so thats the only sentence I know funny story |
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by
 
on 2005-07-31 07:28:04 |
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uh... i don't know, maybe get a Jap-Eng-Jap dictionary like I did... unfortunately, i have no time to study it.. ^__^ or maybe study it the formal way... as in get a unit for it in college... at least that's what i'm planning to do ^__^ LoLz   |
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| Learn the Kana symbols, then work up on your kanji. I always thought that I had to learn the Kanjis to learn japanese, so I focused on them. My friends all passed me in speaking ability, but after I had mastered Joyo kanji, I wasnt too far behind them, and then blew them away, since they knew practicly no kanji. |
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| Well i'm learning japanese too...but you can first learn the letters and the pronounciation...you can try learning the hiragana or katakana letters, characters, and pronounciation. Kanji is really quite difficult... |
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| Well it`s not so hard, even that I`m still being a beginer that is not too hard, the first I did was to watch a lot of anime because thats the way (Because watching movies was the way I learned to speak english)but that did`nt work, so I searched in the web for a lot of sites with words and expressions and taht helped me a lot, but there is smoething easier to do, you can go yo your local library and search for a beginer`s book and learn with that, i can assure you it`s gonna be easy if you really have interest in learning. |
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by sora no hoshi
on 2005-08-09 15:00:28
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Well,i´ve learned a lot of japanese with the next exercises so try them: 1.Compare the lyrics songs with the translations.You can deduce a lot of meanings this way but of course you need to compare many lyrics because some words may have three or more meanings(it´s hard at first and in my case was much harder because the translations were in english, so i learned english too(yes, i speak spanish)). 2.you can try watching anime in japanese and writting the dialogues in order to compare them with the subtitles, but you better do this when you have a wide vocabulary(i´ve already done this with 2 of my favorite episodes) 3.For the kanjis you can find good dictionaries, words and sentences in internet that are written in kanji, romaji and then translated.you can also find the hiragana and katakana dictionaries(they are very easy to learn), and the kanji version of the lyrics songs too. 4.Finally you can try taking japanese classes(it´s the most simple). Ganbatte ne!!!
Ano hi ni modoritai...
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