My dream is to learn Japanese. Any tips?
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So i've been looking for a place to learn Japanese around here and I can't seem to find a damn thing. There are tutors for learning Japanese but its 50.00+ dollars an hour a little too pricey for me but I have it under consideration and am using it as a last resort. So I was wondering if i'd ask the wonderful people of fakku to give me any tips to learning Japanese and so I won't have money flying out of my wallet.
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Defintely check out this thread first:
https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=91194
It has many valuable tools for learning Japanese.
I personally only use Human Japanese on my Android phone. It is EXTREMELY good.
I also use a flash card program on my phone called StudyDroid. I would let you know my username so you could download my flashcards, but my phone is off, I do not remember the name, and the search function is just deplorable. The Human Japanese app is $10.
There is also this website:
http://www.japaneselearning.com/
Now, what you want to do is start off with Hiragana and Katakana. Those two are a must. Honestly, I just follow along with the Human Japanese. One thing that you should note (I haven't reached it yet) is that for Kanji, it would benefit you greatly to learn the radicals. By learning the radicals, you can make a rough guess on what a Kanji may mean.
Of course you should also immerse yourself within the language as well. This is no problem for me because almost all of my music is in Japanese and I read along with both the romanized and English translated lyrics and I watch a lot of anime, Eventually, you'll recognize words like raishuu, tadaima, heya, yuka, and so on (next week, I'm back, room, hardwood floor). Why do people name their daughter hardwood floor, seriously?
Overall, Japanese is a very easy language to learn if you are looking at its syntax. The real challenge is Kanji. After comparing it to English and German, I just said "fuck it," Japanese have it better in their own way. Their language is very context based. Only a few words have plurals; so kusa (tree) can mean tree or trees, same thing with hana (flower), michi (road) and so on. Words like musume (daughter) combined with the suffix tachi (pluralizer) make musume-tachi (daughters)..
I'll post back later with the flashcards linked. My phone is off and it takes a good minute or so to boot up. If you want, I could also post a few pictures of my Japanese binder, which is my practice. I usually write the words about five times or so and I never try to learn too many at the same time. Some are easy like michi, mizuumi, hana, kumo, and eki (road, lake, flower, train station) but words like raishuu, konshuu, senshuu, and ototoi are a little more confusing (next week, this week, last week, and the day before yesterday (yes, they speak like that)). I also right down the hiragana and katakanna set by set usually for about a whole page.
https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=91194
It has many valuable tools for learning Japanese.
I personally only use Human Japanese on my Android phone. It is EXTREMELY good.
I also use a flash card program on my phone called StudyDroid. I would let you know my username so you could download my flashcards, but my phone is off, I do not remember the name, and the search function is just deplorable. The Human Japanese app is $10.
There is also this website:
http://www.japaneselearning.com/
Now, what you want to do is start off with Hiragana and Katakana. Those two are a must. Honestly, I just follow along with the Human Japanese. One thing that you should note (I haven't reached it yet) is that for Kanji, it would benefit you greatly to learn the radicals. By learning the radicals, you can make a rough guess on what a Kanji may mean.
Of course you should also immerse yourself within the language as well. This is no problem for me because almost all of my music is in Japanese and I read along with both the romanized and English translated lyrics and I watch a lot of anime, Eventually, you'll recognize words like raishuu, tadaima, heya, yuka, and so on (next week, I'm back, room, hardwood floor). Why do people name their daughter hardwood floor, seriously?
Overall, Japanese is a very easy language to learn if you are looking at its syntax. The real challenge is Kanji. After comparing it to English and German, I just said "fuck it," Japanese have it better in their own way. Their language is very context based. Only a few words have plurals; so kusa (tree) can mean tree or trees, same thing with hana (flower), michi (road) and so on. Words like musume (daughter) combined with the suffix tachi (pluralizer) make musume-tachi (daughters)..
I'll post back later with the flashcards linked. My phone is off and it takes a good minute or so to boot up. If you want, I could also post a few pictures of my Japanese binder, which is my practice. I usually write the words about five times or so and I never try to learn too many at the same time. Some are easy like michi, mizuumi, hana, kumo, and eki (road, lake, flower, train station) but words like raishuu, konshuu, senshuu, and ototoi are a little more confusing (next week, this week, last week, and the day before yesterday (yes, they speak like that)). I also right down the hiragana and katakanna set by set usually for about a whole page.
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Thank you for taking the time out of your day to send me so much useful information I deeply appreciate it! I will be making great use of this which you have provided me. Unfortunately I don't have smartphone so I can't make use of your flashcards that you were willing to give me :( but, Would you be willing to exchange emails? I feel like I could learn a lot from you as well!
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Sorry for the late reply. I do not wish to leave my email openly on a forum, so if you want we can continue this via private message.
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From my experience...
Learn Katakana & Hiragana via flashcards or a flashcard app. Really no excuse not to master this, it's just rote memorization. Next is Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.
This site is a popular choice for drilling vocab. If you complete Heisig's Remembering the Kanji, you'll pickup vocabulary faster because you'll already recognize many of the written words, you'll just be learning how to read them out loud.
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese covers EVERYTHING grammar-related. It's super easy to follow and 100% free. I would however still recommend you pick up a standard textbook, like GENKI, as it contains quizzes and whatnot.
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Learn Katakana & Hiragana via flashcards or a flashcard app. Really no excuse not to master this, it's just rote memorization. Next is Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.
This site is a popular choice for drilling vocab. If you complete Heisig's Remembering the Kanji, you'll pickup vocabulary faster because you'll already recognize many of the written words, you'll just be learning how to read them out loud.
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese covers EVERYTHING grammar-related. It's super easy to follow and 100% free. I would however still recommend you pick up a standard textbook, like GENKI, as it contains quizzes and whatnot.
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You can always get Rosetta Stone. The help that I've gotten through this program really boost my confidence in being able to actually someday fluently speak Japanese.
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Sorry for the late reply!Thanks for all the information! Once again I appreciate it!
@Foreground Eclispe I understand i'll be messaging you on here soon then!
@Tommy_TSW Thanks Tom i'll look into those
@Jeff I have considered it but i'm not sure yet a lot of people have recommended it to me so it must be good.
@Yurixhentai What other materials would you suggest besides Rosetta Stone?
@Foreground Eclispe I understand i'll be messaging you on here soon then!
@Tommy_TSW Thanks Tom i'll look into those
@Jeff I have considered it but i'm not sure yet a lot of people have recommended it to me so it must be good.
@Yurixhentai What other materials would you suggest besides Rosetta Stone?
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For kanji practice and learning Ive found using kanjidamage (website, just search google) with the pc anki cuecard program to work quite nicely. It has the best memnyomics ever. But you dont have to learn all that much kanji just to speak the language and watch anime since it only relates to reading. If you wanna learn japanese so you can read it as a native speaker would tis a much longer process but totally worth it. At least in my opinion since I started learning japanese in order to read light novels and eroge :D
Everything else people have said I pretty much agree with. Taekims guide is a really nice resource.
Also when learning hirigana make sure you get all the pronounciation right. If you are attempting to learn the language without any outside tutoridge its important to get a hang of the pronounciation of each since there is no one to correct you. Maybe try to read aloud when you do excersizes as well since you lack a classroom setting for speech practice. Eventually I would recomend finding someone you can practice talking to once you get the basic grammer and such down. (Something I still should do myself)
The quickest way to learn the language is, of course, to go live in Japan but that is easier said than done.
Also if you have firefox rikaichan is quite a handy tool when navigating japanese sites. http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
Learning a language, especially something like Japanese, takes a lot of time but just keep at it and your dream is sure to see its fulfillment eventually.
Everything else people have said I pretty much agree with. Taekims guide is a really nice resource.
Also when learning hirigana make sure you get all the pronounciation right. If you are attempting to learn the language without any outside tutoridge its important to get a hang of the pronounciation of each since there is no one to correct you. Maybe try to read aloud when you do excersizes as well since you lack a classroom setting for speech practice. Eventually I would recomend finding someone you can practice talking to once you get the basic grammer and such down. (Something I still should do myself)
The quickest way to learn the language is, of course, to go live in Japan but that is easier said than done.
Also if you have firefox rikaichan is quite a handy tool when navigating japanese sites. http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
Learning a language, especially something like Japanese, takes a lot of time but just keep at it and your dream is sure to see its fulfillment eventually.
