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Learning Japanese (for obvious reasons)

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animagic4u:

--- Quote from: Cael K. on November 26, 2010, 10:38:06 am ---One point advice...
This is not a short road, and it's not an easy one. How long was it before you stopped asking your mom what something meant in English? Yeah, repeat that process. ^^;

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So true. But I think the best part of learning a language is when you've come a long way and not noticed how far you've come until you suddenly realize you can understand all these things you couldn't understand before.

Good luck!

Raestloz:

--- Quote from: animagic4u on November 26, 2010, 06:11:46 pm ---So true. But I think the best part of learning a language is when you've come a long way and not noticed how far you've come until you suddenly realize you can understand all these things you couldn't understand before.

Good luck!

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Exactly my case with English.

When it comes to Japanese, though, I'm stuck at Hiragana and Katakana. No, I can read them and write them alright, it's just that I can't advance from the next lesson: verbs and adjectives

I swear, vocabulary is a b*tch. Now I'm left with the remaining bits of hiragana and katakana I learnt, not even the grammar I remember

TweenDoriru:
Immersion is a good way, though not everyone can do spontaneous trips to Japan XD I know I can't.

I've never taken a class or anything, so I'm entirely in the dark with grammar and sentence structure. However, I can read all hiragana and katakana (this is, honestly, thanks to iM@S. I couldn't remember how they looked when I studied them from a book) and some of the more common kanji (i.e. 亜美と真美 XDD).

I can't do a thorough understanding of iM@S like a native-speaker (or someone who's actually taken classes and learned the language would), but I can usually get the gist of what's going on in commus (though I use ICOMU-M@STER for the answers).

It's nice being able to read the morning greetings (all but one in particular...) and the menus. Though I do wish I could understand more of what they're saying. XD

azuyuki:
I'm still trying to get into my Japanese class at UCF, and I'm close to graduation too...

Picup:
Everyone has shared a lot of what I would say, so there's not much left.  But my friend and I had a chat about learning languages, and the easiest way to probably learn is to actually live in the country (Japan in our case); but that's a bit hard.

I saved a bunch of sites and stuff from what other people use, but really, learn hiragana and katakana first, and then just slowly take in kanji.  First year Japanese will go over hiragana and katakana, and then slowly into Kanji -- while learning about a lot of grammatical things along the way, at least that's what I'm doing at this moment...

If worst comes to worst, you can always play this game!

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