Having a teacher would be nice, but cheap as they are, my school doesn't even offer a Japanese language course :grumble: Self-studying requires a great deal of discipline and will, both of which I don't really have right now. The only thing I've done recently is watch dramas after another :sweat:
i haven't looked into taking a course yet, but i suppose i should do that.
they have courses at the local JC-Junior college.
I bought a book yesterday, on "Adventures in Japanese" volume #1.
The studying begins, trying to keep myself accountable is going to be tough.
I am trying to build up my Hiragana skills, and vocabulary, so that the next time i use it during my next visit to Japan, i will have the knowledge to do so.
i haven't looked into taking a course yet, but i suppose i should do that.
they have courses at the local JC-Junior college.
I bought a book yesterday, on "Adventures in Japanese" volume #1.
The studying begins, trying to keep myself accountable is going to be tough.
I am trying to build up my Hiragana skills, and vocabulary, so that the next time i use it during my next visit to Japan, i will have the knowledge to do so.
Pierce college is now offering Japanese. I'm trying to get in the elementary class right now. There are already 19 standbys and I can't register until the 18th.
Here's a listing Japanese courses offered at all the colleges in the LA Community College District.
http://www.laccd.edu/LAColleges/class_offerings/classSearch.asp?class=540&name=Japanese&sYear=107AA
Pierce college is now offering Japanese. I'm trying to get in the elementary class right now. There are already 19 standbys and I can't register until the 18th.
Here's a listing Japanese courses offered at all the colleges in the LA Community College District.
http://www.laccd.edu/LAColleges/class_offerings/classSearch.asp?class=540&name=Japanese&sYear=107AA
i never got around to taking a class at the local college, but i am going to continue to study Japanese on my own from various books and cd's. It is a challenge to motivate myself on a regular basis, and that lack of accountability, but one motvation is my upcoming trip to Japan.
did you ever get into that japanese class? how's your japanese skills? i am trying to build up my conversation skills, vocab., and the hiragana character strokes.
yeah playa, i got it. its been collecting dust for about 2 years now. great book. i got the 2nd one only though just cause when i browsed through the first one, it seemed too easy. But lets learn kanji is good if you already good at making medium-long sentences. you found it huh? good job
it was really hard for me to learn japanese without a teacher .. hmm ... i can't understand on how to construct japanese sentences because there are some other terms that was really confusing .. :shamefulcry:
I am currently also studying on my own. In fact I wouldnt call it really studying (I would call it more, achieving Japanese knowledge in a fun way, without any stress). I have learned all hiragana and katakana for quite some time now, and some basic grammar stuff. Now I read trough some vocabulary lists (this having my preference, cause I would need to have a bigger amount of vocabulary knowledge to survive in Japan this summer), and many times there are words in doramas I recognize and sometimes they stick in my mind in that way..
I an slightly considering whether I should do Japanologie starting from next year (I will graduate from high school in a few months). Shure it will be very fun for me to study it, and my Japanese would improve a lot. But I feel its also a waste of time. Maybe it would be bether to study something else which is more interesting for jobhunters, and as I have planned now already, go study Japanese in Japan for maybe 1 or 2 years (maybe this may even have a bigger effect than studying Japanologie - not only language but also culture and all - in my own country).
Intresting. I have a Japanese Teacher but as i found out too quick the class speed was much too slow for me. I just started self teaching myself with the textbook. I use Adventures in Japanese 1 text book. I recommend if your gonna self teach yourself maybe find a Japanese friend who knows English somewhere. They can probably teach you slangs that the books don't. :P. I learned that you don't always have to say desu after a sentence lol.
Hmoobphajej wrote:... I learned that you don't always have to say desu after a sentence lol.
I think adding the desu part at the end makes the sentence somewhat polite. You don't have to have it, but it depends on who you're talking to I guess :)
If you don't find learning Japanese is fun, it'll be even harder for you. :/ Of course there are hard parts in any language, but if you like the language, and want to really learn Japanese, you'll manage ;)
"ne" at the end of sentence is kinda ",do you agree?"
Usually the end of japanese sentece, there are a lot of particle.
They express confidense, need of agreement.... etc.