Learning Japanese on our own! (self studying)

suugakusha07 wrote:

thank you so much for the translation :woot:

nippon addict
it (ŒŽ) can be read in different ways.

ah... ok,, thanks

Indeed ŒŽ can be read differently, for examples you should visit this link:


http://www.j-talk.com/nihongo/search/kanjisearch.php?pick=376E

Anime Dad wrote:

One of the joys of kanji :)

Yeah, but sumoetimes it's a little annoying :headscratch:

well, me i also have been studying how to speak in japanese for almost a year, but i can't still put the words in my head.. maybe i will just take up a class...

well,, i found a site that teaches japanese easily but i forgot the URL... :bonk:

i'll try to look for it again

currently, i already memorize almost all katakanas, a few hiraganas, and some kanjis... about the speech, i know some basics but still, it really is complicated...

studying japanese on my own is hard

so much to do

can anyone give me website where i could learn easily

Aoi~Uruha~luv wrote:studying japanese on my own is hard

so much to do

can anyone give me website where i could learn easily

I really liked this site way back when I first started learning Japanese a couple of years ago:

http://www.geocities.com/takasugishinji/japanese/index.html

Also, like anything that requires a decent amount of study, there's no easy way to learn Japanese. Just thought I'd point that out.

I took Japanese for about 3 years, but I think I'm going to start teaching myself..maybe >_< But I'd like some help from others if possible!

Wow! it is great to see so many people in this thread...I decided to learn Japanese about a week ago and it will be a great challenge since it has no Latin roots.

Is learning the Kana symbols first a good idea? So far I love to recognize them even though I don't know what they mean. :hehe:

Yeah its a good idea to learn all kana if you are planning to study reading and writing eventually. After that you can start learning some vocabulary, expressions, grammar and in the end the kanji.

ƒPƒ”ƒBƒ“ wrote:Yeah its a good idea to learn all kana if you are planning to study reading and writing eventually. After that you can start learning some vocabulary, expressions, grammar and in the end the kanji.

Thanxs, for the advice.

how would you know when to use katakana, hiragana, or kanji? it's confusing when i see them together in one paragraph...

hirangana and katakana both have individual characters to represent each sound in japanese so you can think of them as "spelling" out the words. the difference is hiragana is used for native words while katakana is for imported words kinda generalized=hiragana for japanese words, katakana for non-japanese words. you can get away with using just hiragana and katakana but correct writing implements kanji which are basically more complex "words" i guess you could say

aznanimedude wrote:hirangana and katakana both have individual characters to represent each sound in japanese so you can think of them as "spelling" out the words. the difference is hiragana is used for native words while katakana is for imported words kinda generalized=hiragana for japanese words, katakana for non-japanese words. you can get away with using just hiragana and katakana but correct writing implements kanji which are basically more complex "words" i guess you could say

i get your point but what i'm saying is i notice some japanese words are written in katakana... :sweat:

Do you have an example of that?

Anime Dad wrote:Do you have an example of that?

uhm... i saw "taiyou" written as ƒ^ƒCƒˆƒE...

i forgot the rest... sumimasen... :sweat:

I forgot were I read it, but a study said an average person needs about 3,000 hours of studying a language to understand a language. I know it varies and you can't say that surpassing the 3,000 mark you will understand it, but to put the challenge in perspective.

If you study:

One hour a day - will take 3,000 days.
Two hours a day - will take 1,500 days.
Three hour a day- will take 1,000 days.

"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.h --Jacob Riis.

well i am learning japanese through wathing anime but yeah i is hard but yeah i wanna know how to learn it a differnent way you know where it is easier but yeah...... :bonk: well.....i guess i'll see.... :banghead:

any one got any good japanese talking dictionary to recommend?

i know almost all katakanas exept this ƒ” and a few others... so pls tell me what ƒ” is???? :bow: :bow: :bow: