Learning Japanese on our own! (self studying)

ooh ooh I want to!!!!! :D What do I have to do??

Earlier in the thread someone said (sorry i dont know how to use the quoting feature) that it's nice to have a study partner. It sure is. I am fortunate that in my college there is a minor offered for the japanese language but it only teaches you japanese language level proficiency up to a sixth grader in japan even if you finished it all... Furthurmore, the formal way of speaking is taught. That is not quite helpful in watching drama's and reading manga. Anyway, if you are in a university try to find maybe a korean/japanese exchange student who is wanting to learn/practice english. You tutor him english and he would teach you japanese. I said korean because I had a korean friend who taught me nihongo. He said that he knows japanese because it is compolsury for them to learn it in highschool. I am not sure if it applies but practicing with someone who knows the language really helps in pronounciation.

right... sooo nice japanese speaking people: which one of you would like to be my tutor? XD

just kidding, but I do like the idea, I think I'm gonna harass japanese penpal people until they agree to teach me japanese :twisted:

:mrgreen:

penpals are nice, but you only communicate via emails and not by conversing. unless, of course, you get to that level where you can call each other up. nevertheless I think its a lot better to make friends (in person) with someone who knows the language.

that would be better, making friends with japanese people in erson, but I really don't know any japanese people around here.. but that's going to change :D I'm planning to study modern japanese in düsseldorf, better known as the japanese capitol of europe XD or at least, that's what it said in the brochure XDXD

could anyone hir translate the song

sakura sake by arashi


Sakura Sake

Nigirishimeta te ga nanika iu
Kake daseba ma ni au sa to
Konbini de zasshi tachiyomi shiteta
Kinou no boku ni bye-bye

Hashiridashita machi no oto wa
Kansei no you

Sakura sake boku no mune no naka ni
Mebaeta na mo naki yumetachi
Furimukuna ushiro ni wa asu wa nai kara
Mae wo muke

Ekimae de dareka utatteru
Sore wa kimi no suki na uta
Tooku hanaretemo kesshite kienai
Dakara wakare ja nai

Itsuka futari nozomu basho de
Meguriaitai

Sakura sake kimi no mune no naka de
Yureteta chiisana tsubomi yo
Makenai you ni kujikenai you ni ima
Utau kara

Mirai nante sa sugu ni kawaru
Kaete miseru

"Migi e narae" kara fumidasu kono ippo wo
Utta ten ga wakeru kekka in to you

Dakara shittokou ikiru hinto wo
Kasumu shinkirou sura mo tsukamu ikioi

Ima makeba tane hana sakasu
Yatta ato iu nara mada wakarun da
Sou sorya jikan nante no wa kakaru
Haru ni wa ookina hana wo sakasu

Meguriaitai kanarazu

Sakura sake kimi no mune no naka de
Yureteta chiisana tsubomi yo
Makenai you ni kujikenai you ni ima
Utau kara

Sakura sake boku no mune no naka ni
Mebaeta na mo naki yumetachi
Furimukuna ushiro ni wa asu wa nai kara
Mae e mae e


pLs ....

thanks in advance

if anyone lyks to translate it for me its ok foh me

but if no one wants to

still ok

suave_yamapi would you lyk to be my partner in studyng japanese????

if you would lyk to pm me

aight....

Hi everyone

I learn japanese on my own in a different way. Instead of reading books that teaches you japanese, i watch animes and drama. I've been doing this for the last 2-3 years and already i know some japanese words and sentence. If you keep doing this you will learn a few things. Thats how i learn japanese.

I dont know about you guys but everyone learn japanese differently. Some may learn better in class, on their own or from books.

otoyamaken wrote:
No, I don't work for them, but I went through all three levels of Pimsleur and find myself learning more, faster from jpod101.

Pimsleur.... a friend of mine got me all three volumes a few months ago, but I only got through halfway of the first one :sweat: Not that it's hard, but it just takes a lot of discipline to do the lessons consecutively. I've also bought Japanese for Busy People to drill my kana knowledge, but only got through lesson 5. Summer has really taken a toll on me. The only things that have kept me going till now are watching j-dramas and reading, or at least trying to, j-magazines :nut:

shinshin wrote:

Pimsleur.... a friend of mine got me all three volumes a few months ago, but I only got through halfway of the first one :sweat: Not that it's hard, but it just takes a lot of discipline to do the lessons consecutively. I've also bought Japanese for Busy People to drill my kana knowledge, but only got through lesson 5. Summer has really taken a toll on me. The only things that have kept me going till now are watching j-dramas and reading, or at least trying to, j-magazines :nut:

chatting w/j-pen pals on Instant messaging might help too....but it's a challenge, esp if they don't speak much english. :sweat: :bonk:

qilver wrote:

chatting w/j-pen pals on Instant messaging might help too....but it's a challenge, esp if they don't speak much english. :sweat: :bonk:

Do you use romaji then? I try to avoid that as much as I could, but sometimes you can't help but fall back into them :sweat:

shinshin wrote:

Do you use romaji then? I try to avoid that as much as I could, but sometimes you can't help but fall back into them :sweat:

she understands romanji, and my very limited nihongo....
with the use of a japanese-english dictionary, and a few japanese language learning books.
i am able to have short limited conversations mostly in Japanese, but it is still a struggle for me, as some of the words in Nihongo are not in the dictionary and i cannot translate it, only guess on some of them.

can u give a site where in i can study japanese ?
i really want to learn japanese :dancing:

ketz11 wrote:can u give a site where in i can study japanese ?
i really want to learn japanese :dancing:

free ones are out there...

i am using one, where you pay a membership and it's got more....music etc...i personally like it.... :bonk:

i'm was doing pimsleur for a little while...almost done with the 90 lessons...i'm a relatively new japanese learner...just started 1-2 months ago actually...currently my only japanese learning has come from pimsleur...attempting to learn the kanji and kana but of course that might take awhile to get down but i'm trying...of course i'm planning on taking a japanese class or something because i think i'd learn alot more efficiently like that...i'd like to say that because of pimsleur i at least know a little bit but of course i know i'm far from fluency...of course i shall try my hardest as will everyone else here i assume ^____^

aznanimedude wrote:i'm was doing pimsleur for a little while...almost done with the 90 lessons...i'm a relatively new japanese learner...just started 1-2 months ago actually...currently my only japanese learning has come from pimsleur...attempting to learn the kanji and kana but of course that might take awhile to get down but i'm trying...of course i'm planning on taking a japanese class or something because i think i'd learn alot more efficiently like that...i'd like to say that because of pimsleur i at least know a little bit but of course i know i'm far from fluency...of course i shall try my hardest as will everyone else here i assume ^____^

learning on your own is tough, and it takes commitment, off and on i have been learning Hiragana, and from various books for about 1 year now...but i just restarted and it is tough to learn, when you have limited time, due to the work schedule. But i hope to get at a level where i can read/write/ and speak on a basic level, but that is going to be awhile and lots of learning.

qilver wrote:

learning on your own is tough, and it takes commitment, off and on i have been learning Hiragana, and from various books for about 1 year now....

I have a Taiwanese friend who just breezes through kanji (of course since kanji is related to Chinese characters), but is having a hard time on learning hiragana and maybe katakana as well. I'm having problems on kanji myself, and in my perspective I just wonder how he is able to tackle kanji but unable to handle a measly thing such as kana. But in the end it all goes down to pure jealousy of him :grumble:

shinshin wrote:

I have a Taiwanese friend who just breezes through kanji (of course since kanji is related to Chinese characters), but is having a hard time on learning hiragana and maybe katakana as well. I'm having problems on kanji myself, and in my perspective I just wonder how he is able to tackle kanji but unable to handle a measly thing such as kana. But in the end it all goes down to pure jealousy of him :grumble:

your friend does have an advantage in knowing the basics in Kanji, since the Japanese use it too...
i'd say the Kanji is the most difficult, and i will probably learn it last, in character writing....i am starting with Hiragana then Katakana.

The books that I used which were very effective were Let's Learn Hiragana and Let's Learn Katakana by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura. Maybe it'll be helpful to you as well. Afterwards you can move on to Japanese for Busy People to reinforce your kana skills. But seriously, I should be telling myself this... I've slacked off way too much already.