shinshin wrote:

Having a teacher would be nice, but cheap as they are, my school doesn't even offer a Japanese language course 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

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.

qilver wrote:

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

ralph you are the biggest player ive met in my life, and im black.

ralphm1999 wrote:

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.

Does anyone else have this book?

Let's Learn Kanji?

If so, what do you think of it?

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 ..
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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. . I learned that you don't always have to say desu after a sentence lol.
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So you study Japanese in college/university or you attend specialised classes ?

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

huuhh,..so hard..even i have a japanese book and dictionary its still hard for me to learn ..

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

Ganbatte, ne!

guys!! what is ne? hehehe!!
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jmie_akanishi wrote:

guys!! what is ne? hehehe!!

"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.

actually,its so hard to study japanese for ME...

maybe i can just study it after college.. so I can study my lessons seriously...

anyway...how do you study japanese?...

i'm just studying a dictionary but I'm having a hard time to fix it up as a sentence....

btw...what is 'Douzo yoroshiku'???

arigato guzaimasu....sayonara
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I believe the literal translation is something like "please be good to me" but is generally regarded as "Pleased to meet you"

enairra_hayami wrote:

actually,its so hard to study japanese for ME... maybe i can just study it after college.. so I can study my lessons seriously... anyway...how do you study japanese?... i'm just studying a dictionary but I'm having a hard time to fix it up as a sentence.... btw...what is 'Douzo yoroshiku'??? arigato guzaimasu....sayonara

Have you mastered the hiragana and katakana alphabet already ? If not, you should start with learning those..

yup i agree for you to learn first their two basic writings..

at this point we are same, using only dictionary.

but it's fun you know.. especially when u r determined to learn .
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�P���B�� wrote:

Have you mastered the hiragana and katakana alphabet already ? If not, you should start with learning those..

oh....! not yet..

Actually I don't know those....


but maybe i'll just study that sometime....
thanks..