Anyone here take a Japanese language course?

[griann 59]

I have been studying Japanese since I was Ten. Japanese has always made sense to me.

 

Japanese is not my only language. I study Korean, Latin, French, Russian, and Greek all mostly to help myself in school.

 

The earlier you start, the better.

O.O *goes into a corner and cries*

I want to be able to learn and eventually speak so many languages, too! But Ii I learn too many languages I'd mix them up...

You are really awesome. I give you my respect for that!

[Ptolema 404]

Japanese is supposed to be one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn. Having taken two during community college, I agree. There's approximately zero similarities so you're starting from scratch, and kanji's a nightmare. You're gonna be in for a lot of studying and flexibility if you're gonna take Japanese.

Nightmare indeed. Some words seem vaguely similar to Latin-derived languages, but... Those letters... I can't take classes and I tried to use a computer program... I suppose actually learning more than ten Japanese words would take lots of studying, specially in those letters (kanji, is it?).

[I♥KH 1,280]

my school have japanishe club, but we dont learn kanji, just katakana, and hiragana.

[moogleman 66]

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[Lady Aleister 1,677]

Pimsleur Approach can teach you a language in 10 days.

[moogleman 66]

I have been studying Japanese since I was Ten. Japanese has always made sense to me.

 

For an English person, it is hard if you are trying to compare it to English. Japanese has taught me that English is very redundant. Why do I have to say I over and over in a conversation? Obviously, I am talking about myself. I have always had trouble with pronounciation in English: too many rules and stuff. You know long vowels, short vowels, ck, ch, tion, ion just a mess. Japanese is pretty strait forward to me.

 

Kanji is a breeze for me. I think of them as pictures, and when you really understand what is the basis for Kanji it makes perfect sense. Maybe it is easy to me because I pay attention to detail a lot. Particles make life easier in translating, in my opinion

 

Advice to people:

Don't use Rosetta Stone.

Expose yourself to Japanese everyday: music, anime, reading, writing, etc...

 

Japanese is not my only language. I study Korean, Latin, French, Russian, and Greek all mostly to help myself in school.

 

i actually just saw an episode of Dragnet, where the case involved a murdered Japanese woman and after they caught the  bad guy her mother and the woman`s daughter asked to visit them and have tea i was able to pick-out some words that i knew and was able to basically transnlate it before the TV did.