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Post by OldSchool on Aug 25, 2009 19:38:00 GMT -5
Has anyone else tried tackling this? A friend of mine has been teaching me for about 3 weeks now and so far so good. So far I can read/write most of the Hiragana, no Katakana or Kanji yet. Learned basic sentence structure, particle markers, numbers/age/time, places and a bunch of objects.
We've been using the Genki I Integrated Elementary Japanese Course book and it seems to be working good for me.
Personally when it comes to memorization, mnemonics works the bestt for me, like:
あ - A (looks like a snake by your feet so you go AHHHHH!) い - I (Looks like a pair of ears) う - U (Guy getting hit in the stomach and falling saying OOOOH!) え - E (Looks like a guy running, Exercising) お - O (Looks like a Golf Green with a Flag on it, the ball goes Over the green)
I got one for every Hiragana symbol so far, to me it helps.
Anyone else out there learning/already learned Japanese and have any helpful tips for someone new trying to learn?
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Post by Sektor on Sept 3, 2009 17:57:23 GMT -5
Haha what timing. I'm actually taking an introductory japanese class in college this fall. I'll throw anything useful I learn your way
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Post by OldSchool on Sept 8, 2009 8:52:48 GMT -5
Thanks I appreciate it.
I'm a little over a month into is so far and I have the entire Hiragana down by memory now. Katakana is next. >_> Lots of vocab and sentence structure. About to start doing verbs next and I hear they aren't easy. >_<
Good luck on your class!
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Post by Tsukasa on Sept 14, 2009 18:51:15 GMT -5
I wanted to take Japanese but my advisor wouldn't allow it! D:{@but noice, oldschool, good luck!
Bugger those bastards. I also want to do, uh.... what do they call it,... the thing where you go overseas for a semester, but it looks like they won't want that either. >_> Oh well, maybe I can fit it in if I 23-credit 3 semesters...
Oh. Btw.@"‚ ‚©‚³‚½‚ÈA‚Í‚Ü‚â‚ç‚í". It's the order for the 5-unit alphabet thing; I use it once in a while, but then again, I still have to think about the order of the letters in the English alphabet.... if you want to remember instantly it might be a pain, but it'll be pretty easy over a few months of usage, I think. Like how you begin to remember ions off the top of your head after a year of chemistry...
‚ª‚ñ‚΂êAƒIƒ‹ƒhƒXƒN[ƒ‹I
Edit: Screw this public university computer, can't do Japanese right.
Hrm. Also, once you get to a certain level, reading shounen manga definitely helps reading the basic kanji and stuff. The mass-produced stuff, mainly. Once you get into titles like Shion no Ou or Akumetsu, (even?) I get lost - although I definitely bet that if I were to actually look up the stuff I don't get, I'd learn a helluva lot more.
But yeah, a lot of the kanji I still remember - and some of the ones that I never learned in Japanese school - are from manga, and Japanese songs.
Even now I'm learning maybe one japanese kanji/phrase a month just from songs. Slow rate to be sure, but considering that I'm not even trying to learn,... yeah.
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Post by Gustave on Sept 24, 2009 11:09:53 GMT -5
Learning japanese i think i'm learning japanese I really think so.
Oh come on, you know you all thought it.
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