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Post by unknownv2 on Jun 27, 2007 2:06:49 GMT -5
Does anybody know any online classes or lessons that are good? Because my high school only has French and other languages but I want to learn Japanese for the purpose of anime and I may go to Japan later on in life.
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Kazuha Toyama
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Post by Kazuha Toyama on Jul 4, 2007 8:06:38 GMT -5
I would recommend getting the book Japanese Phrases by Lonely Planet! It only costs 5 dollars and you can get it at your local bookstore....
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Post by sakky on Mar 21, 2008 15:50:22 GMT -5
I want to get one!
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Gentakun
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Post by Gentakun on May 26, 2008 6:21:53 GMT -5
Well, I live in India, and am in the same situation that unknown is in(maybe). Over here theres no book like that unless one uses amazon or something, and then theres the question of paying for shipping. Kazuha, where do you live? In the US? Thats maybe why hes asking for something 'online' (At least thats why I want something online too). But thanks for the suggestion domo arigato, ill still look around for it.
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Post by *~NiCkY~* on Jun 5, 2008 0:14:11 GMT -5
my suggestion might not be that great but... there are a lot of websites that teach you about the japanese language and you can learn that language and learn about the japanese culture simultaneously. those are usually by foreign ppl who've been living in japan for a long time and got many useful info about different things. i think you can learn a lot from different websites. i mean, some may be better than others, but not a single website is completely comprehensive. some may teach you vocabularies, and some may teach you the grammars, etc, etc. search for specific things like "japanese level 4 wordlist," "japanese grammar for beginners," "kanji lists," for example.
also, listen to jpop music and study the lyrics. watching anime, dramas, movies in japanese with english subtitles is a good way to learn japanese too. actually i learn most of the stuff i know from watching dramas and movies. that's a good way to learn about the grammar, too. as you may or may not know, japanese grammar seems a bit confusing to beginners. but once you get to know a little bit of this and that, you'll start picking up a lot of things. first you should learn different words and phrases, and then you'll start noticing the patterns or things about the grammars (e.g. the order of the words in a sentence, tenses, etc.)
AND, it takes some time to learn a language. Allow yourself MONTHS before you actually understand or are able to speak at a certain level =)
i have some websites in my bookmarks in another computer. I'll put the links here when I get to go on that computer later
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Post by sherry on Jun 5, 2008 9:35:34 GMT -5
i agree with Nicky ^___^
you can listen to jpnese music and watch some jpnese films with subtitles... it really helps!!
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Post by Aikachi on Jun 7, 2008 0:33:49 GMT -5
I would recommend that you purchase some books. It's not the cheapest way to learn, but it's a lot easier to focus I think, rather than having a website (that does not offer quite so much in the way of comprehensive learning by the way) up in your browser and possibly being distracted by messengers and other sources of internet-ADD >.>
I would enthusiastically recommend the book 'Japanese for busy people' the kana edition. It helps you to learn kana more quickly and reinforces this by making you actually read the kana. Romaji can stunt your growth so to speak. Also I'd recommend picking up a kana workbook.
The most important advice I can give you is to stick to it. If you want to learn Japanese, it is a LOT of work, it will not learn itself. Even if you bought every book in the world, and an expensive electronic dictionary device, you still wouldn't learn if you didn't put your all into it. Make time for studying, and during that time, only study, don't distract yourself with something else. If you REALLY are serious about visiting Japan someday, and making the language a part of your life, work hard on it. It's no mean feat.
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Post by rajhaziel on Jun 7, 2008 1:43:55 GMT -5
One of the places I started out with is yesjapan.com/It's just one of the places on the internet and I liked it a lot. After that I just used the book "Genki I" and "Genki II" Hope that helps. Enjoy.
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Shu
New Detective
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Post by Shu on Jun 8, 2008 20:59:58 GMT -5
there is a program I use called Rosetta Stone, I'm sure it can teach Japanese
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Alinne
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Post by Alinne on Jul 26, 2008 1:44:47 GMT -5
There are lots of programs. Detective Conan is good for basics, too.
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hoang
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Post by hoang on Mar 14, 2009 4:07:36 GMT -5
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icker
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Post by icker on Jul 25, 2009 3:00:19 GMT -5
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Post by shinichi234 on Nov 21, 2009 11:56:44 GMT -5
My own suggestion is you should bought Japanese book and a dictionary in Japanese then read that book if there are words that you don't know check it in the dictionary(wow that seems like hard work). Or u just need to watch lots of movie that are in Japanese with subtitle(this is an easy on)
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