I’ve started on the long journey towards learning Japanese. Anybody else already on this road? Or want to get on? Or whatever?
I’ve always wanted to learn Japanese. I may join you. Have you found any good resources for learning?
Yes I have found an excellent resource. A book called “Remembering Kanji” is what I’ve just started using. This is a really good book for learning the picture word alphabet (kanji). And if you have Ubuntu there is a good app called “Kana Test” that helps in memorizing the phonetic alphabets. I’m about half done with the Kana (Phonetic alphabets) and I’m at about 20 on the Kanji.
I believe the first chapter of that book I mentioned is online for free download, and you can buy the full thing on Amazon.
If you or anybody else does want to work together add me on Skype my ID is: coryalantaylor
Yes I have found an excellent resource. A book called “Remembering Kanji” is what I’ve just started using. This is a really good book for learning the picture word alphabet (kanji). And if you have Ubuntu there is a good app called “Kana Test” that helps in memorizing the phonetic alphabets. I’m about half done with the Kana (Phonetic alphabets) and I’m at about 20 on the Kanji.
I believe the first chapter of that book I mentioned is online for free download, and you can buy the full thing on Amazon.
If you or anybody else does want to work together add me on Skype my ID is: coryalantaylor
or you could use Livemocha.com. Same concept as Rosetta stone, but free. I’ve been learning Italian there for the past two months.
peace,
-nick
I’ve been studying for around 10 years now, I can tell you this: it’s a never-ending path, specially long if you do it part-time with university studies and elses.
In first instace there you have the first 2000 kanjis that are the minimum to read the newspaper (thus being able to be alled non illiterate, but besides them there are other 48.000. I’m struggling to be able to remember only 500 of them.
My advice: don’t think that you can get this over anytime soon, and consider it a hobby, it will be more enjoyable that way. It will also give you a chance to introduce yourselves on their culture. And if you want to learn a language where you can say “I learnt it”, try any occidental language, all of them are a lot easier/factible to “finish”, in the sense of reading and speaking it in a professional way (not like a native).
hi guys,
I study Japanese before like an hobby, and now I’m in japan since 2 month and I’ll stay 2 more weeks so I do it a little bit more intensively,
I use some DS games, and a book call “Japanese for bus people” recommended by some guys learning Japanese as well, There is actually Two volumes that I bought in japan
I watch a lot of japanese anime and movies a lot, a lot.
And I strongly recommend you to get a Japanese corespondent;) to practice what you’ve learn.
there is some website for language exchange, so both can practice^^
がんばって！
Thank you for the link. I didn’t know about that website, I’m joining.
Actually improving : french english spanish japanese
Next (hope I live long enough) : greek chinese
Cloud_GL > I didn’t know you were that good in japanese. That’s great.
BOKUMO!
Why not copy me and actually have skype conversations -e.g typing katakana, typing hiragana which is basic and then adding kanji when you are confident im sure there’s a lot of willing Japanese men and woman out there to help you on face book, bebo, tagged, msn …youll pick it up if you listen to music also, I have studied pronouncation with songs wich perfects diction and tention on words…Also a city’s diction like Osaka ben is popular or the acedemic bussiness talk no one really uses is Tokyo the Defualt of japanese langauge you will all learn …!he he
If you are looking for a place to practice your Japanese language skills without actually traveling to Japan, try Second Life. A considerable part of its user base is Japanese. The client software has both text and voice chat features. All you need is a free basic account.
Learning Japanese is the reason why I did almost no 3D in 2009… Be certain that it’s what you want, as it’s a serious timesink and it takes some time until you can reap the rewards.
It’s great that you already started with Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji, that’s what I recommend for motivated people, just get rid of the kanji wall right away and then you can start learning some real Japanese without being afraid of them. The website http://kanji.koohii.com/ is designed as a companion to that book and has a great community.
I’m learning Swedish on livemocha. Once I get through quite a bit, I’m starting on Greek.
@yournamehere What’s your username there? I tried finding you…
So how difficult do you think it is to learn to read,write,speak greek /ancient greek ? 
Very easy to speak/write I don’t know so much about reading. Most of my Greek experience comes from Biblical scholarly interests (lets not discuss it though).
So anybody want to start a group Skype chat for Japanese literate wannabees?