Learning Japanese?

Check out http://japanese.about.com they seem to have a pretty decent selection of links to help you. Including an audio phrasebook: http://japanese.about.com/library/blphrase.htm Japanese Lessons Main Page: http://japanese.about.com/od/japaneselessons/Japanese_Lessons.htm Hope this helps~Tink

Try to look for Rosetta Stone, they say it is the best wa and easiest way to learn any languages you want. :) goodluck with it.

Documents and websites can help you out. For a couple of read throughs, try these. I've included a generic website with history and basics, along with a PDF highlighting some things for novices. http://www.jsnet.org/japanese-language.html http://web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/JAPLANGU.pdf This next link is a website with grammar, study sheets, lessons, quizzes and tests http://www.jgram.org/ One way of doing it besides the bookwork and websites, is to emerse in the culture. Listen to the vocal music, watch the dramas and programming(with subtitling) if possible, but do it casually. It'll certainly take a while to pick up in the remote sense, but this can also help. There is a widget/addon for Opera called Kanji of the Day. You can use that to study up a bit. Flash cards should also be available online. You can also use this dictionary to find the words you want to learn. They have the definitions, the kanji and the appropriate uses, along with verb "tense"/clusters http://www.docoja.com/dico/sitemap.html Know that sentence structure typically goes Subject-Object-Verb, and the verb serves as the head of a sentence. There are also links/roots/flags for each object and verb to note importance and place. "Boku wa kompuyta o tsukau" (I'm using the computer) as an example. You can also put in indirect(objects/verbs) in the sentence structure. Games can help too and they can be found either in purchased learning programs or from online sources http://www.digitaldialects.com/Japanese.htm Here is a site with multiple website links, resources and learning choices http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html

the best easiest way to study Nihongo is to find someone who speaks the language. its hard if you study it in books or online because the pronunciation in nihongo varies in meaning. for example hashi (low-high) means bridge and hashi (high-low) means chopsticks and you pronunce it as hashi(hash). lol. another one, if your translation is based on English, then its a hard deal.because English's construction is S-verb-C. but in Nihongo its S-wa-C-desu. and its get harder and harder because in long sentences it will scrambled. next, if your learning Nihongo because of tv shows and you want to read without subs, then its so different learning it on the net because tv shows or younger generation of nihonjin speaks nihongo in slang and style. hehe! but its still the basic so it helps. for example: the basic and polite way is "hai, soo desu" (yes, it is) or you can say it "hai, so deshoo" if you want it more casual. but another is "Da wa" is an abbreviation of 'desu wa' and its used only by women. or "Da wa yo" commonly used by women but men can also used it but they find it too girly. lol. here i'll list some slang interjectional words" ano ne = why, well (but lets see is more close, according to me. hehe) ara = oh dear, oh my (if your shock or stunned by something) fun = hum, pshaw (invented by me, hehe) ha = ha! aha! mah(MA!!!!) = i suppose, my, i see oya = my! hoi! ya = well, so long yo = hi, hello, well done well, i hope this helps. but i rather suggest you find a native speaker and par with him. because speaking it and means it is way, way, better than memorizing it. hehe. i could teach you too but im not really a good teacher. hahahaha

Hi, The best way to learn Japanese would be to live in Japan. Immersion works really well. There are other great ways though. YouTube http://www.youtube.com has plenty of Japanese learning videos. You could also try playing Japanese games http://www.japanesegames.net There are also a number of Japanese learning programs and iphone apps.

Hi, The best way to learn Japanese is to go to Japan. That is not a possible for most people though. There are other great ways. YouTube http://www.youtube.com has a number of great Japanese learning videos that were made by NHK (the major broadcaster here). You could also try online Japanese games to learn by immersion: http://www.japanesegames.net

the above link (the japanese.about) is very good, lots of useful articles.. watch lots of jdoramas and listen to japanese songs.. they'll help you remember words and phrases.. it'll help you with the pronunciation too.. hmm.. practice with someone often so you'll be comfortable with the language

Watch a lot of anime ^_^ ok not really, it can help, but eh I know at least one of you don't actually like it so that would present a problem. Sorry I actually have no helpful comments. I know that there are programs and what not that will help with this, but I don't know any. The best way to learn any language is to go to the country that speaks the language, but that can get expensive.

It depends on why you want to speak japanese. if you want to learn it for a business trip, you might just want to get a translation book or something. If you want to learn it for pleasure like I did, I'd say you'll need some audio cd's. I got rosseta stone like some others, but I didn't learn how to write the language...

the best way to learn a language is by going to the country in question. other than total immersion this is the best way. i am actually going back to mexico this year to brush up on my spanish. rosetta stone is also a good program to use. also labeling every single object in the house/apt will help. maybe only speaking japanese in the house will help too