What are your language methods?
By troublesome
@troublesome (324)
United States
August 5, 2009 11:18am CST
I've started to self teach myself Japanese and I was just wondering, what what methods of study do y'all use to learn a new language? I take notes, but I'm still in the learning process of learning the three writing systems. It's take time if I stay committed.
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@indybaty (368)
• Panama
6 Aug 09
I was self teaching myself japanese as well... got a very good deal with a coworker of mine with a japanese system that works pretty good. Unfortunately I have to organize myself better now so I can take the time to learn again. In audio.
I guess the first thing that I would learn is the speech and audio first (not everyone has to follow it, its just easier for me) and then I learn the writting.
Katakana and Hiragana are the easiest japanese writting systems as far as I know,
Ive known people that can learn this for a year or so with practice, Kanji being harder takes a longer time (around 3 years maybe).
I encourage you to keep on with your lessons.
Konishiwa!
@indybaty (368)
• Panama
7 Aug 09
You welcome dear!... when learning a language its always something fun... it also helps to understand some of the japanese culture.
Oh and this is also something silly, but for a friend of mine (he was learning german though not japanese but gave me the advice anyway) learn some slang and curse words as well, at least how they sound, and take it from there.
@frayeleo15 (97)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
My way is memorizing or be familiarize with some japanese speacially their nouns :D I used an english-japanese dictionary. And i also listening JPOP and watching japanese anime xD
@neknek (249)
• Philippines
5 Aug 09
hiragana and katakana is fairly easy. kanji takes a lot of work though. i studied in a chinese school when i was in elementary, so it's pretty confusing for me. the characters generally have the same meaning but the pronunciation is different, and more often a kanji character are read differently, depending on the word. so im kinda stuck with kanji. as for the languange part, practice, practice, practice words, phrases, sentences out loud. so you'll get comfortable saying them. it's also best if you can find a native speaker.. or someone who can speak japanese fluently at the least.
