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frist learning the language is it hard?
can first learning the language be hard to do or is it relitvly easy?
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Not easy to perfect
Its easy to learn enough to speak a little and understand most conversations but difficult to perfect the language. For example, writing and reading can be tough.
It is best to start with Hiragana and Katakana. They are pretty easy to learn and allow you to read a lot of stuff. Hiragana represents the basic sounds of Japanese and if you can pronoune these you can pronounce any word!
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Hello!! Want to learn to speak Japanese..in return I can teach English or Spanish :)
I recently found out my biological father is Japanese, so I would really like to learn to speak Japanese and embrace the Japanese culture :)
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hello
hello , i'm frenc and i want learn speak japan
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whoa
i can speak some phrases, but i'm still trying to start simple. like learning the hiragana and katakana. but still, phrases are what i started with. i need to watch more shows without subtitles hah
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It's not bad at all!
Japanese is easy to learn if you have the determination, a good book, and a good teacher. When my school offered Japanese, we learned from over the internet. You can buy 'Adventures In Japanese' books on Amazon if I remember correctly. Those are the books I learned from. Unfortunately, my school quit offering the Japanese class after my first year. So, I'll be buying those books, too. Hope it helps!
頑張って！
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Pointers
atomicdolli has a good point. It depends on the person's determination to learn japanese and be fluent with it. One may be more comfortable in classrooms versus others who perfered to studies on their own.
Memorizing what you learn and pratice using it daily helps.
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Its hard alright
See the languge is considered to be one of the most difficult, however learning to speack it is rather easy according to what ive heard and from my studies so far. The difficult part is kanji and well i think i can do with out it for the time being. I realy dont need to worry about reading and writing untill i can speack it.
Oh if any one needs practice i would like to volenter to have regular conversations on msn just send me a message
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yeah.
its quite hard, infact any language can be quite hard unless you practice it everyday with people around you. since no one here speaks japanese with me, i find it ...hmm rather impossible :P
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Fairly Easy
Japanese is a fairly easy language to speak, the writing will take time, but in many ways having a symbol for a word helps, assuming you learn them about the same time. Japanese is fairly consistent in it's structure, in contrast to English which is surprisingly complex. Furthermore, the Japanese vocabulary is much smaller than English. To read basic messages and get a general gist of it, you will need to learn about a thousand Kanji (grade school), and to read everyday material maybe 3 thousand, pretty much everything outside of those will use furigana as a language aid (except some literature, and business papers ect.)
I would say that Japanese is a fairly easy language to learn, if you put forth the work. The problem is many people trying to learn Japanese are fans of anime, and think that watching anime helps them learn Japanese. This is very wrong, no only are they cartoons (imagine learning English from Taz) but watching anime in general just wastes time. You will learn it much faster if you sit down and study than watching cartoons. Get kana out of the way, slowly introduce Kanji rather than putting them off, learn conjugation rules, and also learn the various particles used. Try to get audio tapes of some sort, and pay close attention to pitch differences in words. Get some literature that uses furigana (I actually like manga for this regard, a good one in my opinion is "Fullmetal Alchemist") and just practice reading the kana out loud (don't forget some particles use kana that is different then they sound) also browse through looking for kanji which look familiar. If you learn a kanji, and have to on a regular basis recognize it, it will help you retain it permanently. But this is only good for recognition, manga does not replace other material, especially for grammar.
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I second that notion
omnimalevolent1 has some very good points. I have been studying Japanese on and off for the past 5 yrs. Learning Kana (hiragana & katakana) is a very useful tool. Once you are confident with these it will help with memorizing words (it does for me at least). Anime is definately a bad way to learn Japanese because they use a different dialect in anime than your everyday native Japanese uses, and in many cases anime characters are using very rude forms of Japanese depending on their character. Some terms are also gender specific and without that textbook knowledge you might come off sounding rude or talking like the opposite sex ^^;;.
I have found that although kanji can be the biggest challenge in learning the language that there is a method to the maddness that you will pick up on the more you learn. *Flash cards can be so helpful in learning the 3 Japanese writting systems*. And there are even books out there that are designed to teach you kanji by giving you a visual memory guide, if I can find the title of one such book I will post it in here. Other than kanji, he is again right about learning the right particles. This can be challenging for English speakers or speakers of romance languages because we don't use this system of marking words. Think of particles as part of the word they follow, they are pronounced as if they are one word, and as long as you keep the article with the word it belongs to and end the sentence with a verb, the rest of the order doesn't matter.
For example: Watashi-wa John-to Kyoto ni ikimasu.
Ikimasu = to go verb in this case means going
Watashi-wa=I (I'm)
to = particle refering to "with"
ni = place marker (in this case Kyoto)
(remember that some particles have multiple uses and meanings)
Now as long as I keep the particles where they belong and the verb at the end I can mix this up and it will still be understood.
ex. John-to watashi-wa Kyoto-ni ikimasu.
or Kyoto-ni watashi-wa John-to ikimasu.
You get the point I'm sure. No matter what in the end this means "I'm going to Kyoto with John."
In this way Japanese is very easy. Verb conjugation is more simplistic than other languages, there are rarely plurals other than words like "watashitachi" (we/us), and no masculine or femanine endings etc.
Hopefully I didn't confuse anyone. If you have any questions feel free to message me on here or in my profile. I'll try to reply asap. ^^
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japanese
well learning japanese can be easy or hard deppendng on how much you want it and are willing to do to lear it.
it can be hard at first but once you get it i can be very easy, I dont speake japnese perfectly yet but its not something hard for me anymore.
maybe it also dippends on how good you are with languages.
personally Im pretty good so maybe thats why its so easy for me.
im pretty good at pronouncing it but I think its beacause my language is alike in some stuff.
but try it!and listen to it a lot so you can get it better.
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ganbatte kudasai
Learning japanese is easy. Many foreigners have perfect Japanese in Japan. You should find some friends to talk with. This is key.
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yeah a little bit hard in the beginning
h! yeah, in my opinion it will a little bit hard from the start but later on you can adopt its language as long as you wanted to learn.
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hello
ı Want learn to speak Japanese. I can teach turkish, English or german.
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I need help with english?
I can speak some but i need help
can help me? i can teach japanese?
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i dont know if it maters but i learned katakana first then hiragana. i know most people say to learn hiragana fist but i didn't know at the time.
i dont think it makes much of a difference anyway it was both relatively easy. (ill never know sense i cant unlearn it and try hiragana first ^_^) I'm starting kanji soon anyway so if anyone knows some you can always msg me.
email or here anything is nice
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take a class
I think it is best to take a class. Class will keep you motivated and let you meet other people studying japanese.
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reason
find out why do u want to study the language?
if u got very strong reason..it will help motivate u when u are down..if u find it hard to learn the language.stop for a while..rest and take a deep breath....then try again..giving up half way gonna make u regret...........good luck
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Internet
I'm currently using the internet to help me learn Japanese. I can write and read in Hiragana, thanks to my Spanish teacher, hehe. What I would do is find Japanese language sites and surround yourself with the language as much as possible.
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not easy.
I took classes a while back.. but havent got anyone to practise japanese with.. i find it pretty difficult to be fluent in japanese.. especially so when you hardly have the chance to practise it.. oh well.. i guess it's just my luck. =S
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practice makes perfect
if u do start learning japanese keep at it dont let it get dusty try to use it everyday...
especially with japanese friends or family
がんばってください<---if u can read that you've taken your first baby step = 3
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Chotto~ kedo...
Japanese can be tough when you start, but as long as you work hard and really want to learn it won't be a problem.
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