teaching yourself to speak japanese

I just noticed the other japanese-language thread, so nevermind. I was reading that post though, and I noticed a lot of you say you watch anime to help you out with learning. That hasn't really worked for me...it's too fast, and I think anime sometimes uses alot of slang and they're constantly dropping syllables, especially the u.

Anyway, I do know several words, but I don't think at this point I'd be able to put a sentence together by myself other than an introduction. and as far as hiragana, katakana, and kanji is concerned, I'm a hopeless case.

 

Practise makes perfect

 

i agree with Nay, I learnt my limited Japanesen from a guidebook, practiced, and went to Japan where it improved out of sight, very easy language to speak, just dont ask me to write anything!

 

Im with you MoonShyne. I am learning Japanese too and am just taking my time with it. I have put up a piece of paper with all the Hiragana symbols on my wall so I can learn to understand what each one is. Kanji scares the hell out of me haha so I am only going to do that once I get all the basics. I have found that anime really does help with my learning! I have only learnt simple words but it definitely has given me a lot of them!

So yeah, I am learning at my own pace, until I am ready to live in Japan when I am older. Also, if you happen to see any words in Japanese then I always pluck a few out, translate them, and then look up the meaning of the word. So that way I learn but slowly. Its better to revise the words rather than just read a list of them and forget a day or two later.

 

Another thing which I have recently been doing is translating songs from Romaji into Hiragana also. I have found that I am beginning to learn more symbols that way. Although I know I cannot become fluent by just looking at the words I know that it helps to understand as much as possible beforehand.

 

who will be my japanese teacher
i'm chinese

 

Hehe if you find one then please inform me! I would love to join your class XD

 

Here is your Janaese class:
Now its opened for you guys! lol

To: Just Curious
I used to translate English songs lyrics into Japanese.
When you translate Roma-ji into Hiragana, do you see the meanings?

I do understand, reading/writing words is different from "speaking" or listening...
Usually some Japanese ppl are good at writing/reading English, but they dont
speak fluently. (listening to English speaking is easier than speaking)
I still have some strong accent with English but some Americans say it sounds cute..
I dont think so thou....

Whenever non-Japanese ppl speak Japanese, they have some kinda accent,
but its very fine. Even 2-3 words of Japanese if you sopke with Japanese,
they would say "Whoa! you speak Japanese very good!"
When I took my American buddy to Japanese foods restaurant and he spoke
with the clerk, "Arigato gozaimashita", only this word inspired the clerk and
she said "Whoa! your Japanese is very good!" LOLs

Cheers!

 

HAHAHAH yeah they told me mine was very good after I said my whole 3 words that I meant!! Except for one honest guy who told me I sucked.

 

Yeah I used to get told mine was very good all the time, it's just the Japanese way... they are very polite. They will appreciate any minimal amount of Japanese that you know.

 

We Japanese like the fact of non-Japanese ppl are trying to study it,
and we appricete all the effort that you make.
Some ppl are very good at speaking Japanese, some ppl became comedians
who can make us laugh out loud.

 

Beat Takeshi style?

 

you cannot teach yourself japanese ,
you need to go to japan
you can however learn some japanese vocab by yourself but putting it together would require practice

 

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I'm learning Japanese too!

I am very lucky cos I actually have a Japanese couple who are teaching me Japanese in return for my helping them with their pronunciation.

I found a link on You Tube with one of my favourite Naruto songs, Blue Bird,

with the English and Japanese and am trying to learn that

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKOzcV3nnU

 

It's really not to hard, just come hear and learn! lol

 

Well that sounds amazing, if only I could afford it!

 

Rosetta Stone has been helping me learn Japanese.

 

had to look that up, lol, thought you were joking!

Is it good?

 

I like it. It took me a while to get used to the way it instructs but once you 'get' the teaching style it's really very nifty.


Never thought of looking up Youtube songs with the words written. Neat.
Up until know the only Japanese songs I've learned have all been drinking songs.