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 Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:28 pm
YOU CANNOT POSIBALLY BELIEVE THAT IT IS PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, OR EMOTIONALLY POSSILBLE TO LEARN THREE ALPHABETS AND 2,000 KANJI!!!!! gonk gonk gonk It's much easier to speak than write.
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:25 am
I wouldn't say that Japanese is hard to learn, but more than anything it's time consuming. I had two VERY good Japanese teachers in college, I studied for three years. On average, I studied for an hour to an hour and a half a night, but I didn't mind because I really wanted to learn the language. It takes time to learn any language, but Japanese takes longer to learn than most because of the time it takes to learn the kanji, and the different ways of addressing different people. (Someone earlier in the post mentioned the 3 writing systems. It's not as bad as it sounds, because two of them are the same alphabet: one for native Japanese words, and another for foreign words. The only system hard is the kanji.) And then there are counters too. Overall, if you have the time to put into it, it's not hard. At least it wasn't for me.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:13 pm
Also some people find different languages difficult. For example, many people say that French is easy but I found it really difficult (despite managing to bluff my way to a high grade), whereas I found Italian easy when others were complaining about how difficult it is.
Also, depending on how you work it may be easier to learn on your own. If you have a good teacher they can help you to no end, but if your teacher doesn't work in a way you are comfortable with or is just plain bad then you will never get anywhere.
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:07 pm
It was difficult for me at the start because I wasn't used to symbols.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:32 pm
shut_up_now13 YOU CANNOT POSIBALLY BELIEVE THAT IT IS PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, OR EMOTIONALLY POSSILBLE TO LEARN THREE ALPHABETS AND 2,000 KANJI!!!!! gonk gonk gonk It's much easier to speak than write. actually, there are technically 4 different alphabets. hiragana, katakana, kanji, and another one they modeled after english. this fourth one is a pronunciation guide more or less for abbreviations like TB, and other medical terms. they manipulate katakana, the alphabet used to spell foreign and borrowed words to use as a reference when it comes to saying things like ADD which would be written as it is now, but pronounced “エデｲデｲ” hiragana and katakana are the two easiest alphabets to learn in japanese. both amount to what, about 50 symbols? but don't let that discourage you, it took me about 4-5 days to learn by myself, and all i did for those four to five days was write the kana, eat, then sleep.(i was doing this over the summer, so i had nothing better to do) take maybe three symbols per day. and when you think you've got it, test yourself, and always practice writing it so you can get the strokes down. and take one alphabet at a time, there's no rush, that's the beauty of independent study. go young grasshopper, do not try, do. (XD sorry, i couldn't resist)
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:53 pm
this all depends on yourself truthfully. yes at first its kinda hard cuz trying to translate it from japanese to english you have to wait for the sentence to end. so its backwards from us. but..its not that hard if you have an interest in it. im taking college courses right now and i live in japan. in college they teach you the masu form of everything cuz its polite but as you advance on through the classes they teach you the more common forms of talking to you can talk to your friends. its not really hard if you put something into it and your interested. if you just gaf it off then you probably wont ever learn it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:34 pm
Japanese is very easy! I just dont take the time to study it enough~I'm busy learning other languages!
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:52 pm
It's nice to have an intensive class. And speak often.
Get a speaking buddy to practice with.
Mmm... but well, starting on my 4th month, and we're doing informal speech now. We finished with polite.
We're working on kanji for all the verbs we've learned.
We start everyday by asking how the other person's morning has been, if they had breakfast, what they did over the weekend, if they're doing anything tomorrow ect. in formal, and then speaking with the professors more on the formal level (unless we're practicing a certain phrase in informal).
We're almost 90 kanji right now.
(we get about 20 each week to learn at this point, since we're still beginning)
And so far... it's not that hard.
As long as I remember to study the material we're practicing currently (and no accidentally studying the next chapter up or something... not that i've done that.... *shifty eyes*)
But I would say speaking SOOO much, EVERYDAY has helped inprove my japanese more than just listening to shows in japanese every day.
But I would say to listen to a lot of japanese too.
Variety shows, the news (if you don't get bored with it), DRAMAS!!!, anime w/e
I like watching dramas mostly. The more recent the better, to at least try to keep up with current informal phrases.
^_^
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:37 pm
I've studied Spanish for longer than Japanese, and when comparing the two, I would definitely say that Japanese is more difficult. That being said, English is my native language, so of course it would be easier to identify more with Spanish in its similarites to English.
I believe I have a decent knack for learning languages, so I can't say Japanese has been very difficult for me. I caught on rather quickly.
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:18 pm
I find it rather simple, which is saying something, considering that English is my first and primary language. I'd say there are some hurdles concerning the use of pronouns and the use of particles such as "to" and "de", etc. Japanese is my third language. My second is German. Both come rather naturally, to my surprise. German's just like English structurally, and Japanese is much more abstract, which I enjoy, since my friends can't quite process it as quickly.
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:11 pm
Im sorry but I have to be honest...when I saw the topic name I thought of something else redface
Anyway! The hardest thing for me learning japanese is remebering kanji and hiragana. Even the speaking style of japanese.
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:20 am
I've heard that Japanese has one of the hardest grammars to learn, but in terms of sounds it's one of the easier languages for english speakers.
Basically, any language is hard. Learning a language is kind of like being married. razz Lots of work, and if you don't love it it'll never last.
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