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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:10 am

Should I learn Hiragana, Katakana, or Romanji first?
Which should I concentrate on more or should I do them all at once...?
Yea. I'm trying to learn on my own...
And when I'm able to take a language in highschool, I'll learn more there. Please share your opinions

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:58 am

N A I V E - M U F F I N

Should I learn Hiragana, Katakana, or Romanji first?
Which should I concentrate on more or should I do them all at once...?
Yea. I'm trying to learn on my own...
And when I'm able to take a language in highschool, I'll learn more there. Please share your opinions

Hiragana first, then katakana, then while learning grammar and such learn Kanji.

Roumaji (no "N" just to correct you)ローマ字 is the letters you're reading right now. English, Italian, French, Spanish, etc... use them.

If you mean learn words using it first I say don't. Hiragana and katakana are the syllabaries and get you started on the language. You'll know what sounds are a part of the language, and you need to know those for kanji and everything else.

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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:58 pm

avoid learning in romaji as much as possible. learn to actually /read/ the kana. if you rely on romaji for your recognizability of words, you will phail at japanese.

it would be akin to a person with a non-latin alphabet trying to learn english using their native alphabet. ten to one it's just not going to work. avoid romaji, learn your kana well, and go from there.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:27 pm

romaji is just the sounds so you don't have to sweat it... once you know hiragana and katakana you already know it~

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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:41 pm

SannaSK

avoid learning in romaji as much as possible. learn to actually /read/ the kana. if you rely on romaji for your recognizability of words, you will phail at japanese.

it would be akin to a person with a non-latin alphabet trying to learn english using their native alphabet. ten to one it's just not going to work. avoid romaji, learn your kana well, and go from there.

i back sanna up because that way you dont rely on the romaji. i did start to learn and id write the romaji but my friend told me not to do that so i stopped and i found i learnt the kana faster instead of thinking:step1-read [romaji], step2read kana that im trying to learn, step3-begin to understand sound and meaning .. and build on that.. if you start from kana then you can skip step1 because you can become confident in not having to rely on romaji.

*personally now i find it awkward to read romaji because im way used to reading hiragana or katakana

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:03 am

I learned Hiragana and Romaji at the same time just because it's starting from scratch and if you use a text book you have to be able to read the sounds in the first place anyway!
Stick to Hiragana as much as possible but when you need Romaji, use it to better your understandings.

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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:43 am

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romaji is just the sounds so you don't have to sweat it... once you know hiragana and katakana you already know it~

yup yup

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:39 pm

Pssssh
Silly rabbit. Everyone knows you have to start off with Hiragana. talk2hand
Common sense told me to start off with Hiragana when I studied the charts. *I mean no offense... ninja *

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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:54 pm

Hmm, I would have voted Kanji if that was on the poll, but instead I picked Hiragana. As others have pointed out, I would avoid Romaji as much as possible. (The only benefit to learning it in my opinion is to know exactly how to type something out in Japanese while using an English-based keyboard.)

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