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 Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:23 am
Actually, nvm I'm chatting with him over Gmail and he's correcting me, yay 3nodding
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 9:38 am
At my old job, I used to keep myself awake during the nightshifts by memorizing the hiragana and katakana systems in my head.
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:35 pm
Try to find Japanese people to talk to, but I think what your doing is really well. I use basic Japanese in everyday speech, and after awhile, my friends will know what I mean. For instance, instead of saying sorry, I say Gomen. I do the same when saying please, thank you, hello, goodbye. lol. Every now and then I add more phrases (Otherwise my friends will be lost and I won't feel as eager to say new things). Just today, I kept calling my friend a cruel person in Japanese. lol. They pick up and sometimes they will place in a word of their own. It's good practice and you teach others at the same time. Plus if you do it gradually, people won't think your a freak. They'll just consider it part of your personality. lol
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:11 pm
I actually do japanese at school so... sweatdrop
But playing japanese games on the computer helps~
and chatting in this guild helps too 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:08 pm
Well, I have a full-time job, and am on day-release studying CAD on Thurs (just broke up though, so plenty of time for hardcore Nihongo study) so I would just write out the phrases in my old book (it's from 1987 and pretty rubbish but it's all I have atm) and then translate them into hiragana (the book recommends you don't learn hiragana!! It's that dumb and old!) and then translate them into literal-ness (I find it easier to learn a language if I can think in the correct word order - I think 'the blue cat' for English and 'the cat blue' in French and I believe it is 'blue cat' without the 'the' in Japanese is it not?) for a half-hour or more before I fall asleep.
I also listen to Learn Japanese podcasts at work all day. ^_^
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:05 pm
Ok, so I read through the entire thing in here, and THANK GOD no one has said that you should just learn Japanese through Anime (I had a bunch of friends in Level 1 who thought they knew almost everything thanks to anime...thankfully the stayed in level one xd ). Other than what you're doing (although I do suggest a wider varietyof music) all I can say is, try to make Japanese less a chore, and more fun. Like just say random things in Japanese that apply to the moment, like if you're driving in the car with your friend, whenever you stop at a red light scream "あのライトは赤いですよ！！！" (ano raito wa akai desu yo). Not only do you get a wierd look fromn your friend, but you're building on your memory.
As for Kanji, I don't know how you'll like this idea, but I recently found a book that may help you. It's a collection of Japanese short stories that has Japanese on one side, English on another, and then on the bottom half of each page is a HUGE word bank that helps you with Kanji and unfamiliar words. It's mostly like reading any other book you've read, but it actually helps with Kanji recognition (and the stories ain't half bad). It's called "Breaking Into Japanese Literature" by Giles Murray, who does alot of text-book writing.
Stroke order and radicals, I'm sorry to say, take up time and there's almost no way around it (at least not one I know). Hope it helps.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:28 pm
I have the "My Japanese Coach" game for the nintendo DS so I play it at least once everyday. I also get really bored in class and start writing sentences on...anything. But if you can't get away and study then try to see if you can remember the spellings for certian words...
sorry I'm not much of a help
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:01 pm
One of the things I used to do a lot was to try to carry on my internal monologue in Japanese -- that is, if I was thinking about something I'd try to see what of it I could say in Japanese instead of English. It got to the point where I'd occasionally have the thought in Japanese FIRST without ever going through it in English.
More recently, though -- that is to say, the last three or four years -- I HAVEN'T been keeping it in my daily routine.
I was afraid I was going to lose my proficiency, but then I picked up a chat buddy from this guild and started talking to her, and discovered that I haven't actually lost all that much after all.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:45 pm
At my University, we have a lot Foreign exchange and transfer students from Japan. They converse with me (with the limited Japanese I know) in Japanese. If you have any friends or know any Japanese transfer/foreign exchange students, maybe you can practice with them.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:40 am
I've been a pretty non-stop gamer for the past few years. Nowadays, everyday, I wake up and go to my PS3 and start talking to my Japanese friends which pretty much take-over my friends list. For the past 3yrs I've been speaking Japanese pretty much everyday over video games and pretty much prefer everything in Japanese now over english including friends. It's fun to bring american friends along with me when I go to speak to my Japanese friends. Since they always ask if I really do speak Japanese or not Lol.
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:51 am
I try to make it a daily matter. I write a blog only in japanese on ameblo.jp. I watch J-dorama in japanese language (ok, with english subtitles, but sometimes without).
And at my university we have the so-called tandemprogram. You meet with japanese exchange students regularly to help each other to learn the other language, so I get the chance to talk in japanese quite often.
And I'm a "teacher" at a language school. I teach japanese to two students every saturday.
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:29 pm
What I do is speak it on a reguarl basis. Like a random word at a random time. ^_^ it helps me remember. I'll study Dialogs that my class has already done so they stick. and watch anime in japanese if I can
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:09 pm
Skype is amazing. I had a Japanese foreign exchange student stay at my house last year, and we still talk every week, while she's at her home in Japan, and I'm here in America.
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