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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:17 am
what i mean is how or where did u learn Japanese
i bought my japanses coach and some of my responses to stuff is different.
anyway the pointof this is to figure out how u know what u know (like if u go to a cite or are learning from a real tutor)
just curious i wanna know as much as possible (my class trip in 2011 will be to go to japan)
and pleez don't be a jerk about it! (some ppl are so MEAN)
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:51 am
My Japanese is 100% self-studied. These are the resources that I use:
Genki I (textbook, almost at Genki II sweatdrop )
www.smart.fm
www.guidetojapanese.org
I also practice a AJATT-like method where I listen to mostly Japanese music and watch subbed anime. I also listen to some podcasts such as www.japanesepod101.com
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:09 am
Ukryu My Japanese is 100% self-studied. These are the resources that I use: Genki I (textbook, almost at Genki II sweatdrop ) www.smart.fm www.guidetojapanese.org I also practice a AJATT-like method where I listen to mostly Japanese music and watch subbed anime. I also listen to some podcasts such as www.japanesepod101.com I use most of these things too, except for the Genki. NO. NO ANIME. BAD. VERY VERY BAD.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:53 am
>.> That may have come out wrong. I do not learn Japanese through anime. (I have learned a few words from watching though...) The idea is that by immersing yourself in Japanese (i.e. Japanese music and anime) you'll find it easier to learn when studying the language. That's the AJATT (All Japanese All The Time) method. There's a website about it but the person that runs it is a jerk. Here's a chart of the resources that I use..
Primary resources
Genki, smart.fm, guidetojapanese.org
Learning supplements
japanesepod101.com
Practicing what I've learned and AJATT
lang-8.com, gaia, music, anime
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:46 pm
I've been studying Japanese for 2 years. Genki 1 and 2 are great books.
The Intermediate Japanese book is pretty sucky but good for the grammar after Genki. I just got back in May from being in Japan for 9 months. It was a lot of fun!
I plan on taking JLPT 2 in the winter.
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:32 pm
The_Brightest_Moon Ukryu My Japanese is 100% self-studied. These are the resources that I use: Genki I (textbook, almost at Genki II sweatdrop ) www.smart.fm www.guidetojapanese.org I also practice a AJATT-like method where I listen to mostly Japanese music and watch subbed anime. I also listen to some podcasts such as www.japanesepod101.com I use most of these things too, except for the Genki. NO. NO ANIME. BAD. VERY VERY BAD. I disagree that anime is bad at helping you learn. If you meant that using anime, and anime only to teach yourself Japanese, then ya, it's the worst way possible. The more I learn Japanese, the easier it is to pick out words in anime.
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:34 pm
The_Brightest_Moon Ukryu My Japanese is 100% self-studied. These are the resources that I use: Genki I (textbook, almost at Genki II sweatdrop ) www.smart.fm www.guidetojapanese.org I also practice a AJATT-like method where I listen to mostly Japanese music and watch subbed anime. I also listen to some podcasts such as www.japanesepod101.com I use most of these things too, except for the Genki. NO. NO ANIME. BAD. VERY VERY BAD. I assume you meant learning from only anime; in fact, watching anime without subs is very good practice. Even my Japanese teachers here agree (I attend a Japanese-language school in Japan). But it's only that- practice! Something I try to do is translate song lyrics.
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:16 pm
Genki is one of the best tools to use for self study. Buys flash-cards too if you want to study KANA or KANJI. Flash-cards are very useful as study-guides and when you travel. Also I kind of agree and disagree using Anime for studying. It's great to pick up some vocabs and pronounciation but bad for grammar and other uses. がんばって ね~ (Good luck~) biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:36 am
School, my teacher it the best! Riosuke Suzuki. lol no he's not the moto-suzuki person.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:24 am
Been taking Japanese classes at university for four years now. I also keep in touch with the people I met while on exchange in Osaka. Books and games have been a big help too. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:39 pm
I started studying Japanese in my first year of high school, and have been studying through college. I dislike Genki because it's not very organized. Both books do have a good glossary for building vocabulary, though. I recommend for absolute beginners the Ima! series and then once you have that content down I recommend Youkoso! Genki does a good job about putting in loads of kanji as well, but if you want to try something to supplement it, I have heard that Heisig's Remembering the Kanji is a good way of remembering how to write kanji, but not actually learning them.
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:16 pm
I go to a Japanese Language school. It's really nice because they introduce the holidays and culture to everyone, Its super awesome. And, learning japanese at a school is way better than trying to learn yourself. Sometimes, learning by yourself can be really challenging and difficult because there is no one to help you understand what is being shown and or what is being told - it might/can be an inanimate thing. But going to a school, is better because there are teachers to help you understand difficult things.
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:31 pm
I take Japanese lessons at a private language learning school I got to twice a week in the afternoon. My sensei is a Japanese woman who moved to America with her family a few years ago.
I finished Genki book one and I'm starting book two now. I also have some Kanji flashcards that help me study. (learning Kanji is so hard!)
My Japanese teached actually recomended that I listen to anything Japanese as much as possible. That includes Anime as well as Japanese melodramas and music like J-pop or J-rock. It is really important just to get used to hearing a forign language as much as possible. While learning Japanese from Anime alone is a very bad idea it can help you practice listening comprehension if you are already studying the language seriously.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:17 pm
lol. believe it or not, i learned jap from a book called"manga de nippongo" meaning japanese from manga.(or about)
it was written by the creator/ writter of shin chan(luv that show XD).
in this he used japanese pop culture, facts, and..MANGA to teach foreigners and/or japanese themselves how to write as well as speak the language.
it comes in 2 volumes.
trust me, it has everything u need to know about grammar, pronunciation(on'yomi, kun'yomi),etc.
the first volume's written in romaji however, since u;ll gain alot of experience from the first book,u'll b able to read katakana/hiragana so the second volume's in jap. of course the courses in it are in english, french, which ever language u bought the book in.
i have a couple other books like "learn japanese in 3 months" it teaches the basics, kinda like a revision. u have cd's that has conversations in them, etccc.
another book called "japanese in thirty lessons" for more revision and for more facts.
and....
another book(yaaaaaY) called, integral japanese which teaches u dialect and how to use what was learned in the chapters on appropriate occasions.
as much as i'd like to say that i'm a genius at japanese, in all honesty, i haven't had time to open any of those books in a while. so i'm VERY rusty. i';m practically and disposable item. XD
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:47 pm
I took Japanese class in high school for a year and now, I am taking classes at my University. We are using a textbook titled "Yookoso".
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