An easy method or book to fast learn to read Japanese?

Answer 1

You just prompted a pseudo - funny;

' Kamikaze Japanese ' - Learn Japanese as a crash course!

Answer 2

No. Japanese is a very complex and very non-English-like language. I can recommend 3 books, but fast is not part of the equation. Kenneth G. Henshall's A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters is a good start and so is James W. Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. Now the caution: you can learn to look at kanji (Chinese-style pictograms) and understand what they mean in your native language, in other words translate from pictogram directly to idea and this will be the shortest route to understanding written Japanese. This method won't teach you Japanese words at all. To learn conversational Japanese, find a sponsor and spend a year in Osaka. That will get you started. Another good book to get started reading kanji is called Japanese in Mangaland. I don't remember the author, but it's recent and available. It uses cartoons to teach Japanese with all the different writing formats (kanji and kana) and gives an intro to grammer and more. Or you could focus on learning to read kana. That's two different syllabaries (like alphabets but different) and you could learn most of it pretty easily. Most written Japanese is about 80% kana and in a matter of weeks you could be understanding how to translate squiggles into Japanese words, but you would still have to figure out what the words mean. In short (kidding) there are four or five different but mutually supporting methods for learning Japanese- most of them not easy or fast. Good fuku (luck)

Answer 3

How fast is fast? Any method or book would be fine if you spent two years hard work on it.

May be ... to hunt a native Japanese speaking roommate or fall in love with a Japanese, you would learn how to speak Japanese in 3 months or so, however, there is no short cut for reading!

Answer 4

i learned basic japanese by myself a few years ago, just the hiragana, katakana and some kanji. i think the book i used was japanese for young people. but i also watched a few japanese tv shows but the best way to learn is to go to japan.

Answer 5

You'd have to check into if for your area, but many colleges have Japanese language courses, and most community colleges and some larger universities as well allow people to take language courses without full enrollment to the college.

Answer 6

Go to Japan with a chart of the kana and all 1,945 kanji.

There is no easier and faster way than that. Otherwise you're just going to stuggle through like the rest of us humans and learn at a normal pace.

Answer 7

No matter the language, an immersion couse is the easiest way to learn a new tongue. If that's not financially possible, look into the CDROM programs that include video and audio clips.

Answer 8

one very very very hard language--been trying for 8 years--i know what i'm trying to say, i have no idea what anyone else is trying to say--reading that's a whole other ball of wax--so to speak

GOOD LUCK