I really want to learn Japanese but don't know where to start.
2006-11-29 16:04:23 · 9 answers · asked by Jenny Bot 19 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Special Education
move to japan. if that doesn't work find some other way to immerse yourself in the language. if all you hear and are able to communicate is in Japanese you will learn faster
2006-11-29 16:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by shakes 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had gotten a Japanese curriculum for my kids about a year ago~ they are going slow and are not consistent. But, I know if I do it with them they will learn faster than I will. I researched the internet and found a fairly inexpensive curriculum that gets a person a 'head start', claiming I could learn Japanese in 10 days. I'm going to use that.
2006-11-30 12:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by Duv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While spending a few years in Japan is indeed the best way to learn japanese, there are less drastic ways to start - but they will take everyday effort.
First, get yourself the Pimsleur audio method and listen to one session every day. That method keeps repeating things over and again. Kind of annoying, and gives you the impression you're not learning much, but at least you *do* learn the basics and pronunciation. Second, learn the two alphabets (hiragana and katakana, 46 characters each). Third, get yourself a method written mainly (or better yet, only) in Japanese; I used "minna no nihongo". It will lack explanations in english, but that you can also find in the second site listed below.
Now you just have to practice. A lot.
recommended websites:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/7047/
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/s_jgrammar.html
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
2006-12-03 05:18:06 · answer #3 · answered by frank m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having a reasonable level of competence in Thai, Spanish and French (in addition to my native English) and a small smattering of Korean, I have had a bit of experience learning a language other than my own. I gained a basic level of competency in Thai, faster than any of the others, one year.
Here were/are the steps: 1. Move to and work in the country of the language you plan to learn. 2. Live in a local (not expatriate) community. 3. Find the best set of language tapes on the market, and listen to them four hours a day right after work and at every possible spare moment (while running, doing work around the house, or any type of non-mental intensive task.) 3. Read and study the writing system every day in all your spare moments. 4. Speak the langauage at every opportunity no matter how good or bad you are. 5. Create a new social circle made almost exclusively of people who speak the target language.
This system works, but is VERY demanding. The only alternative I know of is to be born with natural language talent, as some are. I have a friend who learned Thai quicker and better than me and she studied less than an hour a day, but is what we would call 'a natural.'
2006-11-30 03:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
take a college course....and you won't learn it fast, Japanese is a complicated language.
2006-11-30 00:13:33 · answer #5 · answered by ME2010 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
marry a japanese.
2006-11-30 00:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ian Fisher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how fast u learn is not important.
how fast other understand your japanese it more important
2006-11-30 00:07:55 · answer #7 · answered by RASUNA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go and live/work in japan (pref not in big cities)for a few months you will learn it fast
2006-11-30 00:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by srini 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋