I want to go to japan but, I've tryed learning japanese...?

Question

its just to hard and I also dont have enough money for it what should I do?

Answer 1

When you say you "tried to learn Japanese", do you mean that you tried to teach yourself? If so, then I would say that it is certainly difficult to try to teach yourself Japanese. You need to take a class, so that you can speak it, hear/understand it, read it, and write it. Also, by taking a class, you will have someone (the teacher/professor) who can correct you whenever you make mistakes. On your own, you can teach yourself vocabulary, and probably very simple sentences, but the grammatical differences are not easy to get used to, especially when you are teaching yourself, because you never know if you understand everything correctly.

If you DID take a class and you think it's too difficult, then you need to commit yourself and study more.

If you don't have the money to go to Japan right now, but you really want to go, then you need to save your money. If you are in junior high or high school, then you could search for summer homestays in Japan, which are cheaper than year-long exchanges. Also, look for scholarships. If you are in college, then there are many study abroad opportunities for summer exchanges, semester exchanges, and year-long exchanges, and your school should have scholarships.

Answer 2

As a tourist, if you have little or no Japanese ability, stick to Tokyo and other big tourist places, and you won't have many problems. When you get outside of Tokyo, say down to Osaka, for example, the menus and signs have little to no English on them to help tourists in most cases. To live in Japan however, its all but manditory to be able to speak and read Japanese. It can get difficult at times to learn, but if you go slowly, it should sink in if you keep working at it.

If you have a job, put away 10, 20, heck, if you can afford it, 50 bucks a check and then don't touch it, call it your Japan fund, once you get the price of a ticket, plus about $1000 go on vacation and have a blast. ($1000 would be a good amount for a week with lodging)

If you are in College, when you graduate, you can apply to be a JET or other type of English teacher in Japan, it will get you a work visa, a job, and usually a subsidized apartment to live in... its a great way to get your foot in the door and to get a real job. To do the above, you must have at least a 4 year college degree.

When I went to Japan last year (Nov-Dec) I was planning on only staying 3 weeks, but then thru some creative methods, I was able to stay for a full month for no extra money, instead of getting a hotel room and paying by the day, I instead rented a guest house apartment for a whole month and it was the perfect base of operations. It cost me a grand total of 101000 yen for the month (including the 10,000 yen non refundable fee) for a furnished apartment with internet and all the appliances, (at today's rate, its about $832 for an apartment in Tokyo for 1 month, if I had stayed extra months it would be cheaper as well, $742 a month, pretty much a steal in Tokyo, sure the bed was small, the walls were kinda thin, but it was pretty dang nice for its size.

Answer 3

You can buy a Japanese learner book with lots of Japanese words inside. Learn your Japenese from there.
Besides you'll also learn few Japanese as you travel to Japan. I used to stay in Japan for one month. After one month I found myself able to understand and speak few Japanese words.

Answer 4

Yes, Japanese is a very hard language to learn. I know because I am trying to learn it as well! :) It doesn't have to cost a lot though. There is a book called Japanese In 10 Minutes A Day, by Kristine K. Kershul, from Bilingual Books, that will teach you the basic phrases that you need to get by. It costs about $10 on Amazon. I would suggest that you just learn as much about the culture as you can, and the necessary phrases that you need to get by in day-to-day life in Japan. Then go to Japan, and try to pick up more of the language while you're their. (This is what I'm going to do!) And make sure that you learn about the culture, especially proper etiquette, so that you don't make a fool of yourself when you go to Japan! :)
I'll make links to a few of the websites that I have found useful! I hope they help!
http://www.thejapanfaq.com/
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
http://www.cnfj.navy.mil/phrases.html
http://freejapaneselessons.com/
http://www.thejapanfaq.com/FAQ-Manners.html
http://www.artisandevelopers.com/web/tokyo/etiquette.htm
I hope I helped!!!

Answer 5

Hi, I'm Japanese. How long are you going to stay in Japan? If it's not too long like few weeks, I don't think you need to lean Japanese. Honestly, leaning Japanese may not help you during your travel. You just need a little book of Japanese just for travel, and you will be able to find somebody who can speak English in Japan. Also, most of Japanese are having hard time listening and speaking English, but they can read English and reply with writing, so If you really need help, you can use a pen and paper.

Answer 6

You know, you can actually arrange a job before you go to Japan...

Best way to learn is by practical methods - actually living in the country...

Try Nova for an English teaching position.... I've had some good friends of mine get flown over there through Nova or at least pay their one way ticket (then usually, if you fulfill the contract, the return is paid for).....

Just don't end up with all english speaking friends, which is easy to happen... :)

B.

PS - someone made a comment saying 'learn before you go don't make a fool of yourself when you get there' - but as i mentioned, actually going to the country to learn is often the best way... Many Japanese are happy to help with Japanese in exchange for some English tutorials ;)

Answer 7

The quality option to study Japanese is by way of a form of approaches. You must paintings for your grammar, listening, talking, studying and writing. Its quality to suppose of those as separate classes and attention on every distinct class as those require special approaches and systems. Start through finding out the fundamentals by way of grammar. These books quite helped me: • Shin Nihongo no Kiso I & II • Shin Nihongo no Kiso Japanese Kanji Workbook • A Course in Modern Japanese through The University of Nagoya Press • An Introduction to Modern Japanese through Osamu Mizutani & Nobuko Mizutani I additionally advocate looking to study a detailed quantity of vocab or kanji on a daily basis as this is helping you construct up your vocab and kanji capability. I attempted to study five kanji according to day or approximately 20 every week and did the equal with vocab.

Answer 8

Man, I can relate. Japanese is a difficult language to learn. There are a lot of "that's just the way it is, accept it." which makes it that much more difficult.

The best cheapest thing I can recommend would be to find Japanese friends and have them not necessarily teach you, but help you speak. You can pick up a lot from just hanging around a few Japanese people. You could help them with their English as well.

Good luck.

Answer 9

Have you been in foreign countries before? How much travel experience do you have? Do you have serious health or medical issues that would be of concern? Would you be in a group or alone? Do you have some basic street smarts like "Oh, ****, I'm really lost now, maybe I should ask the US Soldier over there how to get to Tokyo...?"

I had to fly to Japan to get my Korean visa. The Koreans didn't believe I could fly to Japan and back in one day and nail my visa. I couldn't have done it without the help of doing things like asking a friendly US soldier. It also helps knowing a word or two of Japanese, if all you know is "Konnichiwa!" and "heh". People are much more friendly to you if you at least try to speak their language, even if you screw up badly and make a fool of yourself.

Answer 10

If you're going just to visit, you don't need to learn Japanese. If money is a problem, how to you plan on getting there ?