Another Question about Japanese ?

Question

How long does it usually take a person to learn how to speak Japanese, not writing just speaking

Answer 1

japanese conversation... less than 2 yrs, but depends

'hiragana' and 'katakana' are easy characters to master. my husband mastered all in less than 2 weeks. each represents the same 47 syllables, and the alphabets are used together with kanji in writing modern japanese.
'kanji' is different...
it takes looooooong time.
normally japanese children learn kanji for more than 12 yrs. (which means highschool degree) some 3,000 kanji characters are in common use in modern japanese, but an asahi shimbun survey says that 94% of written japanese communication is in 1,500 characters

my husband couldn't speak japanese when he came japan.
but he can speak fluently now. he love to speak so he got good at english so soon.

i think you can try japanese conv. and just 'hiragana' 47 syllables, 'katakana' 47 syllables.

gambatte (do your best!)

*grace
japanese and chinese are totally different language and culture.

the japanese language is thought to be related to korean, manchurian, and mongolian, and more distantly to ginnish and hungarian. but these connections lie in the remote past. until the 5thcentury, when chinese characters (=kanji) were introduced, the japanese had no writing system just spoken language. thereafter, a system was developed for writing japanese using chinese characters. using kanji as a base, the japanese devised two syllabic alphabets - 'hiragana' and 'katakana'.
now, chinese and japanese are using little bit different kanji. because chinese changed some kanji lately.

Answer 2

How to "speak" depends on what you need japanese for and in what kinds of situations. Ordering a beer in a bar is not the same as engaging in business meetings using respect language and technical language. I can only speak from my experience but I went from zero to level 2 of the japanese language proficiency test in 3 years. thats while living amongst the locals and hearing it every day. JLPT 2 requires about 900 hours of instruction to pass the test. thats about 4 hours a day, every day for a year.

Katakana and Hiragana you can learn in about a month, there are about 1900 Kanji in daily use and most japanese cant even remember them all. Fluency depends on your level of vocabulary, knowledge of grammar rules and also knowing how not to talk like a textbook- sociolinguistic and sociocultural competency plays a part as well.

Answer 3

It really depends on the person and where they came from,If you learned an asian language before then its not gonna be as hard for you, or if you are a close relative of japanese like chinese, but if you are just starting and u are not are not a native tounge of asia then its gonna be kinda hard in some places, that would just mean more practice,Hope this helps ^_^

Answer 4

まあ、人それぞれになるんじゃね？

Answer 5

depends on your apptitude for understanding and learning languages.

Answer 6

It depends on how easy it is for you. Did you know that chinease restaurants are making their food out of cardboard? Thay chop the cardboard real small and make pretend meat out of it. I'm not kidding it was on the news.