hai. japanese is hard. ^_^ "Quote:
Originally posted by deborah gormley
Just greeting for me I'm afraid:bawling: but willing to learn more:note:
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hai. japanese is hard. ^_^ "Quote:
Originally posted by deborah gormley
Just greeting for me I'm afraid:bawling: but willing to learn more:note:
I know katakana and hiragana plus kanji. I know some basic grammar and sentence pattern. But am not very conversant in japanese.
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Hi. I've been taking Japanese for about 5 years know and know between 200-400 kanji and all kanas fluently. I have been to Japan and that has helped tremendously. Yesterday, a japanese student wrote my name out in kanji and it meant the mountain with no meaning. It seems to change every year.
@number of kanji
Electronic dictionaries usually list all the kanji used in Japanese, that is a bit more than 6000. Of course, that includes the old ones used only in literature, as modern Japanese requires only a bit more than 2000 of them (and not all adults Japanese know even the 1945 jouyou !). There are lots of books with different levels of kanji for Japanese students (and adults). Even university educated people aren't expected to know more than 2500, so I am surprised by Elizabeth's 3000-4000 kanji to read a newspaper.
Elizabeth-san, have you tried any of these books to estimated your knowledge of kanji ? Here is the 1kyuu (level 1, about 6000kanji) for Japanese. There is also level sub-1 (準一級, about 3000 kanji). Very few Japanese can achieve even level sub-1 if from what I've heard.
http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P...9.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
I never learned jap at school... what a shame! Learning Nihongo is my hobby... NO!!! it´s more than that! I love this language!! - IT´s my fate!! Muhahahaha :evil:
....but I´m still so bad :( that´s depressing :bawling:
*That´s why I never had time learn... because of the school... I´m looking for a teacher in my near! <==OFFER ;)*
Japanese is easy when you get over the structures. I thought at the start of the course that it was the hardest language and now I am getting A's in correspondence.
i love nihongo!! :clap: but i can only teach myself as i dont learn it at school. but im doing well. ive been taking japanese not long.
i'm kinda true blue nihongo fan, just know sum'in bout it, The basics i mean...really basic, i learn it all from the jap dorama, they'r GREAT!!
i can't speak or understand japanese..but i would really love to learn..i found the japanese characters or kanji i think is what they call it really cool..looks hard to learn though:d
Kanji isn't too hard to learn once you learn the first 100 or so. But if you study them a lot you will know them in about one week per 10 kanji
yeah, i know how to speak, read, write in japanese. i know about 150 kanji. but i have only been studying for a year. and i am continue. and i would have to agree that its hard esp. for the newbies such as myself.
That is so true! Well for me, I took a Japanese101 in college. my sensei taught us Japanese as if we're Nihojin in Nihon. The speed of the course was this... Kindergarten-12th grade & 1st year of Uni, all in the a matter of 3 months! The language was/is deep within my subconsious mind that I start speaking it and not know that I'm doing it. I can understand Japanese but I just can't always translated to someone that will make complete sense to them.
The one grat thing about the class was that I was the top student and I know more Kanji then that of the Chinese Transfer Students ufufufu. I have the Kanji vocabularly of a 4th year Uni Studet^^ too bad I don't know all of the Kanji that there is, at least I know the most obscure kana and kanji.
Konichua!( is it correct?*confuZed*) I'm new in this forum! Could you please tell me, where can I find a site in which I can study japanese?
Domo Arigato! ( or something like that^_^)
u should study english first ^_^ just kiddin
buy a studybook , there's nothin better.
Hei, hei, hei! I'm studying english for second year!Okai?:eek: If you want we can play CS1.5 or NFS6 or WARCRAFT3! And I mean some website!
Konnichiwa, mina-san! Hajimemashite!
Watashi no namae wa Joe (Jou that is) desu. Douzo yoroshiku!
Watashi wa koukousei desu. Watashi no shumi wa nihongo desu!
Whew, that's the longest chunk of Japanese I've ever written. And I only had to use two dictionaries, Babelfish, and a quick glance at Japanese For Dummies for a particular phrase that I couldn't find (for one's hobby - "I really like it but I'm not very good at it"). Oh well :( . Back to my native tongue now.
I've been interested in nihongo since I was a little kid, and now I'm starting to learn it. I'm making slow progress. I know most of the hiragana (ne/re/wa and sa/chi still drive me crazy), almost none of the hiragana, and about five kanji. Between Usborne's First Thousand Words In Japanese and kanji flash cards, I'm starting to pick up the vocabulary. I also watch fansubbed anime, which helps me with typical conversation and some cultural things. And finally there are plenty of great websites that are helping me learn (including this one ;)
So that's where I am in my studies of nihongo. I just joined this forum today as you can see (*points leftward at join date*), I found it through a Google search for places to learn nihongo. "Sometimes the best friendships are formed through a chance meeting" - (from Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai") ;)
I only can speak a few words...-_-' am just a beginner...
I don't know if we're supposed to WRITE a reply, but here's mine.
I know a little Japanese, the common forms of "to be," and most hiragana. I'd be a little less than a small child, there, right? Anyway, I really like Japanese, although it's pretty hard, and I'm gonna keep at it.
i can speak a good amount, can read hiragana + katakana. Basically I'm illiterate. :auch:
i know the kanas and some grammar and stuff but im not that good yet... i didnt learn enough kanji and flunked an exam :o
I just know "nani……some phrase like that ,
but I would like to learn it ……and go to japan someday
hi,keithd.
I think you'll be ale to come to Japan!;)
hehe,I just past the test for jlpt(all level).I think the kanji section is litter bit hard.(agree?)
通信するために日本語を使用してください! 降参せず、それをよく維持します。
:P
lucky I'm chinese,so most of the kanji meaning r same.
I bought a book and i am in the te&ta forms chapter
i'm High beginner/lower intermediate here.. ^-^
Just learning. Want to take classes but I found out there isnt a lot of places that offers Japanese language course :wary:
unfortunately I have never really had anyone to speak it with since I left High School. So, I have lost the ability to speak it. I know this when I went to get some Natto last weekend and the woman had no idea what I was saying. When I wrote it down, she had no problem with it...too funny
Just words and phrases but I'd really like to learn :(
I'd like to learn and i'm as blank on pronunciation and meaning as a bucket with a hole in it
A good program for learning kanji is JQuickTrans (which i believe you can get from www.coolest.com) which has preloaded jouyou courses in kanji levels 1-12 (i think that's it) and they're in the order the japanese learn them. Another place to learn japanese (basic japanese, gramatics and kana, no kanji, however) is www.japanese-online.com ...16 lessons, should take about 3 months for a quick learner and less than a year for most people.
thanks! 3 months of dedication here i come
*Or 1 year for slacking which i will try and stray from...*
i started learning japanese once, but i had to give it up because i had no time for it... some day i'd like to pick it up again
I'm just starting my Japanese classes, and i'm happy to say that i'm catching on pretty quick. I can read and write Katakana and Hiragana (almost) fluently, which makes me feel warm and squishy inside. :blush:
My classes are actually almost over and wether or not I will be able to continue them is as of now a mystery, so if anyone has any pointers or tips on keeping up my lessons, that'd be nifty!
I was thinking about picking up some Japanese childrens books from this cute little bookstore that I found one day...
Arigato Minasan!:bow:
I want to go to JApan so badly!
I really hope that I can get this whole language thing down, i'm not exactly confident, i'm constantly confusing myself.:blush:
Adventually i'm sure i'll meet my goal! Maybe?
Something funny:
I studied Japanese for quite awhile, and I've even lived in Japan before, but I'm always being knocked back into place.
Today I was working at my desk and my boss stopped by to talk. Since my Japanese is better than his English, I gave him the go to talk in Nihongo to save time... bad idea
Have you ever heard a soft-spoken, middle-aged, alcoholic Japanese man with a horrible countryside accent try to explain an insurance policy in about 30 seconds? I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...
I was wondering,If i wanted to Learn Japanese would anyone here help me or just Guide me with what book to Buy??
I have always wanted to learn but need someone to talk to,so i can advance more
I've been trying to learn japanese for about 2 or 3 weeks i think and I've got greetings and basic conversation down pretty well, although if a native japanese person were to say even the words i know really fast i would probably have to think about what they said for a second and then reply since i havent mastered it completely, i havent really tried to learn hiragana or katakana yet but i know a couple letters, i suppose i should try to take a class or something.. but in my school there is no japanese class >_< and i dont know where to begin trying to find a japanese class or tutor or something.. i dont know where on the poll i should be , can anyone tell me ?
I think you should vote under: Just a few words or phrases (greetings, etc)
You did say you were able to say certain and basic words.well this is what i think,i hope i was able to help a little
Hey there Hidden_Wisdom!
I'm not sure what stores you have available to you, or anything like that...so i'll suggest something that's fairly easy to find and works really well for learning on your own!
I recommend a little book called "Japanese in 10 minutes a day"
If you remain faithful to your studies then it works really well. I picked it up myself, but i'm not to good at being responsible without motivation so I had to hunt out a class....
If you search there are a few sites out there that are really useful as well. I'm um...not quites sure where they are, but if you search on google, i'm sure you'll find them in no time, they're fairly popular.
Anyways, I hope that I could be of some help! If you need me to look around, i'll be more than happy to, i've no life which means plenty of free time, and i'd be glad to help you out! Meheh, please keep in mind that i'm fairly new at this as well though.
Good luck!
Thank you for taking Interest in helping me out with my Little Dream of speaking Japanese,Well I went to Amazon and check under the book title you gave me And i was able to FIND it.I am so happy that im finally going to be getting something that can help me.I would just like to say thanks for anyething.and i think you will be seeing me around more:clap: