Learn japanese
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Do you know any tutorials online to learn japanese for free? I want to at least be able to read if not speak. I did a little google searching and it turns out that there is Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, so where do I go? It really shocked me how complicated it could be knowing only A-Z alphabet.
This will be no easy task to learn on your own. You're better off taking a course on Kanji or at least getting a copy of rosetta stone. The symbols can become extremely complex.
Well thats not to say it's completely impossible. I'm self taught in japanese, and still learning. I've been studying on my own off and on for the last 4 years.
I would strongly suggest looking up "remembering the kana by james w. heisig" although his method seems childish it was very helpful. just make sure you get parts 1 and 2.
Also you should start learning hiragana before katakana. Practice regularly and keep at it.
There are other books you should look up I'll have to find my folder full of the e-books before i can tell you which ones are best for beginners.
I would strongly suggest looking up "remembering the kana by james w. heisig" although his method seems childish it was very helpful. just make sure you get parts 1 and 2.
Also you should start learning hiragana before katakana. Practice regularly and keep at it.
There are other books you should look up I'll have to find my folder full of the e-books before i can tell you which ones are best for beginners.
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Oh crap, that's too bad.. Anyway, after further knowing that there is about 50,000 kanji, I was like wtf?? Are 26 characters not enough? How would you type that in your computer?
But seriously, I am really amaze how they memorize all that kanji, hiragana and katana and what do you know there is also romaji.. I was like o.O
@Seraphimsan
thanks for giving hope.. I was like, man I better learn C++ language instead.
Oh crap, that's too bad.. Anyway, after further knowing that there is about 50,000 kanji, I was like wtf?? Are 26 characters not enough? How would you type that in your computer?
But seriously, I am really amaze how they memorize all that kanji, hiragana and katana and what do you know there is also romaji.. I was like o.O
@Seraphimsan
thanks for giving hope.. I was like, man I better learn C++ language instead.
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well there's only about 2000 you're expected to know for everyday use.
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Hehe, it's no problem. I admit it is very daunting, but honestly if you have a brain, and you use it, there isn't much you can't wrap your head around with enough practice and learning.
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Hehe, it's no problem. I admit it is very daunting, but honestly if you have a brain, and you use it, there isn't much you can't wrap your head around with enough practice and learning.
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Whew!! this is overwhelming, wait 2000 divided by 26... uhmm it's about 77 times. Anyway I'll give it a shot. But how do japanese people actually write? type?
well I can type in japanese with an english keyboard. I type out the romaji and it converts it to hiragana, katakana if i select it, or kanji.
for instance
ごめん なんじ お なみ ですか
Gomen nani o namae desu ka
Sorry, what is your name?
for instance
ごめん なんじ お なみ ですか
Gomen nani o namae desu ka
Sorry, what is your name?
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^Yeah...but that sentence... なみ==nami, not namae, and なんじ==nanji, not nani. :P
Although that sentence is a bit odd...ごめん is very casual and sounds weird with the です. I think すみません is more approriate in this case anyway, since ごめん is more like "Sorry (for something I did wrong)" as opposed to "Excuse me". Not really sure what you were trying to do with the nani o namae though...
すみません、おなまえは？
Sumimasen, onamae wa?
Although that sentence is a bit odd...ごめん is very casual and sounds weird with the です. I think すみません is more approriate in this case anyway, since ごめん is more like "Sorry (for something I did wrong)" as opposed to "Excuse me". Not really sure what you were trying to do with the nani o namae though...
すみません、おなまえは？
Sumimasen, onamae wa?
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I may have forgotten to mention that It's been quite some time since i last studied :P
edit: also that's out of a crappy book that my parents picked up for me to learn japanese ._. Just realized this. Conflicting with what I've learned long since then.
edit: also that's out of a crappy book that my parents picked up for me to learn japanese ._. Just realized this. Conflicting with what I've learned long since then.
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50,000 kanji may sound like a lot, but I would think that it would be the equivalent to the innumerable number of words in the English language. I can just imagine an English student in Japan:
"You mean the English language has hundreds of thousands of words!? How do they memorize them all?" (in Japanese, of course)
"You mean the English language has hundreds of thousands of words!? How do they memorize them all?" (in Japanese, of course)
| edit: also that's out of a crappy book that my parents picked up for me to learn japanese ._. Just realized this. Conflicting with what I've learned long since then. |
If you're bored, I could teach you random stuff. :P
That would be great if I had the time ;o i'm stuck studying my self to the bone trying to raise my GPA and stay a student.
I made (in ruby, a japanese programming language, heh) a program for memorizing stuff, and files of hiragana and katakana kanji etc for it. I can put it up if you want it.
practice.rb
http://pastebin.com/BTZmzeGD
hiragana.txt
http://pastebin.com/v3vrss2G
EDIT: A sample session:
http://pastebin.com/BTZmzeGD
hiragana.txt
http://pastebin.com/v3vrss2G
EDIT: A sample session:
oren-laptop% ./practice.rb hiragana.txt 5 れ re ok re め me ok me な na ok na お o ok o れ re ok re hiragana.txt 5: 5/5 = 100.0% oren-laptop% |
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Unlike English alphabet, a lot of other Asian or even Middle East languages have lot's and lot's of characters that cover a very wide spectrum. Unicode was created to handle such issues.
To me just Simplified and Traditional Chinese language characters alone is a lot to learn. I am very very very grateful programming languages uses English :P
Even Ruby creator (a Japanese) did not mandate the programmers to code in Japanese for Ruby hahahaha....
I haven't even count each individual country local dialect language yet! It is like in US certain states has their own local state English slang. Add them all up and the Earth is bursting with languages. And once again English came to the rescue. English is a common medium to allow different ppl from different countries to communicate.
Now is English language invented by the English? :P
To me just Simplified and Traditional Chinese language characters alone is a lot to learn. I am very very very grateful programming languages uses English :P
Even Ruby creator (a Japanese) did not mandate the programmers to code in Japanese for Ruby hahahaha....
I haven't even count each individual country local dialect language yet! It is like in US certain states has their own local state English slang. Add them all up and the Earth is bursting with languages. And once again English came to the rescue. English is a common medium to allow different ppl from different countries to communicate.
Now is English language invented by the English? :P
So I need a Ruby interpreter right? Oh I'll do that later.
@sohguanh
You know here in the philippines, there are a lot of dialects. I only speak the official language but can understand two dialects, others are just plain gibberish to me.
Do you mean there only a few words in Japanese language?
@sohguanh
You know here in the philippines, there are a lot of dialects. I only speak the official language but can understand two dialects, others are just plain gibberish to me.
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| "You mean the English language has hundreds of thousands of words!? How do they memorize them all?" (in Japanese, of course) |
| Now is English language invented by the English? :P |
Not anymore. English is a worldwide language, and its word come from many languages, like Arabic (alkali, sugar), Russian (cosmodrome, gulag, sable), and Italian (cafe, latte, mocha). Most of its vocabulary is either French or West Germanic, but it takes words from any language.
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