Wahlauwei, so many characters.... btw can anyone tell me what did my friend try to tell me when she said "hait gozaimasu kuro sabagakure sabato"?

This post has been edited by Rin: Dec 3 2010, 09:28 PM

you've been trolled by your friend. Or you just don't get what the hell he/she said.

Ugh... N3 was quite hard...

I'm actually curious to know from people who has studied both Chinese and Japanese... Which do you find to be harder?

Japanese for me, because I've learnt mandarin since small, it is probably hard, but we don't find it all that hard cuz we're used to it.

Got to ask those that learns it when they're adults.

I haven't been contributing here lately as I've just started school again after sometime and things and setting up me 'life' again has been hectic. I'm actually going to take a Japanese exam in an hour.

Well what I want to say is you can study Japanese yourself from book if you're determined. It doesn't take alot of effort, I didn't study like 1 hour everyday or anything like that, I just stuck to it. I didn't even watch that much anime or dramas either. I'm not very good at languages, my mom speaks Chinese and till today I still can't speak it. My dad speaks Tamil and I don't know a word. But I've managed to teach myself an equivalent of 2 years worth of college Japanese, which is about a little more than JLPT N3 I think. When I first started college I had enough vocab to hold small talk with my Japanese lecturers over lunch. So, if you're not staying near a language school, or you don't have access to any Japanese friends, just pick one of those learn Japanese in XXX days and get started. Make the first step!

いらっしゃいませ！

This post has been edited by This is a Lamp: Jan 6 2011, 02:28 PM

I'm new here.Is it hard to learn japanese?
how long does it takes until i can read japanese text?

thanks!

depends on you efforts and environment

i was able to reached high school (well, almost) level in 2years thanks to the prep school
achieved level 3 JPLT after 7months of studying

I did one semester, and it was already enough.

I want to learn reading japanese...hiragana isn't a problem for me, but kanji character are really confusing. Any easier way to learn it......?

Thank you all..
I've learn much in this..

the problem can I save this whole topics (77 pages) ??
I'm using 'print page' it only display 1-15 pgs only,
I'm using cc and need to read at home... for now i'm saving 1 pg at a time..

any solution??

This post has been edited by malaysianidol: Feb 13 2011, 11:30 AM

I have seen imbalanced example of a person passing jlpt level 4 after studying for 1month, starting from zero.
That person is currently in Japan and married a japanese

So there more interested you are, the faster it will be. L)

true , kanji is hard bcoz of many strokes and different pronounciation with diff combination with other words.. ><! but well , i myslf took N2 last year december and i found out bside reading , u shld know the on-yomi and kun-yomi too , tat makes life easier imo ^^ all the best thou !

This post has been edited by JunLing31: Feb 15 2011, 12:14 PM

I learned kanji from scratch with James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. This method teaches you the just meaning of the kanji without the readings. It shows you how complex kanji can be broken down into simple radicals. I learned more than 2000 kanji with this method and can remember more than 1500 kanji by heart (I'm not chinese btw)

This method has as many critics and admirers, so try it out for yourself and find out if it works for you or not.

If you already know the meaning of the kanji and would like to know the readings, just get yourself a good kanji dictionary like Kodansha's Kanji Learner's Dictionary or the 2001 Kanji Odyssey series. Both of them available at Kino


You can easily learn hiragana and katakana in 1 week. By then you can already read simple children's story books

This post has been edited by airiholic: Feb 17 2011, 01:37 AM

Kanji is the most interesting aspect of Japanese.

Foreigners are the ones who complain about it the most because it's not alphabetic. Alphabets are easy, although hiragana and katakana are not really alphabets they are close enough to be easy to those used to alphabetic languages. Kanji requires lots of memorisation and work and I find joy in learning it. Helps me in skimming through sentences too. Pity that the Koreans do not see Chinese characters the same way the Japanese do.

Anybody here can help me to translate my chinese name in Romaji?
My name is 黃家輝
Thanks

In canto: Wong Kar Fai?
If so: ウオン　カー　ファイ (uon kaa fai)

In mandarin: Hwang jia huei?
If so:　フアン　ジャ　フイ (huan jya hui)

In hokkien: Ooi keh hui?
If so: ウーイ　ケー　フイ (uui kee hui)

Hi all,
Just wanna share with u guys something.. Wanna read japanese? Here u go..
http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/2010/0...-by-step-guide/
This guide is made especially for those who want to read visual novel.. if you are not a fan of visual novel, u can also learn..

some of u might say, wtf!!? 2 years!!?
Yeah, 2 years so what? Even at high school i learn Arab for 5 years, imma still weak at that language
learning new language take times..

Hi, i have some question hope someone can explain :
1) Are there any rule when the second word attached to made a new word the pronuntiation add the extra "
example :　説 originally pronouce as せつ but some time when it combine to become new word the pronuntiation change to ぜつ, do we have to memorize it for each combination or they are ONLY certain condition/rule it add extra "
小説（しょうせつ）
演説（えんぜつ）

2) For く, how come sometimes the "ku" voice is read as "k" only
example :
学生（がくせい, i think japanese spell it as "gaksei" instead of "gakusei"）

3) Do we need to memorise/understand the Kanji reading of ON reading and Kun Reading?
Currently i just memorise the JLPT/N vocab reading, not really sure do we need to care on the those ON reading and Kun Reading

This post has been edited by popcorn513: Feb 25 2011, 11:11 AM