btw 1st thing; congratz on winning a study trip 2 nihon! oh, i just curious, are you gonna study degree/masters PhD there?

i admire your ability to able to know when to use hiragana, katakana & kanji at different times, but how long you think a person need to practice 2 be able know the meaning of hiragana??

that's because i can memorise & write some hiragana, but don't know the meaning, unlike kanji where at least I can guess it's meaning because i got formal primary Chinese education..

thanks in advance

err guys, can anyone help in guiding me in some particles in hiragana. My main concern is regarding the は(ha) particle. Because sometimes it's pronounced as (ha) and sometimes or frequently it'll be pronounced as (wa) when it's used as a topic marker particle right?? unsure.gif

Okay, for eg;

おかあさんははなをすきです。(Mother likes flower)

1)In the above case, the は is not pronounced as ha, but (wa) because it acts as a marker for the topic おかあさん, rite?? But, what if a person's name is, say, for eg; Hayako(はやこ), then if it's written like that then wouldn't it be read as "Wayako" instead?? When should it be read as "ha" and "wa" for は?

2) Based on the sentence above, is it okay if i were to simply write any sentence based on the model above, which is Subject-Object-Verb?? Like, if in English, it's He reads book, but in japanese it is "He book reads".. Is it alright??

3) Also, I've got a slightly long term route in self studying and learning Japanese, but I'd wanna know what is the best possible route since for now, I only know how to read hiragana, but don't understand it. Should I:

A) learn Katakana -> learn Kanji -> learn vocabulary -> learn how to form sentence
B) learn vocabulary of Hiragana-> learn Katakana -> Kanji -> forming complete sentence
C) learn vocabulary and also forming sentence in Hiragana -> Katakana -> Kanji

Which would be the best possible route so I'm able to quickly learn Japanese as a beginner? I'm at a loss lol

が, but why not を?? isn't を is used as object marking particles, especially when in this case the object is はな, regardless of whether it's an act of liking or not?

btw, can you tell me where/which website that you gain access to in order to learn japanese?? i wanna learn japanese as my long term activity

thank you soo much 4 the links, really appreciate it

got e-book version also meh???? walauweh I'm so late into the game

btw how did you learn for kanji ? most online resources point towards WaniKani being a reliable kanji online website for learning kanji, have you tried it before?

wah, so pro

thanks for the link, insightful indeed

lol, i'm the oppossite, hiragana is the easiest for me, and one of the reason i despise katakana is due to the huge similarities between katakana word so(ソ) and n(ン), and shi(シ) and tsu(ツ), well, actually i already got no issue with ツ and シ but ソ and ン really ticks me off lol. oh yeah and thanks for giving me tips on how to progressively learn basics sentence structures

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P/S: guys, i wanna ask you 3 this question(since you all know more than me about delving into japanese language studies), but the thing is, how you able to consistently study over a long period of time? in other words, what motivates you to keep on learning japanese language?

my concurrent problem is that i reckon i lack tangible rewards/motivations/goals to be able to keep me pushing my japanese language in the long run.. i never have a japanese friends, i do watch a little bit of J-drama but i think i need more than that in order to push me to learn japanese language, i never been to japan before etc... i realise that if i lack concrete aims or goals to motivate me in learning japanese, i will lack motivation to keep my drive going lol, so yeah it'd be great if any of you can shed some info revolving this matter

thanks for the advice

i think learning Japanese for me is something like a soul-searching journey... haven't had any single concrete answer to it, it just clicked. it started off as a mild hobby and now with significant time and effort invested into it, I'd like to see how far can i go in the long run..

speaking of language learning sites, is taking JLPT test worth it? those who've taken it sometimes say that since it's mostly textbook-based, it's ways of getting people to study Japanese seemed too "dry" and mundane...