Hi guys,

New to learning japanese here. However just to get things rolling a little, how long should we actually wait from the first day of a Japanese class to learn Hiragana and Katagana. I've actually gone thru Hiragana before my classes and successfully remembered it almost 99% of the time. But now that I plan to do Katagana, i'm almost mixing up both writing systems.

Do enlighten me, how far apart should the learning of both writing systems be? When do I start learning Kanji? It pisses me off when I see a Japanese noodle package in a store near my house and I can only read a few letters and not the whole thing Anyway, will work my best and start speaking here often!

Thanks 111. Anyway, I'm wondering...what do you do in Japan? Do you live there? Takes so much effort to browse each forum page and read all the previous posts. I plan to move to Japan as well, and I know sometimes it sounds a little childish and all. But i'm already a working person and have been in love with the culture since i was young. Anyway I'll continue my noodle deciphering project now. Off to a sundry shop now.

I'm actually more of an academic. I'm planning to do my masters there, but I don't know if they teach in Japanese or English. Have to find out. So yeah probably after that I should be living there or something. But first have to try to get myself studying there.

Anyway how long do you think should one wait before starting the next writing system? lets say from Hiragana to Katagana?

Hey guys,

Quick question:

わたしはとうきょうへいきます and わたしがいくとうきょう

The 2 sentences has the same meaning, significance and politeness right?

As far as I know its something like active and passive sentences.

Sorry for my bad Japanese (if any). Still beginner

Yeah I mean its not actually active and passive sentences. Just a case in example. So the 2 sentences have no difference in meaning yeah? Any experts care to help me verify

This post has been edited by magic-addict: Nov 11 2008, 07:11 PM

OK what about

わたしはえいがをみました。 and わたしがみたえいが

Does this 2 have any difference in meaning?

Any lowyatians doing JLPT this Sunday? Good luck everyone!

Haha, indeed kanji is very difficult. More so for people like me who has no chinese script writing knowledge.

Another example of disparity in kanji scripts are like:

金曜日 - kinyoubi (friday)
お金 - okane (money)

Same writing, totally different ways to pronounce it.

Oh well, thats the joy of learning. If everything is simple then there is no point learning it hehe

This post has been edited by magic-addict: Dec 5 2008, 10:09 AM