Learning Japanese.. A little help? :P
 

Not sure if this topic can go here. Sorry ~.~;;;
And I kind of scanned to look for a topic like this but I didn't spot it. Sorry if its a repeat. Please point this thread in the right direction if needed...

I'm taking a Japanese class at the community college. I've never studied it before, but I did attempt to try and teach myself, which ended up with a huge failure even after spending a bunch of money on audio and books.

Now I'm taking a class and I feel like I'm far behind everybody else. I can't make it to tutoring when the Japanese tutors are there (because of work and school schedule). Now I wonder if anybody is willing to help me out? Maybe some other people would like to join and learn a bit and get some help with their Japanese too?

I think it would be nice for some people to help out and use Japanese for conversations. Practicing with somebody else would help me out.

Arigatou Gozaimasu

Sorry. I'm still learning myself. I have games to teach me for my ds and computer. but I'd be glad to help you if you want it.

Oh that's cool! What games are they? :D I have a DS so I would be interested in that.

Right now I'm working on some Japanese homework. And I'm kind of stuck...

It's just a learn Japanese game. I don't have it with me right now, but I can give you
the title later. But it's really fun and you learn everything. You just need to memorize everything you learn. Including Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, as well as sentence structure.
And the games they have to help you learn are really fun too. They have a whack-a-mole like game, memory, flashcards, and one where they build bridges when you get the sentence structure right.

there was a thread about Japanese. i bet you can find someone there to help.

I don't think I've ever ehard of rosetta stone.. What is it exactly?

And I've tried a few translation things... But its a bit different from my textbook so it confuses me.. @[email protected];;


Well you can always reply later with the title ^.^ Right now I learned most of the Hiragana and I'm having a bit of a hard time wtih sentence structure... And memorizing, remembering, and recalling vocabulary is a pain... Anyways, the games sound fun. I used to have a game I bought that was for japanese learning but I've lost it orz

Where was the thread? :sweat:

If you want to actually speak Japanese with others, make a thread in Menewsha Nation, where the hangouts are located. I'm sure there are others around who do speak Japanese and would be happy to help you practice. :D

Just remember that speaking in a foreign language is only allowed in the Menewsha Nation forum. :D

Sorry, but I'm learning chinese right now, I plan on taking Japanese next year since my college advisor said two languages my first year would be hard

watashi wa Selene Desu ka, konbowa, doushai gou?

You're lucky that your community college has Japanese. The one I'm at only offers three or four language courses. But, I have just bought a DS and I'm going to try out My Japanese Coach since I've heard its good for the basics.

Um, language programs that I would suggest are the following: the Michel Thomas Method , Pimsleur, Rosetta stone...... You can find all these at the library except for rosetta, the japanese language for michel thomas is rather new but it will make its way to the library in time! :( BUT that is a lot of money's worth of information that would have you very advanced for FREE! you do have to invest alot of time,but everything worth doing takes time!!! I wish you luck!!

i really want Rosetta Stone but it is so expensive! my pockets are deep and i have short arms. >.<
i have books that i got really cheap offline and so far they are doing good, but i haven't kept up with it so when it comes to speaking/writting japanese my brain is all mush

Thanks. I'll look at any of the ones I can find there. ^^


My college offers a bunch of others as well; German, French, Spanish, Chinese, and even ASL those are the ones I know of and I'm not sure if there are any more. I've heard of the Japanese game for DS I am going to look into that. It would be fun and helpful I think. I want to take more Japanese classes in the future too.


Rosetta Stone looks pretty nifty. But I agree with you. It's so spendy! I actually spent about 100 dollars that i saved up from my christmas money and bought a Book with CDs but it didn't help me much because I learn different =X



It's funny because I didn't even think about going to the library to find anything :P I always use the library at school but that is for research for papers :D Now I have a to do list ^.^

on You tube there are videos that teach you some basics search "genki japan" they have a whole bunch of fun songs that are catchy.

Watch movies in Japanese WITHOUT subtitles! :D It will help you get used to the language being used and will help you understand it. Also don't use Rosetta unless you are able to learn like a baby. If you are already into sentance structure or grammer Rosetta won't really help you. Pimsleur lessons are useful too, there are many CD lessons that can help you out there.
Lots of luck!

I have seen a lot of the "genki japan" videos on youtube. I like some of the songs ^^


I've watched some anime and a few movies in japanese. I'm not so sure it helps tho because I have no idea what is being said >.<;
And I've learned some sentence structure, but it's all pretty much basic. Unless I can find something like those cds online or a library or a friend, I don't think i'll use them, because i don't have any money to spend on things lol :P

There is a Japanese conversation place in Menewsha nations.

i would like to know about this too, that was actually one of the first things i looked for
oh, Alexial, did you ever go to the site i told you about?