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neverthecat:
well me being a poor person I have to find resources in books at the library( when I have the time) and some half-assed confusing online resources. One thing I've realised about japanese and the reason it is so difficult to learn is that its a very permeable language and the words can be used in many different ways. not to mention the sentence structure is different than english (subject object verb instead of subject verb object) so can anyone direct me to a well versed, not so confusing, free resource for learning japanese?
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: neverthecat on May 12, 2009, 02:22:18 PM ---well me being a poor person I have to find resources in books at the library( when I have the time) and some half-assed confusing online resources. One thing I've realised about japanese and the reason it is so difficult to learn is that its a very permeable language and the words can be used in many different ways. not to mention the sentence structure is different than english (subject object verb instead of subject verb object) so can anyone direct me to a well versed, not so confusing, free resource for learning japanese?
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Your not really going to find amazing resources to 'learn' Japanese online, but there are a ton of websites that will 'help' in your Japanese learning.
jisho.org - best J-E E-J Dictionary I have found with a database on Kanji and an easy kanji look up chart.
smart.fm - A lot of user made flash cards from just about any Japanese learning books you can think of as well as games and laerning systems. You can use this as a standalone, but it works better if you own the book.
lang8 - write journal entries in your language of study and native speakers will come by and correct it and comment. (for advanced students).
Wikipedia of course has the entire list of Joyou kanji and more that you can always use for resource or throw into flash cards.
Just google some RAW manga sites if you are looking to read in Japanese. Some even have the Furigana which can help in learning.
As much as I'm sure you hate to hear this, just watching anime in Japanese with subs really isn't going to help you unless you already know some decent Japanese and can watch without subs to help your listening skills. These are just a few websites that I find pretty helpful.
neverthecat:
--- Quote from: anerph on May 12, 2009, 03:07:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: neverthecat on May 12, 2009, 02:22:18 PM ---well me being a poor person I have to find resources in books at the library( when I have the time) and some half-assed confusing online resources. One thing I've realised about japanese and the reason it is so difficult to learn is that its a very permeable language and the words can be used in many different ways. not to mention the sentence structure is different than english (subject object verb instead of subject verb object) so can anyone direct me to a well versed, not so confusing, free resource for learning japanese?
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Your not really going to find amazing resources to 'learn' Japanese online, but there are a ton of websites that will 'help' in your Japanese learning.
jisho.org - best J-E E-J Dictionary I have found with a database on Kanji and an easy kanji look up chart.
smart.fm - A lot of user made flash cards from just about any Japanese learning books you can think of as well as games and laerning systems. You can use this as a standalone, but it works better if you own the book.
lang8 - write journal entries in your language of study and native speakers will come by and correct it and comment. (for advanced students).
Wikipedia of course has the entire list of Joyou kanji and more that you can always use for resource or throw into flash cards.
Just google some RAW manga sites if you are looking to read in Japanese. Some even have the Furigana which can help in learning.
As much as I'm sure you hate to hear this, just watching anime in Japanese with subs really isn't going to help you unless you already know some decent Japanese and can watch without subs to help your listening skills. These are just a few websites that I find pretty helpful.
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well thank you very much ^^ and yes I know learning the language from an anime is not the most intelligent thing to do. I mean thinking from a logical stand point most anime being a form of entertainment wouldn't use proper proper japanese (which in my opinion you should learn before slang) they prefer slang. also due to the fact that japanese is so quick and often words are used for many reasons so you cant be sure the word you hear is the right word. *learning from anime subs fails* well I'm ranting now (because I'm tired of people telling me to watch anime to learn more japanese D:<) thank you again.
ilk3000:
That's very true. I've been watching anime for a decade and I never picked up anything except for exclamations and short phrases I looked up later until I started learning Japanese.
moonlight:
--- Quote from: ilk3000 on May 21, 2009, 05:04:38 PM ---That's very true. I've been watching anime for a decade and I never picked up anything except for exclamations and short phrases I looked up later until I started learning Japanese.
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Watching anime really does help in learning Japanese. You'll notice it when you start learning vocabulary, like half of the words you know already somehow ~_^
Right now I'm following a really fast Japanese course at Komaba Campus, sadly enough I won't be in Japan long enough to complete the course... ...
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