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Learning Japanese
zorena86:
--- Quote from: dankles on June 08, 2009, 01:20:58 PM ---I'm trying to do some of what this guy says combined with my knowledge from learning spanish.
Once I can read and write, my learning experience will go much faster and easier. My long term goal is to be (somewhat) fluent in under 18 months.
If only I lived in japan, then my learning would go sooo much faster.
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Wow! That's definitely useful! I will be working with that this summer til JPN3 starts and be ahead of the class big time. Yea knowing multiple languages really helps when learning another because you tend to incorporate many of the rules with similar concepts.
I started JPN1 with a friend of mine who only speaks English (I'm naturally bilingual with Spanish) and he complains to me all the time that it's easier for me to learn the concepts of Japanese because I was raised knowing 2 languages as opposed to him. In the beginning I just took his excuses as just that, but now I see that it can be truth rather then just lame excuses to cover his laziness (though he was pretty lazy...)
dankles:
Hehe! Yeah, learning a language is mostly just willpower. So lazy people tend to have a hard time. In fact, I wasn't able to learn Spanish at all when I took some classes in high school because I was very lazy. It wasn't until I moved to Honduras that I was finally able to learn it.
zorena86:
Haha! Wish I could've been lazy in high school... but being home schooled with moms as the teacher, that wasn't happening... :(
Can't wait to get home tonight (on campus in comp lab now ::)) and try out that Slime Forest, looks interesting and fun.
dankles:
--- Quote from: zorena86 on June 08, 2009, 01:47:59 PM ---Haha! Wish I could've been lazy in high school... but being home schooled with moms as the teacher, that wasn't happening... :(
Can't wait to get home tonight (on campus in comp lab now ::)) and try out that Slime Forest, looks interesting and fun.
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I like it because it tests you on kanji that look very similar. That way you can really understand the difference.
Also, its free(as in libre, not gratis) software, which is another thing I like.
virionspiral:
--- Quote from: dankles on June 01, 2009, 08:39:00 PM ---A free gift from my home town:
GPB Education (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
Japanese I: http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/term/japaneseI
Japanese II: http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/term/japaneseII
156 videos * ~20 Mins each = 52 hours of free video
They are wmv's so you have to forgive that, plus it was done in the 90's so it can be a little cheesy sometimes, however it's still a huge free resource.
Anyways, another thing that helps me is to use post-it notes with the japanese names of objects then stick them to the corresponding objects in my house. It's a great way to visually remember things.
Note to linux users:
(click to show/hide)The mms streams don't play very well with mplayer, so you might wanna use xine instead.
--- Quote from: Semnae on July 26, 2007, 11:24:04 PM --- Slime Forest for reading Japanese ;D
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Whoa! It's actually working for me! nice!
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i've been watching those irasshai episodes. they work really well, it is corny though. now i can write all the hiragana and i'm recognizing a lot while watching japanese movies and anime.
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