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dankles:
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--- 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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Another thing I do is this:
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com
But yeah, the videos are great too. They don't teach everything, but hey, they are free and professionally made. Plus they come from my home town of Atlanta ;D
heavyoak:
--- Quote from: DropDeadEd on July 27, 2007, 06:48:42 PM ---Genki Textbooks - Excellent University resources for japanese study.
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I got those books too, but my came from my college class, Japanese 1.
Zayras:
--- Quote from: kyoterry on July 26, 2007, 01:00:25 PM ---First off, how did you guys learn Japanese..(for those who speak it)?
Currently, I am using Rosetta Stone software, but what i don't like about it, is the fact that it doesn't tell you what the sentence in english is...
but the good thing is that it helps you remember words a lot quicker..
what software did you guys use, and how long did it take you before you could understand a little bit of anime without the subtitles?
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Rosetta Stone works really well along with a class... but so far-from what I've seen-it's crappy. It only teaches you the polite version of the japanese language (i.e. the masu/teimasu/desu/deshita...etc. which is okay, but most japanese talk with the "plain/normal version" of japanese which is actually harder to conjugate (lols), makes a lot less use of the particles and yeah... in short it's more common and you're able to say things-generally speaking-faster
RS is still good though as it contains a ton of vocab and teaches you the grammar.
Anyways, my two cents for other learning sites and I'll make sure to check some of the ones here out:
Awesome Verb Conjugator
About.com - Japanese has a ton of info on grammar, useful phrases, etc., etc., etc.
Don't know a Kanji? Convert it to Hiragana, plus even has an option to give you a definition for the kanji(s)
Tatsujin:
...... How come they don't pronounce つ in most of their sentences?
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on July 15, 2009, 10:42:16 PM ---...... How come they don't pronounce つ in most of their sentences?
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What do you mean? Tsu is one of the few that does get pronounced most of the time despite having a 'u' in it. Like the difference between tsuki (moon pronounced "dsu-kee") and suki (''like'' pronounced 'ski'). A samll tsu in writing, 'ちょっと’ like in Chotto doesn't get pronounced but stands in place as a stop/break or more technically meaning to pronounce the next syllable twice as long. When you convert the small tsu over to ramaji, it becomes a double letter. chotto - ちょっと meaning wait, pronounced as 'Cho-to' with a slight pause before the 't'. You will see the small tsu A LOT in Japanese manga because they use it to show how a character is speaking a sentence (like when they are starting a new sentence, when they are ending a sound effect, and whether to end the word/sentence abruptly or not.)
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