Comments on: Japanese Learning

By: Hiyuu

Hiyuu — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:21:26 +0000

Oh so i’m not the only one who chanced upon WWWJDC and found it to be the best online Japanese dictionary ever!

Hmm I have the same reasons to learn Japanese and took lessons when I was much younger, but had this non-Japculture period in my life which caused me to forget alot of it but I’ve been trying to pick it up and take JLPT4 asap :D

Problem is, because I’m learning at my own pace, I probably know phrases and whatnots beyond JLPT4, yet i don’t know some of the basics that may be required in JLPT4. You got a website for the “syllabus” of JLPT4?

By: windbell

windbell — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:54:28 +0000

@nckl: That’s true. My japanese improved quite a bit when I was in Japan on holday last Sept ^^;

@Caitlin: No worries. Will try joining a japanese online community.

@Zeroblade: Chatting in Japanese builds up the speaking ability and also overall confidence. I can’t say I have a lot in both ORZ

@ron~: Will check it out. Thanks!

@double: You should have intro-ed it to me way earlier!

@Sylon Beta: I suppose that is true as well. But I still can’t understand why there’s a mixture of traditional and simplified kanji. 飛行機（ひこうき）- Plane in Japanese is hard to remember due to the number of strokes, but in a way it’s kinda fun ^^;

@don777: Thank you! Will love to be able to converse fluently with you in Japanese in the future!

@eksxeltion: That’s nice. We didn’t get any chance to do a homestay at a Japanese family. How was the homestay like?

@jonhohx: Okay, will look for it.

@Derf Shaya: Wow. Pretty weird and cool at the same time.

@Soshi: Lol! Me too!

By: Soshi

Soshi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:43:20 +0000

Hurray for Rikaichan! I don’t need to switch between windows and tabs so frantically when I translate things now!

By: Derf Shaya

Derf Shaya — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:21 +0000

Not sure if it is related, but some of the Japanese accidentally learn foreign languages after watching joke videos that misintepret speeches of those languages in Japanese.

I wonder if English speakers do the same for Japanese speeches/songs. Probably not, according to cultural reasons(ry

By: jonhohx

jonhohx — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:06:54 +0000

sorry, a bit off subject but there’s no mic on the i-pod touch but u can buy a 3rd party mic. usd29 i think.

i got the voip instruction off youtube.

By: eksxeltion

eksxeltion — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:37:17 +0000

Thanks a lot for Rikaichan! didn’t know about that but i’m already using it regularly, it’s just so useful!!

Back to the topic, I started learning Japanese at high school, and the course ended with a trip to Japan where we got to stay with a genuine Japanese family for about a week.. so I can tell that you can really improve yourself when you’re faced 24/7 with the culture!
of course.. it’s not like we could just go and barge into other people’s home anytime..^^

By: don777

don777 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:44:08 +0000

I respect for all keeping study Japanese continuasly.
(Japanese is a demonic language(^^;, It’s extremely hard to study…)

Some days ago, Fujitsu[japanese IT giant] released “hiragana navi” free software. It seems to be a good product for japanese novice.
Please check it up..

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0803/10/news099.html
http://jp.fujitsu.com/group/flm/eco/hiranavi/

By: Sylon Beta

Sylon Beta — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:31:09 +0000

Actually, contrary to the fact that learning Chinese doesn’t help much, I have found that it helped me a lot. Of course, note that I nearly failed it and stopped learning it at 12 years of age.

Basically, it sets the mindset to learn Kanji. I was reading a bunch of articles, and I found one on learning the Japanese language and how the author couldn’t come to terms with the fact that 金 had 8 strokes, being used to English all her life. So, I think, the fact that learning a bit of Chinese might have helped one to accept the fact that kanji do, in fact, have a relatively high number of strokes, should be taken into account.

Also, thanks for the link to Rikaichan.

By: Setsuna-san

Setsuna-san — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:13:51 +0000

thanks for the tutorial. will be pushing harder to improve my Japanese.(hopefully)

By: double

double — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:34:18 +0000

We all have our reasons to learn Japanese, which is good. Learning a new language is always good.

Currently, besides all the otaku stuff and my dream to someday study in a Japanese University and later on work in Japan, I have temporary motivation which pushes me to strive much harder in learning Japanese so that I can hold a decent conversation.

That motivation would probably last till September this year, where it’ll either continue existing and become a reason, or just disappear if my job attachment and other crappy responsibilities clash with my holidays. If it disappears, I’ll just have to fall back on to the other 2 reasons. But either way, I’ll still be fueling my passion for Japanese.

On a final note, Rikaichan is the WIN!!! I use it to aid me in my very own personal karaoke sessions ^^