How well do you speak Japanese? Page 3

Started by MyFirstLvl100 August 14th, 2007 4:59 PM
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I dont think that i need to know anything except Kanji because its the most written in japan.

If i went to a restarsunt, i could probably be able to order a couple of things and talk about the weather with the waiter. If i understand him, i leave a tip, if i dont, i drop a penny.
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Posted March 27th, 2012
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After a year of watching sheer amounts of anime (and listen to Japanese music) I started to pick up some common phases and decided to learn a bit more online. Then after 6 months I brought a phrase book and learnt the basic such as numbers, sentence structure and 'some' hiragana/katakana etc. I know fair amount of kanji from Chinese classes, just not how to pronounce them in Japanese lol (and yes I know some meaning are different but they ain't too off). Now watching anime I tend to pick up new words easily but then again I really should just go to a class >_>.

Question though. What sort of things do you learn in the first year beginners classes? Cause I may have to skip it if it's too basic. Don't want them teaching me the numbers etc again >_>.

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Not much. Greetings, common phrases, counting, and some swear words that I picked up from Naruto >>
Lol I learned a lot from watching Naruto too. XD
Well my friend was trying to teach me how to say Japanese pokemon names over voice chat but I don't know too many words. A few greetings and common stuff. I could read it sometimes, but never speak it right. I'm more of a visual learner. Must get Japanese characters displaying on this computer. :x

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Question though. What sort of things do you learn in the first year beginners classes? Cause I may have to skip it if it's too basic. Don't want them teaching me the numbers etc again >_>.
*grabs her textbook* We learnt hiragana, katakana, basic greetings, kore/sore/are/dore (etc), basic verb conjugation (~masu form), particles, sentence formation, "describing where things are", adjectives, ~te form verbs, ~teiru form verbs, short forms, past tense short form, and I think comparison.

I just copied out some of the table of contents. You might not get that far though... it depends on the Japanese class and the textbook you use, I guess. o.o


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I used to take classes, but that was a year ago. After that, and watching anime, I know a few words. I also know how to introduce myself with my name and all. I'd type it, but I highly doubt I can spell it right.

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i know a few words and the numbers up to about 50 maybe a hundred haven't tried to count that high in jap.

Looking for lessons but I can't find any near me. Bloody south west england being useless.

So i'm stuck listening to the japanesepod101 podcasts trying to learn from that and my book which is useless at explaining anything to do with kanji.



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Oss (japanese) um i do goshin kan do karate so i know alot cause i have to teach karate to other people when they are new and stuff i know alot like : unogushimus,tencho,saifa,gogeki,yoi and i know lots more
sorry for the misspelt word's im not sure how there spelt
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Posted July 9th, 2009
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...Not very well. xD; I have three books that I use to study the language, but I haven't had enough time to really focus on them, so I still have a lot to learn. I plan to just go at it at my own pace, and do it for fun rather than force myself. At the moment, I do know a lot of basic stuff like greetings, numbers, and colors, as well as some random words that my Japanese pen-pal teaches me in her letters. (I studied like crazy before she came to visit me, especially the words that I needed to call my family members so she'd understand who they were, and I still remember a few things. :3) I'll get the hang of it eventually!

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T-T I want to take a class so bad, but my school doesn't have it. >.< Although I've been watching RAWs since 7th grade (is in 11th now) so I can somewhat understand what's going on..
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Same as above. Though even if I did remember it, my teacher said that what we learned was the equivalent of Kindergarten level, so that wouldn't help much. XD I can remember Hiragana and some Katakana, but I just plain suck at Kanji.

My sister and I find it better to just learn slowly from anime and Japanese song lyrics and such. Though it seems she knows more common speak, while I know more random words...I'll get there, eventually. -.- (Stupid college doesn't offer Japanese courses.)
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i dunno how to speak jap. if i did tht b awsome!
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いいですね。i think i just figured out how to use Japanese in VB!!
but can people w/o a Japanese language pack see it?
Do the squares of evil replace the characters?

If there's anyone that can't see the characters, let me know i might have to retool the input settings on the Language bar.
どもありがと。

ぱちりす が すきです。
とても かわいいですね。
マジデ (hey, it even does katakana)
whatever, if i spell it wrong, its cuz im tired.
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本当にかっこいいですが…

This thread is over a month old, so this counts as thread revival. I have to close this. ^^;

Haha, I'm so smart. I forgot to close it. :| Now it's closed though. *a day later*


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I know lots of random words and phrases, prolly enough to survive.
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