[Yggy]

I have taken 4 Japanese courses in the school I used to be in High School. They were pretty basic, but the latest one I took was a bit more complex.
In my opinion, Japanese grammar is pretty easy. I learn and remember most of the vocabulary from what I hear in anime.
The commonly difficult part in learning Japanese is the kanji. ;| I can write in hiragana and katakana just fine, but ugh kanji..
I know several, but it's easy to forget.

I tried online lessons but I did not like them.
A friend who knows a lot of Japanese gave me copies of a book to learn. Kinda basic but, it's still a challenge for a 'beginner'.

Oh, and I'm fluent at writing and speaking but, slow at reading.

Originally Posted by zeramoth

why would one learn japanese anyway?

Haha, sounds like the American stereotype I once read some time ago.
"The world has to learn our language, but we don't have to learn theirs!"
BS. ;D

Originally Posted by sarabjeet

I am learning japanese just gave my JLPT although i am not very hopefull about the scores, but i think i did well listening section thanks to fansubbing groups to increase my vocab and seiyū for the voice (i lost myself now)...

anyways i am planning to enroll for lvl3 now... short on cash... will do it in about a month or two...

Oh, Lord. o_o You already passed level 4 ?! (Even though it's beginner. XD) I took a test like the JLPT, but all levels combined. It was so hard and I failed horribly. :/
You take Japanese classes, I suppose?

[Fatentity]

I'm currently taking Elementary Japanese at my college, and getting a near perfect A (But it's just the basics, so, lol). If you are motivated and pay attention in the begging especially, it is not that hard. I found it actually some-what easy. So long as you learn to read Hiragana pretty well and as the person above me said learn the grammar/sentence structure, then your off to a good start.

Then again I really like the book I have, and our teacher rocks, so that may play a part in learning it well. I think most of it though is having good material with great explanations and examples as well as just simply the drive to learn. Because I really don't put in more than 3 hours a week (Though I'm sure that will change the higher the level I get).

[Kyotachi]

Originally Posted by zeramoth

why would one learn japanese anyway?

yeah like why exactly something like "Japanese"
everybody lately does that

Originally Posted by Yggy

Haha, sounds like the American stereotype I once read some time ago.
"The world has to learn our language, but we don't have to learn theirs!"
BS. ;D

Oh I thought the British - England spread English all over the world lol

[sarabjeet]

Originally Posted by Yggy

Oh, Lord. o_o You already passed level 4 ?! (Even though it's beginner. XD) I took a test like the JLPT, but all levels combined. It was so hard and I failed horribly. :/
You take Japanese classes, I suppose?

Yes i take japanese classes
and can read some kanji's not all still slow in reading and pathetic at katakana.

Gambari masu..

[yonku_shankz]

To me learning Japanese will be easy,its similar to Arabic(e.g forming a sentence) which i am familiar with in a few months when i will have the option of taking it in my second year of university .

[vega427]

I took a couple of conversation classes and an elementary Japanese class at the local community college. I've not taken the next class, because learning kanji was really starting to kick my ass. I was getting the hang of it, but it was taking me longer than the rest of the class. Luckily it ended before I got too far behind(still managed to get a 3.5 somehow....). At some point I'd like to continue if I can. I'm just so loaded down with other classes, I don't know when it'd happen

[krntomtom]

i was born in korea, and so, japanese, being very similar to the south korean language, is easy to understand; some words are the same, and the sentence structure is near identical. xD

[evereternal7]

Originally Posted by krntomtom

i was born in korea, and so, japanese, being very similar to the south korean language, is easy to understand; some words are the same, and the sentence structure is near identical. xD

Lucky you I'm a little jealous
Wonder if there are japanese people on this forum?
For the japanese language programs I think Rocket Japanese is better than Rosetta Stone. Too bad it is near impossible to get a crack for it

[cotsiost]

i would really like to learn japanese but i dont think i have the chance now, maybe after a few years when i go to university i might be able to learn

[mono chrome]

oh im using my japanese coach from the ds, it acually really good