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Wazuki Joined: Aug 08, 2004 Posts: 280 PM |
Well first you should google for there two things hiragana and katakana. These are japanese alphabetes. Wonder y 2 of them? Well hiragana is used for normal japanese words and grammatics. Katakana is used to write down foreign words which can sound as if they were not. For example word pen in japanese would be pen and taxi would be takushi. (if you dont want to be laughet at by japanese say sound "shi" more sounding like "si". Well your homework is to learn these alpabets by heart.(what a pain?). Then we can continue with grammatic basics
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haynesycop Joined: Mar 10, 2004 Posts: > 500 PM |
sounds complicated im not sure i am clever enough for this
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Wazuki Joined: Aug 08, 2004 Posts: 280 PM |
Coppy, its not hard but you have to study aLot
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axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW
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mmmm....right ok?
Can we start with the basics wazuki....like alaphabets and numbers.
try and make it as easy and simple as possible for us to learn.
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Wazuki Joined: Aug 08, 2004 Posts: 280 PM |
I said google for katakana and hiragana. They are alphabetes. Numbers are 1-ichi 2-ni 3-san 4-yon 5-go 6-roku 7-nana 8-hachi 9-kyu 10- jyu.
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axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW
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Right ok cheers!
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Wazuki Joined: Aug 08, 2004 Posts: 280 PM |
The best way to learn letters is to write down about of 20-30 of each and pronounce them each time. When you finished telme- ill continue. Now im goin sleep- 1am already.
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axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW
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ok master wazuki ..thanks for the private lesson...good night!
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EastCoastStar Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: orlando fl US PM |
are you gonna learn to read and write, or only speak??
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axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW
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Preferbly a bit of both.....would make it easier to understand the language better.
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EastCoastStar Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: orlando fl US PM |
very cool. i will follow along with this thread to learn a little bit also
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nickorooster Joined: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: UK (Originally NZ) PM |
I've got a set of "Lets Learn Hiriganana" Cards, as well as their Katakana equivalents, but I can't find them . They are just easy ways to remember the characters, like "Ka" is "Ka going off a cliff" and "Su" is "Soon It will be spring" and "He" is an arrow pointing to "Heaven" (looks a bit like "^" )
Nick
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haynesycop Joined: Mar 10, 2004 Posts: > 500 PM |
try and dig them out and post some pics they would come in very helpful
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goldenface Joined: Dec 17, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Liverpool City Centre PM |
I can already speak some Japanese and have learnt about 75% of the alphabet. I can count in Japanese no problem. The hardest thing for me to do was to find someone to practice with.
I have a Japanese penpal (email pal) to help me which is handy.
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amnesia Joined: Jan 15, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Doha, London, Tokyo, Shanghai PM, WWW
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when I started learning Japanese, the first sentence I memorized was
Anata wa totemo Kawaii desu.
(had to say it a million times to my girlfriend )
Most common sentence I use now is
Hara he ta
(i'm very hungry)
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