How long should it take to learn Japanese? What should I do?
November 13, 2008 by admin · 5 Comments
I speak english and was required to take two years of spanish (which I took reluctantly) and can speak a little of that, but I was never really interested. My HS doesn't offer Japanese, and it what I am planning to go to college for, but Id like to get a jump start, so Im not clueless when I get there. How long do you think it'd take for me to learn it, and what do you think I can do to begin learning?
'hiragana' and 'katakana' are easy characters to master. my husband mastered all in less than 2 weeks.
japanese conversation… less than 2 yrs
'kanji' is different…
it takes looooooong time.
normally japanese children learn kanji for more than 12 yrs. (which means highschool degree) some 3,000 kanji characters are in common use in modern japanese, but an asahi shimbun survey says that 94% of written japanese communication is in 1,500 characters
my husband couldn't speak japanese when he came japan.
but he can speak japanese fluently now.
try this one
http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/
and make some native friend
japanese love to help people
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Learn Japanese: Mary had a little lamb in Japanese
November 5, 2008 by admin · 25 Comments
MP3 and Translation at:
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/maryhadalittlelamb.htm
Here’s a Japanese song you can learn in 10 minutes. It’s bound to impress your friends!
There are also lots of really useful Japanese phrases in there, for example:
の = no = which means ’s. For example Madonna’s CD is “Madonna no CD” in Japanese.
All the other words are explained on the GenkiJapan.net page at:
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/maryhadalittlelamb.htm
There’s also the mp3 version to buy and listen toon your ipod everyday ( to get it stuck in your head, and to support us making more videos!), and a poster for your wall!
Enjoy,
Be genki,
Richard
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