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Please Help My Poor Soul
I REALLY want to learn Japanese, but I don't know where to start. And I tend to learn things best when I have some type of mentor/"teacher" to look up to. Sadly, though, I haven't been able to find anyone- at least anyone who is willing to go the full distance with me. If anyone knows where to start or is even just willing to help me out in general please... hit me up. (=・ω・=) If no one can do that then could you maybe just point me into the right direction so that I may teach myself? Thanks! (=・ω・=)
Hmm, it really depends on how you learn. I'm not a language teacher, but having learned some languages myself, I could try to give you a few pointers.
First, there are a lot of online resources that have courses dedicated to teaching various things. So, if you like to receive formal instruction, then I would suggest doing a search for some of tho...... 1 reply
there are lots of apps to learn like memrise, linguti, bliu bliu, the japanese pod101, etc. You can also find teachers and people that will study with you in apps like italki and lang-8,etc
I would recommend you to start with "tae kim's guide to learning japanese", and well i think that's all... remember to be careful when talking with people ther...... 1 reply
Well, you must consider that learning Japanese takes months to year. As if I can suggest you is try to write and speak hiragana and katakana characters first. Then try to write few simple kanji and it so called radicals. Dont forget kanji in japanese have onyomi (chinese reading) and kunyomi (japanese reading). At this rate you can try to watch you...... 1 reply
Hello! I've been learning japanese with みんなの日本語 (minna no nihongo) books for 1,5 year and ニューアプローチ中上級日本語 (New Approach) for the rest. I started with the most basic, learn how to write hiragana and following with katakana. Minna no nihongo is one of the best learning japanese book for me since it's easy to u...... 1 reply
I really recommend the Genki books for learning basic japanese. After you've gone through the 2 books you 'd learned basic japanese grammar, hiragana, katakana and about 300 kanji. I currently live in japan and study japanese at a language school and we had those books in the beginning. I'm studying so i can take the JLPT N3 next year without it be...... 1 reply