| Japanese as a second language - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| Xtra_X |
| Has anyone here gone to the extent of learning Japanese as a second language? I'm contemplating it, looks difficult. |
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| ChromeDragon |
Learning to speak languages is a lot easier than learning to read and write them. You don't call someone illiterate because they can't speak the language do you?
Obviously different scripts will make things much more difficult when it comes to reading. For languages using Latin scripts it's often a whole lot easier to pick up other languages using the same.
I've thought about learning to speak Japanese many times, but I just never get around to doing anything about it. I also want to improve my French and learn a few other languages as well: German, Spanish, Mandarin, maybe Portuguese? |
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| colossus |
| Japanese is about a 4/5 for difficulty. It's not impossible, but definitely harder than European languages. The best way is to go live/experience it for awhile. There is a JET (Japanese Exchange Teachers Program) you can enroll in to teach english in Japan while getting paid. There you can learn Japanese 1st hand. |
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| kevito_ |
| If you want to learn Japanese, make sure you take the integrated approach. Do not learn through Romanization. Integrate character writing, reading, grammar and speech when learning. Otherwise it’s just a waste of time. Same goes for any character based written language. |
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| lazymf |
i took it for 4 years [well the 4th being rather useless] and im pretty fluent i think. some kinks need to be worked out but its not that bad.
if you speak canto, its easier. canto has many similar sounding words. |
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| Stainless |
| You could always go to Japan and be the stereotypical gaijin. |
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| b18c5crx |
Japanese is one of the easier languages to learn if you submerse yourself in it.
from Asian countries that is.
Of course the regular abc alphabet languages will be somewhat easier as we already can read it and know the phonetics. |
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