If I were you, I'd try to memorize Hiragana/Katakana as soon as possible.Would anyone recommend Genki 1 without knowing the Hiragana/Katakana chart off by heart?
If I were you, I'd try to memorize Hiragana/Katakana as soon as possible.Would anyone recommend Genki 1 without knowing the Hiragana/Katakana chart off by heart?
If I were you, I'd try to memorize Hiragana/Katakana as soon as possible.
Yeah, try to ditch Roumaji as soon as possible!
That's up to you, enough that you're making progress each day I'd say! I learned hiragana and katakana by basically doing them over and over again until they stuck.
Would anyone recommend Genki 1 without knowing the Hiragana/Katakana chart off by heart?
That's up to you, enough that you're making progress each day I'd say! I learned hiragana and katakana by basically doing them over and over again until they stuck.
I finally feel comfortable with all the hiragana and katakana! Enough where I can soooort of read things (with zero comprehension). But the difference between things like つ and っ are hard to notice as I'm still learning.
I'm slowly working with Genki (as a solo venture, I'm just reading things out loud and doing the listening extensively). Any early game tips for learning phrases and memorizing vocab? I haven't had to really do that in...Uh...10+ years.
If you have access to them, the Dr. Moku Hiragana and Katakana apps are INCREDIBLE. They really helped me tremendously when it came to learning the kana.
Is whether you use Katakana, Hiragana or Kanji based on what you know? And Hiragana usually comes before Katakana?
Yes and no. Kanji is learned later, and there are far too many to learn at once, so the amount of kanji varies based off of intended reading level. Kanji might come with hiragana written above it so that you can learn the words. For young kids there may be no kanji at all.
If you're assumed to be comfortable with all of them, they're all used. Kanji would be used for nouns and the stems of verbs and adjectives and such. Hiragana is moreso for grammatical things; particles and verb endings and such. Katakana is for loanwords, or maybe just used for emphasis or some other stylistic purpose.
Well, they aren't born knowing kanji, but from what I can tell the literacy rate is extremely high. I don't know if it's common for adults not to know kanji.Do native speakers sometimes not know Kanji? There are so many symbols and knowing how to write, read and translate seems really confusing.
Well, they aren't born knowing kanji, but from what I can tell the literacy rate is extremely high. I don't know if it's common for adults not to know kanji.
If you're wondering if you should learn it, you probably should. Kanji's a pain to learn but it's actually great for reading since it reduces a lot of ambiguity. Hiragana and katakana are easy, so you can get that out of the way first.
The only one I know is Archipel, formerly known as Toco Toco. They make short documentaries about various Japanese artists.Hey, I'm trying to watch more Japanese videos on youtube to get more recommendations in Japanese. Do you guys know of any good channels in Japanese?
I'm looking more for informative channels that make documentary-style videos and teach you new stuff rather than VLOGs or video game/movies/etc. reviews. For example I enjoy the videos that Vox put out about cities around the world.
Are there any good documentary channel like that available in Japanese? It doesn't have to be about Japan, it just needs to be in Japanese.
Thanks!
Do native speakers sometimes not know Kanji? There are so many symbols and knowing how to write, read and translate seems really confusing.
To make a fluent conversation I don't need Kanji right? Kanji is to just use for writing and reading?
The only one I know is Archipel, formerly known as Toco Toco. They make short documentaries about various Japanese artists.
They are really amazing and there are a lot of videos. The last two in particular were great (the one with Soejima and the one about ramen). It's unfortunate that they have a pretty small audience all things considered.
Man, you really want to avoid kanji, don't you?
What's your goal in learning Japanese anyways?
I never said I wanted to avoid it, I'm just confused to how it's used.
You could try on Android maybe? I managed to buy a couple of things from the Japanese side of things (when they used IAP via Google billing), even though it wasn't really reliable.Today I tried to subscribe to the digital version of the Weekly Shonen Jump but it requires a Japanese credit card :( I tried both the website and the iOS app and neither worked.
Ha well, I guess I'll keep on buying the volumes of the manga I'm interested in when they come out on Kindle.
You could try on Android maybe? I managed to buy a couple of things from the Japanese side of things (when they used IAP via Google billing), even though it wasn't really reliable.
DarkConfidant : just use the person's name >> "Yamada-san no..." That's what sounds the most natural, even if you're directly talking to Yamada. Or "sensei no" is you're talking to your teacher for instance.
If you don't know their name, go with "anata". Or "sochira" if you wanna be even more polite. But that's a level of nuance I highly suggest you don't bother with if it's only been a few months since you started learning. There are a ton of pronouns in Japanese.
It's best not to think about it too much for now, lest you get discouraged. And again, using a person's name and/or title is much more common that using the corresponding pronoun anyway.
Nah Im fine with diving straight in. This isn't the first language I've taught myself. :)
It looks like the name is the answer I'm looking for. Thanks a lot!
I've never heard sochira so far, but I'll look in that as well.
That's not what I meant, but I'm not getting into another discussion on the merits of intuitive/organic acquisition of language vs. conscious learning of rules :p. Also, unless the other language you've taught yourself is as different from your mother tongue as Japanese is, it's likely you'll find learning Japanese a few orders of magnitude more difficult (though definitely not impossible) than your second language, due to how different it is from Western languages.
Is there any effective way to learn kanji that doesn't involve writing it down dozens of times?
I recommend Akebi instead of JED; I believe the dictionary itself is the same, but Akebi is more recent and gets updates, and is more feature-rich. Also, check out https://ejje.weblio.jp/ for more results when looking up words or sentences.Is the material I'm using as a reference OK (Minna no nihongo, JED, jisho.org)? Would you recommend something better for Japanese Level N4?
Yeah, those 2 sentences do sound like born indeed. I searched and got this result:My Japanese isn't great, but I'm pretty sure it means he's the son of DIO and a Japanese woman.
If you google の間に生まれ you'll find results like this that make the meaning quite obvious:
"
黒人と白人との間に生まれた子供は
肌の色はその中間になるんですかね?
"