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[Lenyo]

Hey, I've been seriously considering it for a WHILE.

I've got tons of free time on my hand, I finish all my chores early in the morning, and I decided I want to start an intensive study on the Japanese language. And further delving into such matters later, I wish to learn to read Kanji.


I know we have a plethora of Japanese speaking people on this forum, and I don't know of any classes I can take in real life to help me learn Japanese, so could anybody here help give me tips, teach me the tricks and stuff, and help me out?

Thanks.

[Rumiko]

Hello~

I studied japanese for.....4 years now :3 and I can say I now a decent amount now (enough to get myself out of bad news bears :3)

anyway~
what I recomend you first....before learning Kanji........Hiragana and Katakana.....if you don't know them you will fail...completly ~ Kanji are important too....but the whole grammar is written with Hiragana~ so learn this first :3

use this site :3 for hiragana I recomend

here you have games to learn them
Kana 1
Kana 2

hmm if you know them already~ it's fine....

for general learning Nihongo e naa

what else can I say~ hm I used "Minna no Nihongo" it has a book to practice and one that explains the grammar :3 I'm not overly fond of it...but it's ok~
but to see if you really get along with japanese, the internet might be enough at first :3 beacuse books are expensive~
so, browse the site~ you might find lot's of helpful stuff~

and if you are unsure about the pronouciation and the internet doesn't help~ we can always set up a date via skype and I can check ;-)
this goes for all questions you might have about grammar~ just drop a pm and ask~


by the way, if you get serious with japanese I recomend " A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar" from Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui~ but only buy this if you are serious :3