Current Events > Day 41 of learning Japanese

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That's impressive. I wanna finish leaning Spanish and/or move onto Italian. I could be fluent in Spanish by now but I slacked off for years. I can actually still read it sometimes, simple stuff.

Yeah, I know a tiny tiny bit of Spanish. I wanted to learn Japanese in high school, but my mom forced me to take Spanish instead. I get why, but I wish I had just taken Japanese classes any way.

My first Spanish 1 teacher was from France and had a thick French accent. She said her French accent prevented her from rolling her Rs properly for Spanish. Then she got mad at us late in the year because we didnt know how to roll our Rs properly either. My 2nd Spanish 1 teacher was GREAT. Then she quit because the kids were so bad. My Spanish 2 teacher was OK, but I didnt retain much. We mostly just did worksheets instead of more verbal learning in her class.

Italian's a phenomenonal language. Not much use for it in America sadly. Was fairly prominent up until the early 80s. Sad to see such a beautiful language dying.

What does it teach for numbers 4 and 7?

For 4, Ive learned yon / / . Yon ji ) is 4 oclock. Yon sai (is 4 years old.
For 7, Ive learned nana / / . Nana ji is 7 oclock and nana sai is 7 years old. Ive also learned that shichi is an alternate pronunciation for , but Duolingo is mostly using nana so far.

Duolingo is kind of crap with non-roman alphabet languages. Plus the Japanese grammar and pronunciation is unnatural.

Id also stay away from anime, and veer towards dramas if you want to watch stuff. Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak. Youre going to embarrass yourself if you mimic that. The morning dramas are good if you can stomach them.

Its really hard to find good ways to learn Japanese, as hardly anyone outside Japan speaks it, but boy do so many internet people and youtubers love to think they are fluent because of anime. Please focus on what people who live there, or foreigners who have lived there ( not toured there) suggest.

Most people will say use Anki, as it has the most accurate and useful learning tools for Japanese. You could also find online teachers, but. Thats hard to find a Japanese person who actually understands the needs of a foreigner learning Japanese. The way they learn Japanese is not the way a westerner learns a language.

Anyway, use Anki, write in a notebook, repetitive phrases. Its boring but it will help you if you dont have anyone else to speak to. Duolingo is for freshening up, but it will not teach you good Japanese.

Duolingo is kind of crap with non-roman alphabet languages. Plus the Japanese grammar and pronunciation is unnatural.

Id also stay away from anime, and veer towards dramas if you want to watch stuff. Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak. Youre going to embarrass yourself if you mimic that. The morning dramas are good if you can stomach them.

Its really hard to find good ways to learn Japanese, as hardly anyone outside Japan speaks it, but boy do so many internet people and youtubers love to think they are fluent because of anime. Please focus on what people who live there, or foreigners who have lived there ( not toured there) suggest.

Most people will say use Anki, as it has the most accurate and useful learning tools for Japanese. You could also find online teachers, but. Thats hard to find a Japanese person who actually understands the needs of a foreigner learning Japanese. The way they learn Japanese is not the way a westerner learns a language.

Anyway, use Anki, write in a notebook, repetitive phrases. Its boring but it will help you if you dont have anyone else to speak to. Duolingo is for freshening up, but it will not teach you good Japanese. Also, HelloTalk will introduce you to many native speakers who you can chat with, as long as you dont act like a creep and try to date them, like some guys do.

Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak.

My plan right now is to use Duolingo to learn the basics of hiragana, katakana, and basic phrases. At some point, Im going to move on to another tool like Anki or something else. Ive already started using a Youtube video to help me drill hiragana characters because I felt like I wasnt learning them well enough with Duolingo alone.

Nice, keep at it. I'm using Duolingo myself... on a 1400+ day streak in Japanese.

I know there are better tools for learning, but I'm only doing this casually, doing 2-3 lessons a day.

My plan right now is to use Duolingo to learn the basics of hiragana, katakana, and basic phrases. At some point, Im going to move on to another tool like Anki or something else. Ive already started using a Youtube video to help me drill hiragana characters because I felt like I wasnt learning them well enough with Duolingo alone.

For 4, Ive learned yon / / . Yon ji ) is 4 oclock. Yon sai (is 4 years old.
For 7, Ive learned nana / / . Nana ji is 7 oclock and nana sai is 7 years old. Ive also learned that shichi is an alternate pronunciation for , but Duolingo is mostly using nana so far.

Id also stay away from anime, and veer towards dramas if you want to watch stuff. Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak. Youre going to embarrass yourself if you mimic that. The morning dramas are good if you can stomach them.

Its really hard to find good ways to learn Japanese, as hardly anyone outside Japan speaks it, but boy do so many internet people and youtubers love to think they are fluent because of anime. Please focus on what people who live there, or foreigners who have lived there ( not toured there) suggest.

I knew a wonderful lady from Japan a long time ago, and she taught me to count to 10 she used Shi for 4 and nana for 7. I only recently learned of yon and shichi, like that other poster says the rumor is because shi is also the word for death, but I have no idea.

For 4, Ive learned yon / / . Yon ji ) is 4 oclock. Yon sai (is 4 years old.
For 7, Ive learned nana / / . Nana ji is 7 oclock and nana sai is 7 years old. Ive also learned that shichi is an alternate pronunciation for , but Duolingo is mostly using nana so far.

Japanese Kanji has a lot of readings, even this word [] (Tanabata) has a unique spelling.
Then, is the kanji for [] with a lot of readings.

Id also stay away from anime, and veer towards dramas if you want to watch stuff. Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak. Youre going to embarrass yourself if you mimic that. The morning dramas are good if you can stomach them.

Even though it's indeed read as , that should be there.

Ah, youre right, thanks. Ill have to figure out how to type the other one on the Japanese keyboard at some point.

similarly you should have a instead of a

What Japanese keyboard? When using IME, it's wo.

So to type the small i in (ti) you would type xi, yp could also type it as li.

Thing is like how much of learning it is just mechanical memorization and how much is actually "feeling" the language? I think the difference is probably when you become fluent