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Tri_kento
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Member # 194

posted 10-11-2004 04:54 PM

aight, am planning to start a pen pal, am My friend that lives in japan said he could hook me up with some one from his school. any ways he said it would be a good Idea to learn "hiragana", he said it was the easiest and most used alphabete in japan. Any ways has any one here tried to learn hiragana, and if so wat was ur method? I need some help!

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Bomu
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posted 10-11-2004 05:43 PM

I went to a weekly Japanese class to learn. Although I gave up after several months as it started getting too difficult and too boring!

So if I were to go again, I'd try to go with a friend so we can learn together and help each other- in class we worked from the 'Japanese for busy people' text book, but I'm sure there's other good books around and if you find any fun ones- let me know

[ 10-11-2004: Message edited by: Bomu ]

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Tri_kento
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Member # 194

posted 10-11-2004 06:36 PM

It seems it's almost impossable to find a teachers 4 this kinda stuff. I would think the best way to learn would be to be dropped off in japan and forced to learn so u can live there. I don't know maby me and my japan pen pal will work out a way? the world of pictures is blind to no culture. In other words I could make little computer made cartoons that work like a picture book. that might work.

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Si13Nt
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posted 11-11-2004 12:07 PM

i have an idea...become tom cruise, go get beaten up by some samurai, n then live in their village untill winter is over....that way you should learn some japanese

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G.i.A.m.
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Member # 14

posted 11-11-2004 01:51 PM

wa never mentention that movie mister crouse couldnt even use a real sword (they used computer generated swords in the fight scenes)

but that aside.
my tip for learning hiragana is, to write (use pencil) every sign on a small card and the meaning on the other side (every sign represents a syllable). now take all the cards and mix them up. then look at the card and try to guess the meaning (also saying it out loud helps alot) then turn the card around and see if you guessed it right. then proceed trough all the cards.

Doing this everyday for 30min will make you pretty save in recognizing those signs in maybe 2 weeks.

also if you learned the hiragana signs you will wanna start with the katakana signs next, they represent the exact same syllable but look different and is used for all words that are not native japanese (your name would be written in katakana for example). To learn that simply remove the english letters on the card ( you dont need them anymore you know the hiragana signs now) and write down the katakana on that side. now you use the hiragana ones as controll side if you did everything right.

One thing tho keep in mind that learning these means only learning two of the four alphapets (the 4th is the english alphabet ) not japanese itself.

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Tri_kento
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Member # 194

posted 12-11-2004 04:11 AM

thanks 4 the tips, I acutally found I really good site 4 learing, i would give it 2 u guys but I forgot it, but if I do some history searching I should find it. any who it really helps u remember words and junk ex

In japan if u r wearing shorts u are wearing hansone(I think I spelt that right) any ways the way u remember shorts to hansone is to think ur HANDS are ON the shorts, kinds sounds odd, well If i find the site I will post it then it will makes sense trust me.) lol any ways I just gota work up like 50 bucks to buy the CD, maby I'll find a teacher near me and I can pay them to teach me how to write in japan text. that would be nice well any ways I would like to thank u guys 4 the help. I might try a few of the tips later.

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