#6-1 - My Japan Trip & Learning Japanese

More details about things you can do to help yourself learn Japanese. Also some stuff about my Japan trip back in November, and some photos as vids I took. ^^

the Kanji Radical Lookup I mentioned in this video: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1R

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• 日本
• 日本語
• learning japanese
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[akirasugoineko]

Very interesting video. I am learning japanese by using rosetta stone, listening to japanese music and seeing japanese anime , and japanese movies constantly 24 / 7 . bombarding my brain with japanese. And I try to think in japanese and look up the words I wanna think. Everywhere I look I see new stuff I wannt know how to say in japanese. I have not thought of the DS. I am going to try that out. Also I use "Heisig - Remembering The Kanji" and "Japanese the manga way".

[tokirocket]

@akirasugoineko I saw Learning Japanese the manga way, but from what I saw, the manga inside are made for the book... so it's not what you're thinking. While I have the Heisig book, I'm preferring memorization and reading in context. The main weakness for Heisig is that the kanji are being placed in a different context from how they will be used once you've memorized them. Learning Kanji is like learning people's faces "I can see Bob at the Candy store" so when I go there, I expect to see Bob.

[InvidiaRaindrops]

I really enjoy writing in Japanese, I love that they have a stroke order. Whilst I was learning it, I found that watching videos on how to write it, and learning the stroke order really helped me memorise all the Hiragana and Katakana.

But I'm still yet to remember basic Kanji >.<;;

[tokirocket]

@InvidiaRaindrops profecieincy in hand written kanji has also dropped in Japan, so don't feel bad. The prevalence of computers and cellphones makes handwriting less and less important. I'm saving hand written kanji for last. Once I have them all memorized and an use them, then the stroke order can come last. Since we didn't learn from a young age, we don't have as much time to grow into Japanese, a lot of use want to learn faster, so some things get dropped. For me it was stoke order.

[shotamerican]

i read shonen jump and shoujo comics a lot, BUT i am spoiled by the furigana. hehe, being forced  to speak it was the only way i ever learned..

[tokirocket]

@shotamerican furigana won't spoil anyone, I know way too many people who can recognize kanji but they don't know the readings.

[DreamChasersInc]

As a teacher, I think that fluency is 4 pronged: spoken language, written language, how someone interprets the language used and how they interpret the the culture and social context it's used in a given situation, and that's further altered by their intent with the language and where you want it to go. The further they grow in their ability, the more specialized their language will go; key to this is befriending those who will help guide the way they grasp new concepts and people

[KatrinaluffKuya]

Wow I've never heard of those rail pass things. I was planning on going to Hiroshima to visit some people next summer but I also wanted to go to Tokyo but I didn't want to pay for 2 shikansen rides. I'm interested in getting a pass so do you mind telling me how you got it and how much it cost?

[secretgirllisout]

U remind me of "boxxybabee"

[MrRubberDuckClan]

@tokirocket How exactly do i pronounce kazegusuri i cant do it im going to japan is 6-7 months and i wana learn basic things iv learned like every greeting acouple shopping stuff useful phrases

[cpsparkles521]

lol i went to book off a couple days ago but not in japan, here in america. i found one here in hawaii.

[yasuyuumizu]

日本のマンガ・・・読まれているのを見て、とても嬉しいです。

風邪薬まで飲んでいるなんて！

よろしくお願いします。

[LittleBayPony]

haha i have been playing a full japanese game, ever heard of ouran high school host club? or rather, 殴蘭高校ホストクラブ　^^

shoujo otome games are fun to start out as your first japanese game xD ooops ^^'

[bob4ubaby1]

i hope if you ware my teacher of Japanese language.

[hirukoSAI]

hey tokirocket! i was wondering if you knew what kind of level of japanese katekyo hitman reborn is, since they stopped publishing them in english a while ago and yeah.

[forestguardian2003]

ps. Belated congratulations! Good health and well wishes to you and your growing family ^_^