/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What' the best way to learn Japanese?

[Anonymous No.]

Actually. /jp/ just pretends to know japanese. It's too grorious for you baka western minds.

[Anonymous No.]

Books/guides that make sense to you and immersion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709691
What books?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709696
Books that teach you Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709699
Have any titles?

[Anonymous No.]

Heisig Remembering the Kana
Genki 1 & 2
http://www.hellodamage.com/kanjidicks/main.htm
Yotsubato! in Nihongo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709705

+ turn off the subtitles.

[Sakura !!32RHYzwb/Ga No.]

Watch anime.

[Anonymous No.]

How do I pronounce the words? Some of the words have more than one way to pronounce and I don't know when to use them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709694
You spelled bakka wrong?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709687
Rosetta Stone, so good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709725

Rosetta Stone is the best way to go OP.

[Sakura !!32RHYzwb/Ga No.]

>>3709722
Example?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709725
>>3709733
xD

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709725

Is it? i heard it only teaches phrases and such. Not the actual language.

[Spiral (Dreamer of dreams) !!gEboGl65CZ1 No.]

You need love.

Without it, Japanese cannot be learned.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709738
The words that pronounce in more than one way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709766
there are none, unless you include slang shortenings or very minor variations

Anyway, first learn hiragana and katakana (of course). I'd suggest making sure you know katakana better since you'll be reading hiragana all the time, so you don't need to practice it as much explicitly.
Then go through
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
as much as possible.
Get the Heisig book and go through the first 200 or so until you get the idea of how you should be memorizing things, and then use that method (along with the heisig primitive names if necessary) to remember the kanji you need to look up.
Learn every word's kanji at the same time as you learn the word, not later.
Then just get as much reading in as possible, or be boring and go through a textbook.
http://www.readthekanji.com/
Is decent for practicing reading sentences and kanji. Just make sure you can read the entire sentence every time, and look up anything you don't know.

[Anonymous No.]

actually, I guess there are things like daiji and oogoto that are written the same way （大事）, but I would just consider them different words with the same writing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709766
Do you mean the on/kun readings?

[Sakura !!32RHYzwb/Ga No.]

>>3709766
If you mean different readings for kanji, you generally tell by the context.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709805
What's on/kun?

>>3709807
What's context?

[Anonymous No.]

Also, incredibly useful tools:
http://www.whiteknightlogic.net/kanjidb/search/dictsearch.php
Great for looking up words that are written in kanji. Has a huge list of words using a kanji when you look up that kanji. Shitty kanji search function though (afaik you can't search for a radical and stroke count at the same time)

http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=&g=&e=&s=&rt
=0&start=1&sid=1241585663_92537
What I use when I need to search for a specific unknown kanji, since you can do what the last one couldn't. I then paste it into the first one to actually get good information about it.

http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
Good for looking up words. Pay attention to which words have the (P), meaning its a common word.

Rikai-chan
awesome addon, very useful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709814
troll thread confirmed :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709687
I'm learning japanese on a couse at a language course with a friend, Its fun but I can tell you the most pupils are wanabe animus with are pretanding to be animus :D
Im often lol-ing at their pronouncing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709823
What's troll?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3709823
No, really I don't know.