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Sort of curious, this should hopefully be the best board for a question like this.

I want to learn Japanese as a second language. I'm not big into the culture or anything, but figuring how Tokyo is the biggest fucking city in the world; I think it'd be wise. Plus I'm interested in something that isn't Western Civilization.

So, how do I go about this?
Should I learn to written language first, or speaking?
I already have Rosetta Stone Japanese, not really digging the lessons though.

Thanks in advance.

>> No.519632

haha weeaboo

>> No.519639

>Tokyo is the biggest fucking city in the world;

Mexico City called, it wants its title back.

>> No.519640

You will never finish learning the written language.

Ever.

>> No.519641

Learn the alphabets first, and how to pronounce them.

>> No.519642
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519642

we prefer this stuff here

>> No.519651
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519651

This thread is now about Touhou.

>> No.519649

Learn Hiragana and Katakana first. If you can't bring yourself to memorize something as "easy" as that, then learning Japanese isn't for you. After that, learn the grammar structure, then start learning words and associating those words with kanji.

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saved for posterity.

>> No.519675
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519675

Stupid sexy Meiling.

>> No.519678

>>519651
Every thread on /jp/ is about fucking Touhou.

>> No.519683

rosetta stone is fucking terrible

>> No.519688

>>519678
>>fucking Touhou

No, that's only China's threads.

>> No.519694

yeah the fucking stone already taught people to read hieroglyphs it can't do every language for god's sake

>> No.519701

>>519694

Plus that shit is heavy to carry around, it's terrible as a pocket dictionary anyway.

>> No.519711

>>519678
How can you hate it.

>> No.519753
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519753

I think Rosetta Stone is awesome, but only AFTER you already have achieved some fluency in Japanese. Doubly so when you can do the kana and then the kanji.

But by itself, there's just too big a leap into Japanese for Rosetta Stone to work. This isn't some closely-related indo-european language like German or French here (where often word-for-word dictionary substitutions will get your point across). This is Japanese!

>> No.519914

If you are serious, the Khatzumoto method.

>> No.519936

>>519640
Technically, we're all still 'learning' the English written language.

>> No.520251

>>519914
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/about

this?

>> No.520292

>>520251
Yes.

>> No.520325

>>520251
>then you will not just learn Japanese, you will become Japanese.
heh

>> No.520342

>>520325
In theory, that makes sense since the language will then feel natural and thus would be easier to learn. Personally, I wouldn't go that far, but it doesn't matter because I only want to be able to read so I can play my eroge.

>> No.520380

>>520292

ahh thanks Im not OP but reading this seems worth it. always a good bit of advice in these threads..

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