My Japanese Presentation

[Tyeforce]

I thought it would be more difficult. Spanish is based off of Latin too, so most of the root words are the same. Besides, you don't have to learn a new alphabet.

Because Japanese uses completely different character sets, there is a little more that you have to learn at first, but once you get that down it's really easy. Pretty much all of the grammar rules apply to everything in the language, so once you learn one thing, you can apply it to just about anything else. As for the different character sets, there are three; hiragana「ひらがな」, katakana「カタカナ」, and kanji「漢字」. Romaji, which is basically our latin alphabet, is also used to a lesser extent. Hiragana and katakana are actually very easy to learn. Each character represents a syllable. There are different lines of hiragana, with five characters each (except the R, Y, W, and -N lines). They're all in this order: a (ah), i (ee), u (oo), e (eh), o (oh). So the first line is the vowel line, and it consists of あ (a), い (i), う (u), え (e), and お (o). The next line is the K line, and it consists of か (ka), き (ki), く (ku), け (ke), and こ (ko). Then it continues to S, T, N, H, M, etc... Here's a chart of all the hiragana characters:

Katakana is basically the same as hiragana, except it uses different characters. Hiragana is used for native Japanese words, while katakana is used for foreign words and names. Here's a chart of katakana:

Kanji is a little more complicated... There are literally thousands of them. By the time you graduate high school in Japan, I think it's something like 2,000 kanji that you have to have learned. But the memorization of the kanji's stroke order and pronunciation are really the only difficult parts. The grammar rules for kanji are just as consistent as the rest of the language. It just takes a lot of time and practice to learn the kanji itself. I've only learned somewhere between 30 and 50 kanji so far, I think.

 

[Tyeforce]

EDIT: Double post.

 

[Jas0n]

How long have you been studying Japanese then, Tye?

 

[Tyeforce]

How long have you been studying Japanese then, Tye?

About three months.

 

[Jas0n]

How long have you been studying Japanese then, Tye?

About three months.

You must be a fairly quick learner then ;o

 

[coffeebean!]

I want to learn Japanese D:<
But good speech!

It's actually pretty easy to learn. MUCH easier than Spanish. The only thing that's kinda difficult is the kanji.

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Hats are females ;w;

 

[Numner]

I want to learn Japanese D:<
But good speech!

It's actually pretty easy to learn. MUCH easier than Spanish. The only thing that's kinda difficult is the kanji.

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Hats are females ;w;

Well hats have holes :S

I wanna wear a hat now.

....

.-.

 

[-Aaron]

Weeaboo.

 

[Rockman!]

Google said:
Good morning. Marini my name is Thai. I love video games, games like the one divine countenance mediocrity. Not at all like Sony and Microsoft are not. The video games with her boyfriend. We are divine countenance Wii and DS and DSi are divine countenance. There are three Dai Wii. There a lot of games. I like Super Smash Brothers Bourlard one mediocrity. It is very enjoyable. Now, New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the old tradition of Zelda Spirito Talks and Thara. Thank you.

 

[Jas0n]

Google said:
Good morning. Marini my name is Thai. I love video games, games like the one divine countenance mediocrity. Not at all like Sony and Microsoft are not. The video games with her boyfriend. We are divine countenance Wii and DS and DSi are divine countenance. There are three Dai Wii. There a lot of games. I like Super Smash Brothers Bourlard one mediocrity. It is very enjoyable. Now, New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the old tradition of Zelda Spirito Talks and Thara. Thank you.

Google's translation sucks though tbh xD

 

[Tyeforce]

Weeaboo.

I'm no weeaboo. >_>

 

[Tyeforce]

How long have you been studying Japanese then, Tye?

About three months.

You must be a fairly quick learner then ;o

Yeah, I tend to learn things very fast if I'm interested in it. Also, I have a great sensei.

 

[-Aaron]

Weeaboo.

I'm no weeaboo. >_>

I giggled.

 

[Tyeforce]

Weeaboo.

I'm no weeaboo. >_>

I giggled.

What makes you think I'm a weeaboo?

 

[Ricano]

I want to learn Japanese D:<
But good speech!

It's actually pretty easy to learn. MUCH easier than Spanish. The only thing that's kinda difficult is the kanji.

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Well Spanish is pretty easy as it sounds almost like other languages. But I was raised with speaking spanish xD
And how hard is it to speak Japanese? I see words fly out of people's mouths and wonder how the hell they can remember it :L

 

[Tyeforce]

I want to learn Japanese D:<
But good speech!

It's actually pretty easy to learn. MUCH easier than Spanish. The only thing that's kinda difficult is the kanji.

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Well Spanish is pretty easy as it sounds almost like other languages. But I was raised with speaking spanish xD
And how hard is it to speak Japanese? I see words fly out of people's mouths and wonder how the hell they can remember it :L

I'm finding learning words in Japanese to be very easy, almost natural. Speed comes with experience, though. I can't talk anywhere near as fast as a native speaker.

 

[Jas0n]

I want to learn Japanese D:<
But good speech!

It's actually pretty easy to learn. MUCH easier than Spanish. The only thing that's kinda difficult is the kanji.

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Well Spanish is pretty easy as it sounds almost like other languages. But I was raised with speaking spanish xD
And how hard is it to speak Japanese? I see words fly out of people's mouths and wonder how the hell they can remember it :L

I found that once you have the basic sounds of the japanese language down, it's super easy to pronounce and remember words.

 

[Tyeforce]

Quoting limited to 5 levels deep

sir

sir

spanish is MUCH MUCH MUCCCHHH easier to learn

that is all.

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Well Spanish is pretty easy as it sounds almost like other languages. But I was raised with speaking spanish xD
And how hard is it to speak Japanese? I see words fly out of people's mouths and wonder how the hell they can remember it :L

I found that once you have the basic sounds of the japanese language down, it's super easy to pronounce and remember words.

How much Japanese do you know?

 

[-Aaron]

Weeaboo.

I'm no weeaboo. >_>

I giggled.

What makes you think I'm a weeaboo?

I don't. You just took the bait for a trolling :V

 

[Jas0n]

Quoting limited to 5 levels deep

No, no it isn't. I took a Spanish class in high school, and it made no *censored.3.0*ing sense to me at all. And what the hell is up with every single noun having a gender?! I shouldn't have to remember that a table is table is female and a hat is male. I'm sorry, but Japanese is just so much easier. Pretty much every grammar rule is consistent throughout the hole language. Once you learn the basics, it's very easy. The only part that can be difficult is learning the kanji.

Well Spanish is pretty easy as it sounds almost like other languages. But I was raised with speaking spanish xD
And how hard is it to speak Japanese? I see words fly out of people's mouths and wonder how the hell they can remember it :L

I found that once you have the basic sounds of the japanese language down, it's super easy to pronounce and remember words.

How much Japanese do you know?

Not a ton, only recently started studying it.