My Japanese Presentation

[«Jack»]

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.

That's why I'll probably never learn an East Asian language. I'll stick to just learning where to put accents, thank you very much.

 

[Tyeforce]

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

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[Tyeforce]

Quoting limited to 5 levels deepso 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.

So you're studying on your own, not through a class?

 

[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.

That's why I'll probably never learn an East Asian language. I'll stick to just learning where to put accents, thank you very much.

It only took me about a week to learn hiragana. Seriously, it's not hard at all. I still don't know katakana 100%, though. XD

 

[Jas0n]

Quoting limited to 5 levels deepso

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.

So you're studying on your own, not through a class?

Yea, I hate classes, I prefer to work at my own pace. Found some great learning sources on the web.

 

[Dimitri Petrenko]

Im gonna start learning japanesse after christmas at school
Its a lunch time thing but most people are anime fans and brought a manga book ( I did as well )

 

[Nixie]

I know all the hiragana, 80% of katakana and some kanji... its mega confusing when trying to learn Chinese and Japanese at the same time as French, Spanish, and English... Ahh... the joys of school XS

 

[Tyeforce]

Quoting limited to 5 levels deepso

How much Japanese do you know?

Not a ton, only recently started studying it.

So you're studying on your own, not through a class?

Yea, I hate classes, I prefer to work at my own pace. Found some great learning sources on the web.

See, I could never do that. I'd procrastinate and never get around to it. I need an actual class to attend, or else I'll never learn anything.

 

[beehdaubs]

My friend is in his 3rd year of Japanese and he is only just now beginning to formulate simple conversations. He said it pretty much took them almost the entire year to learn the alphabet and memorize the symbols, and then begin to perfect it during the second year. You must have a good curriculum to be learning all this so fast, Tye.

 

[Jas0n]

My friend is in his 3rd year of Japanese and he is only just now beginning to formulate simple conversations. He said it pretty much took them almost the entire year to learn the alphabet and memorize the symbols, and then begin to perfect it during the second year. You must have a good curriculum to be learning all this so fast, Tye.

On average, it takes the normal person 1-2 weeks to fully learn the hiragana & katakana alphabets and around 3 years to develop pretty fluent japanese. The same goes for any language really.

Your friend must either be severely slacking off or he just has a really bad memory xD

 

[Pear]

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;

No, sombereros and gorros are both masculine.