Learning Japanese!

[Sviests]

Okay. I want to familiarize with the situation I`m having here. We all know that economic crisis is all over the world and ruining our lives. Well, the same happens in my country. The thing is, this year I started going in a prestigious high-school. All the time the school had a Japanese teacher, teaching the forgotten language of far east (I'm living in Western Europe), but you can guess what happened last year. Our country thought Japanese isn`t essential for the youth and decided to send the cool Japanese guy back home. The problem starts here - I actually joined the school only, because it had a Japanese class. Now I`m sitting in Escapist with my dream went *poof* and a real unstoppable desire to learn Japanese [small] Not only because of the anime, you fool [/small]. Now my fellow Homo escapistus Vulgaris , what I want to know from you. Where you learned Japanese and if you did, do share about your experiences. Thanks in advance!

NOTE: Do NOT send me back to Google! I tried that and found all website complete BS.

 

[aruseusx]

Schools will fuck you over period.

Example : I couldn't continue japanese because my Catholic school required me to take religion as a subject and I had six subjects to choose. English, PE and religion took up three of them and heres what I picked:
Maths
Biology
Chemistry
I wanted(repeat wanted) to be a vet. So my school fucked me over as well.

 

[Snork Maiden]

My university teach semesterly Japanese courses (for a small fee) that I think are open to anyone (certainly open to non-students) - could look into that.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

same happened to me with Latin. Schools tend to do that. I could not carry on with Latin, since I had to learn Civic Education...

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

Our school is insane. They operate on a system of a year that join learn French. The year after that learn Spanish. Then the next year learn French, so they take it in turns on language. Luckily I got French which I wanted so YAY!, but it still a serious cramp on liberty.

 

[Sviests]

I tried learning in internet, but turned down soon after. I want to learn Japanese badly, but have no other way than internet. Maybe there are some good online learning sites? (With good I mean the best.)

 

[Lullabye]

EXact same thing happened to me. Had a Japanese class, so \i attended the school. Whent he year finally started *poof* went the japanese class.

I tried learning in internet, but turned down soon after. I want to learn Japanese badly, but have no other way than internet. Maybe there are some good online learning sites? (With good I mean the best.)

I was soon met with the same conundrum. How could I possibly learn japanese? Now I am considering hiring a tutor, seeing as I have a ton of asian friends and one is bound to be Japanese(since we're all otaku in some form or another)

 

[notascleverasithinkiam]

Depending on how much you want to learn, you could look into night courses. All depends on whether you want to have another class after school.

 

[Sviests]

It seems like a lot of people have such problems. Its a shame, because the more languages you know the better it is. You know, you can be cosmopolitan or stuff like that. Besides we all know that working abroad pays off better than at home (depends on where you live).

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I trying to learn how to speak it....And so far so good.

 

[Sviests]

You learning in school, internet of w/ a private teacher?

I trying to learn how to speak it....And so far so good.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

My girlfriend played around with Rosetta Stone for Japanese, she would probably recommend it as she is working there this summer.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

hate to point this out but look up on google for local language classes. the larger city you live in the more likely you'll have one.

the issue with learning Japanese is speaking the correct version of it. there is a female and a male version of Japanese, the funny part is most western guys learn the female version of it

 

[bluepilot]

I took a major in Japanese at University. It took 5 years but I now have JLTP 1 and I am doing my post-grad at Osaka University.

It is really difficult to find a good Japanese teacher, even here in Japan.

Why not try some automonous learning strategies?

I have always found that the best way to learn Japanese is by yourself

I propose that you use the JLPT 4 as a study outline.

 

[RanD00M]

I'm personally learning Japanese.My sister gave me some CD that teach you the basics of the language.

 

[mrhappyface]

Well having a Japanese speaking mother that majored in English does come in handy for me. Learning languages isn't easy unless you grew up with it. Plus, Japanese is a Level 4 language, so yeah.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

You learning in school, internet of w/ a private teacher?

I trying to learn how to speak it....And so far so good.

Internet...but it's hard.

English is harder though.

 

[Insanum]

Just in addition too the OP, Ive been looking at "Rosetta Stone" for learning either Japanese/Italian, Anyone used this, And how good is it?

 

[Deleted]

I'll get a teacher
to gives you classes
so I speak to you in Japanese as well.

I think I'm learning
I think I'm learning
I think I'm learning Japanese yeah.

^^ All the japanese you need to know.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I only know a few words gained by reading raw translated japanese.

Hope to learn the language as a whole some day.
Good luck, and you may wish to look into the "Rosetta Stone" thing.