Can anyone speak Japanese?

[JimmaJamJamie]

Can any of you lot speak Japanese?

How long did it take you to learn as i want to learn and then wanna go to Japan for a couple of months in my gapyear?

[ketamine]

http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/

[sigbowls]

if i did i would moove to japan

[bandshell]

not much.

[JimmaJamJamie]

I wanna try and teach myself but reckon it would be fucking hard. I will give it ago.

Japanese people are fucking cool and the whole culture of japan and everything about the country is just well intriguing .

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[bandshell]

[JimmaJamJamie]

Japan Air .

[boomstix]

I speak japanese ok.

its not too bad for speaking, give it six months of speaking everyday and you'll be comfortable. the best, in my opinion the only, way to learn is to hang out with japanese people. just go to japanese grocery stores and restaurants and look on the noticeboard for a 'language exchange' person. you will teach them english and they will teach you japanese, good trade.

[the artful dodger]

I speak japanese ok.

its not too bad for speaking, give it six months of speaking everyday and you'll be comfortable. the best, in my opinion the only, way to learn is to hang out with japanese people. just go to japanese grocery stores and restaurants and look on the noticeboard for a 'language exchange' person. you will teach them english and they will teach you japanese, good trade.

How would that work?

[boomstix]

basically, you just struggle to talk to each other at first. start with hello, my name is, that kind of stuff.

its actually pretty fun as long as you choose someone you get along with. after a while you'll be getting a few sentences together and you'll be able to ask the names of things etc

mostly you wouldn't want to do it that long, just maybe a hour or two per day, couple or three times a week. pretty soon you'll be able to go for coffee together or whatever to make it more interesting.

you don't have to meet them from a noticeboard, any japanese person you can find who wants to learn english better and you like talking to is great. just that japanese restaurants here in australia tend to have a bunch of japanese backpackers working in them so they're a good source of language skills

[JimmaJamJamie]

Sick, cheers for the adivce. Well there is a lot of Japanese people at my college so i could see if i could do that with one of them but i would be abit nervous about it ha.

[ketamine]

Word of encouragement: I was studying Spanish for about a year, struggled pretty much. Went to Puerto Rico for half a month and pretty much came back conversational. No amount of studying equals "being there"...

[86.]

they have some site or something...some online shit where you can pick up languages by listening to some dude speak sentences and translate them.

Word of encouragement: I was studying Spanish for about a year, struggled pretty much. Went to Puerto Rico for half a month and pretty much came back conversational. No amount of studying equals "being there"...

Spanish one language I really wanna learn. Sure, it'd be more logical to learn French seeing how I'm in Canada...and come from a half french city more or less...but Spanish is "cooler".

I heard once you know French it aint too hard to pick up Spanish. I can pretty much read entire pages of Spanish, so I'm almost there.

[dubsteptim]

日本語

[sinc_vision]

Have been speaking for about 7/8 years now. After 5/6 years of self study I'm now studying it at degree level in the hope of one day making some good money out of the skill. It's a very learnable language, you just need to invest time in the written part of it because it's ten times more rewarding that way, especially if and when you spend time in the country itself. Learn to write hiragana and katakana first, then get some basic grammar structure and vocab, the rest comes relatively easy after that.

Oh, and you could do worse than start your learning experience here:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/sinclair-se ... 0classroom
If you're interested in anything specific feel free to revive it as I'll be happy to add stuff to it if there's demand.

[CollisionCourse]

i speak english if that helps