Learning Japenese

Discussion in 'General' started by Valdimiar, May 28, 2004.

  1. Valdimiar

    Valdimiar Well-Known Member

    Does anyone know a website that will help me learn Japenese?
    I cannot find anything on or off the internet at moment.
     
  2. thebradSHow

    thebradSHow Well-Known Member

    http://japanese.about.com/ the great thing about languages online, the name of the language.about.com is a website for almost all of em (don't try aramaic though /versus/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
     
  3. Valdimiar

    Valdimiar Well-Known Member

    This is going to be harder than I had first predicted
    Wa is used connect a main clause with a subordinate? or is it a word used as is or it's?
     
  4. GLC

    GLC Well-Known Member

    I can't believe you couldn't find anything japanese-learning-related on the net... even entering something as trivial as "japanese basics" yields loads of results. Try searching more efficiently, really...
     
  5. Shaolin_Hopper

    Shaolin_Hopper Well-Known Member

    Have you taken any other language before? If not, you really need to go seek tutoring from someone who speaks the language. It's not as simple as 'Oh, this means sky, this means blue, this means is, so 'kaze aru aoi' means the sky looks blue!' Many of the sentence structures in English simply do not exist in Japanese. Many verb tenses in English don't exist in Japanese, either, and some of the concepts in Japanese are entirely foreign to English, as in it's hard to get the proper translation across.

    Here's a general answer to your predicate question -

    Subject 'wa which is written as a ha hiragana' object 'o written as wo' verb.

    This is for an action verb, and not always an applicable construction. There's another form for existance, another form for the relation of one object to another (the difference between wa and ga as sentence glue), a lot of subtle things in the language that will trip you up.

    And before you get too deep, realize that by the time they graduate middle school, Japanese know about 200 hiragana and katakana(guessing at the count - this is equivalent to learning the ABC's), and about 1700 kanji symbols (not guessing, and not exaggerating - underestimating if anything - this is like learning a vocabulary).
     

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