| do song lyrics to learn to read hiragnaa katakana. |
 今はどんでん返しの時代ではない★너와 함께 했던 일상은 어느샌가 작은 영화속 풍경이되고 ☆ |
| My Japanese teacher never taught us using romanji. She said it was a really bad thing to do and just made things more difficult later on. If you want to get anywhere with the language you need to learn to read and write the scripts. Start with hiragana, then katakana, (they shouldn't take you long) then move on to simple kanji. Remember to pay close attention to the stroke orders. :) |
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| Midori dictionary is arguably the best japanese dictionary for iOS - in addition to the basic functionality (looking up words in Japanese> English or English > Japanese), you can look up kanji by drawing, browse kanji by grade, occurrence, meaning/stroke order, and you can also save words in "folders", and later review them with the built-in flash card (=SRS system). The only problem is the price (10 bucks), but it's worth it imo. edit: it also comes with a table of hiragana and katakana. tapping each character shows the stroke order and such - useful for those who are just starting to learn the language |
| You can buy lossless digital music from your favorite Japanese artists on https://ototoy.jp/. The songs are all DRM-free and you can re-download your purchased albums as you wish. Show your support to your favorite artist if you can! ps. if you are looking for Japanese albums, you have to search it in Japanese (not romaji). Just copy and paste the name. For those who want to learn Japanese through anime Resources for learning the language |
| You definitely always want to learn Kanji last. What you learn first really depends on what you want to do with what you learn. To be totally honest, Hiragana won't be the most useful syllabary for the average otaku (or really just anyone who isn't too interested in learning the language and culture to advanced degrees) because it is used strictly to spell words which haven't been borrowed from other languages. If you are interested in reaching any sort of fluency in Japanese, then start with Hiragana. Katakana doesn't require you to actually know Japanese to understand. For example, words like "Straightener" are transliterated to ストレイテナ- (sutoreitena-)phonetically, which means you'll have no problems recognizing and understanding words which are borrowed from the English language. If you're not totally interested in fluency in Japanese, then Katakana would make the most sense to learn first. You'll want to know both syllabaries before Kanji, though. Kanji often looks like, or even incorporates Hiragana, so it's best to be able to recognize the differences and the contexts before hand. Besides, you'll be amazed at how overwhelming memorizing all the strokes can be, much less understanding how the on and kun-yomi system works. You'll REALLY want to learn the basics about the grammar and pick up some general vocabulary before you give much thought to Kanji. As for apps, try iStart Japanese from Mirai. They don't go in depth with Kanji, but it's a decent app for picking up some basic grammar/sentence structure, vocabulary and learning how to write the kana (with proper stroke order and all). You can get the first 5 lessons for free and the full version with 50 lessons for something like 5 bucks. |
AurumaiJul 1, 2013 3:34 AM
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