Rikadyn

I'm intrested in learning Japanese, and i was wondering if any of the ppl out there who know it have any recomendations on books or programs to buy.  I seriously want to learn this language and possibly(hopefully) move to japan.

DrDubbleB

I'm learning it right now, but I'm taking a class, not doing it on my own.  PM me and I'll find you the website that my professor gave me that apparently has TONS of resources for learning the language.

koto

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html read this before u start. BTW im japanese , if u need help let me know!

koto <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

koto

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html read this before u start. BTW im japanese , if u need help let me know!

koto <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

Rikadyn

<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/huh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':huh:'> nani? funny...but i don't get it <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

ruf

hahahaha! that was hilarious!

NervGS

Dude...

Just PLEASE do not become the "all knowing gaijin" if you ever do goto Japan, and don't act like an asshole like most gaijins do... &nbsp;I've ran into plenty myself, and even almost got into 2 fights! &nbsp;I've NEVER gotten into any fights back in southern California! &nbsp;One fight was over a VIDEO GAME, guy lost and gave me the FU because he thought I was a typical resident and did not know English, other time it was some fat dude that thought he can make me move out of his way and tried pushing me...

Though I have ran into alot of cool gaijins also, those are mostly non-white people, not trying say that all white people in Japan are not cool, but majority I ran into were all mean to me...

-glenn

Danio

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (koto @ Sep. 09 2002,9:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html read this before u start. BTW im japanese , if u need help let me know!

koto <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Haha LOL!! Aaaaahahahahahaha... Koto, will you be my Japanese girlfriend?

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Rikadyn

okay...I bought a Kana workbook, a dictionary and Japanese for Dummies...so far so good...but then i haven't actually tried the Voiced part of Hiragana yet...oh and no worry about becoming the know it all...i'm the anime freak type...

fastpace

I am also taking Japanese, but in a class. So far it is hard as hell, but I am studying alot. I have almost learned the first 46 syllables in Hiragana and have I think about another 100 more characters to go.

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Bamboo628

LOL!!! I already tried spanish and FAILED!
So, I thought I'll give japanese a try.
Currently enrolled in a japanese class myself.
Then I saw this thread and went to the link Koto posted.
Read every single word and laughed my ass off. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>
Then it hit me...It was all true! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> LOL
Well, the other reason why I'm taking that class.
Partly, because a friend of my has a japanese girlfriend and he somewhat sucked me into it.
I mean, she is so japanese that she is living in japan right now.
He managed to find one of those exchange student.
She is like really really fresh sushi.
Not that fresh sushi refers to japanese girls or anything like that. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>
I just thought it was a good to get what I'm saying across.
*Runs and hide from the flames he's going to get from this comment*

koto

fresh sushi!! &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/inlove.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

koto <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

GotDriftS14

haha i just read that page that koto linked to....damn thats so true about the 3 types of Japanese students!! hahaha...... i swear most of the people in my class are the Anime type of dorks, even a guy who wears the same evangelion shirt every day, haha, its true...then theres a few know-it-alls, even a girl in ther who has a japanese boyfriend, and then there a few Deer Caught In Headlights, and i think i might be one of them, haha that was a cool page...

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wingsnthangs

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA man that site was hilarious. Most likely i took Japanese1 over the summer.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Grammatical Structure

The Japanese have what could be called an "interesting" grammatical structure, but could also be called "confusing", "random", "bogus" or "evil". To truly understand this, let's examine the differences between Japanese and English grammar.

English Sentence:
Jane went to the school.

Same Sentence In Japanese:
School Jane To Went Monkey Apple Carbeurator.
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Oh man thats so true. The Chinese language also sorta uses that same grammar structure but i guess Japanese was so damn confusing to me cuz im familiar with Mandarin already.