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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 19 2009, 10:59 PM (1,669 Views) | |
| Dracobolt | Jun 19 2009, 10:59 PM Post #1 |
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So I've been trying to learn Japanese, and I've been looking for online resources for the languages. One of the cooler ones I've found is Japanese Class, which lets you create an account and do quizzes in order to test your knowledge of vocabulary and kanji. It's apparently a new site that still under development, but it still works. I've found it helpful so far, and maybe some of you guys will too. ^_^
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| Poui | Jun 19 2009, 11:26 PM Post #2 |
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Oooh, that's pretty cool. I might join it. |
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| Shiroi Jigoku | Jun 19 2009, 11:30 PM Post #3 |
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Japanese Translators = Bad. Just a tip =P. Also, looking at their Hiragana/Katakana page, they don't actually teach you to write the letters. Not to mention some information on the differences. For example, Katakana is also used for visual impact and is necessary to read Japanese signs. |
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| Dracobolt | Jun 19 2009, 11:35 PM Post #4 |
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How do you mean? Stuff like Google translator where you just type in words and it spits out a bunch of kanji and there's no way to tell how accurate it is, particularly since you know that its accuracy is dubious ever since you tried to use it for languages you were much more familiar with just to make sure you were on the right track and it told you something that you knew was wrong and ever since you've not bothered with it except for doing funny translations into a foreign language and back into English to see what lulz might come up? Oh, and yeah, it's not a perfect site. I use a couple other places to supplement my understanding, but this is good for, as it says, learning vocabulary and stuff.
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| Shiroi Jigoku | Jun 19 2009, 11:43 PM Post #5 |
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Any online translator is bad. There are SOME good ones, but even then you can't replace a good ol' English-Japanese dictionary with a translator of any kind. I'd also like to say that they don't teach you what you can do with the Kanji, don't tell you how to write any letters, and this would be okay to just as a hobby, but if you seriously want to learn Japanese get a teacher. |
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| Dracobolt | Jun 19 2009, 11:46 PM Post #6 |
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Yeah, I know. I'm taking a Japanese class next semester. I just figured, hey, learn hiragana, figure out how to read and say common words, learn some basic sentence structure and grammar stuff, and that should help a lot in making that class doable.
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| Shiroi Jigoku | Jun 20 2009, 12:11 AM Post #7 |
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If you're gonna learn any of their scripts, just learn to read it. Otherwise you'll learn to write it wrong, and that makes a lot of difference, especially when calligraphy comes in. |
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| Dracobolt | Jun 20 2009, 12:35 AM Post #8 |
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Yeah, I can definitely see how that would be. The only writing I did was some bad attempts at making hiragana flash cards. XP I didn't have the first idea as to how to write those.
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| Calibrations | Jun 21 2009, 06:10 PM Post #9 |
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It's fun! |
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| Saturos | Dec 21 2015, 01:39 AM Post #10 |
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*looks around for a general Japanese learning topic* This one will do. *revives from the dead* So Wanikani, a pretty excellent website for learning Kanji and associated vocabulary/Japanese, is presently having a sale on its lifetime subscription for $199 USD (regular price is $300). That's still pretty expensive, but you can basically condense a ton of kanji learning into a year or two if you really go at it. It's helped me an absolute ton for actually living in Japan, plus playing games/reading things in Japanese. If you have the money, it's totes worth it! If you currently have a subscription, you can deduct what's remaining from your subscription off the price. |
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| Super Slash | Dec 21 2015, 01:47 AM Post #11 |
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Also if you're a member of TextFugu you can get an additional 50% off the price. Not sure you actually need to be a member though; try using the code "wanikani heart textfugu" at checkout (without quotes of course). |
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| Asphodel | Dec 21 2015, 01:49 AM Post #12 |
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That should have been on my Christmas list ;_____; My brother is about to go "wwoofing" in Japan, actually, and he's been spending the last year teaching himself Japanese. With fantastic results, actually. He has a very good command of the written aspects, at least. I'll have to ask him what resources he's been using, and I'll make sure to post them here, because I've been interested in learning for sure. |
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| Saturos | Dec 21 2015, 01:51 AM Post #13 |
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I'm pretty sure they explicitly said no coupons work on the lifetime subscription, but oh well. With that in mind, you might be better off getting the annual subscription instead and using the code Slash mentioned (you can still use it if you're a non-member), since that gives you a year's subscription for $50 USD. So you'd have to use four years of lifetime for that to work out evenly. Edited by Saturos, Dec 21 2015, 01:54 AM.
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| Kyarorain | Dec 21 2015, 02:07 AM Post #14 |
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http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/ is a good resource for Japanese grammar. There's an app version of it too so you can read it on your smartphone. http://imabi.net/ is another Japanese language learning site, but I haven't got round to reading it yet. I've been using Anki to learn kanji. It's a useful too. |
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| Dracobolt | Dec 21 2015, 03:07 AM Post #15 |
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I want Wanikani lifetime but I'm poor. ;_;
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| Dracobolt | Dec 22 2015, 09:30 AM Post #16 |
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Aw yeah, that discount code. Five bucks a month is fifty percent more doable with my finances.
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| Saturos | Jan 7 2016, 08:07 PM Post #17 |
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>tfw you are destroyed by wanikani 739 Apprentice 698 Guru 237 Master 416 Enlightened 2623 Burned THIS IS NOT BALANCED |
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| Hisui | Jan 7 2016, 09:28 PM Post #18 |
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Seccy "no fun allowed" Secundum
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| Saturos | Jan 15 2016, 09:15 PM Post #19 |
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>tfw Japanese example sentence has adorable story みちがわからなくて困っていたとき、知らない人ひとが親切に案内してくれたんです。それが今の彼女です。 |
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| Saturos | Jan 26 2016, 10:12 PM Post #20 |
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みちがわからなくて困っていたとき、知らない人ひとが親切に案内してくれたんです。それが今の彼女です。 Translation is, roughly: "When I was lost on a street I didn't know, a person I didn't know kindly helped guide me. That person's now my girlfriend." I'm working through the intermediate level Japanese course JET programme offers, which ends at N4 level. It's a lot easier than the N4 since it reviews the vocab for the test beforehand, but I'm scoring 85 and 90% first time on the monthly tests. Makes me consider going for the N3 in July instead of the N4, but I think the N3 might kick my ass. |
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