Can a 14-year-old learn Japanese in a year?
I know a Lebanese guy who I met at UC Berkeley last summer who speaks Japanese.He was a bit older then me—in his early 20s—and he was just a normal Lebanese guy when I first met. He loved Japan, and he especially loved prime minister Shinzo Abe for some reason. He had a passion for learning Japanese, so he hung around the Japanese girls who started teaching him Japanese during breaks. During the night, he played around with Google Translation as well as more free lessons from Japanese girls.Then the miracle happened.Just two weeks later, he was able to communicate fluently in Japanese without any assistance. Not just that, he knew words we didn't even know, and had a much more civilized version of the language. He never stumbled around in any part of a sentence, and it was perfect, fluent Japanese, although with a bit of middle eastern accent. Everybody was shocked. I thought it was some kind of a hoax, that he knew the language before hand and had hidden the fact. However, it doesn't seem to be the case. He did what usually took over 12 years in just two weeks…His fetish about our prime minister never changed a bit, and every sentence included the word Abe. In fact I caught him in the the bathroom looking at the mirror and repeating “Watashi Wa Abe Souridaijin Ga Dai Sukidesu” creeping the hell out of me…Anyway, what I want to say is that even someone in his twenties can do this so as a 14 year old teenager, you would have even more possibilities then him.However, one issue is that although you would not have much problem with oral communication except for the consent of Respectful Grammar, which is shit and really confusing, the writing system is terribly complicated and you would probably not be able to master it in a short amount of time. Even native Japanese take over 15 years to master adult level written Japanese.Other than that, you'll be fine.
In Japanese, how do you say, "I am 14 years old"?
In Japanese, fourteen years old would be じゆうよんさい (Juu-yon-sai). To say it in a sentence, わたしはじゆうよんさいです。(Watashi wa juuyonsai desu)!
How do i say 'I am 14 years old in japanese?
I am-o fourteen years old-o
How long will it take for me to learn Japanese? I’m 15 years old and trilingual and I know a bit of hiragana and katakana.
If you are an English native, Japanese is rated at a minimum of 2200 hours of strict study, with it being noted as being the harder of comparable languages to learn. Thus, it’s more likely to take 5000 hours of instruction, and that can even be pretty generous.But “learn Japanese” is the wrong thing to say. What do you mean by “learn Japanese?” Do you mean acquiring native proficiency? Do you want to be able to ask for directions to the train station? Are you hoping to work in Japan? The specific degree to which you want to learn a language is important when looking at this. If you want native proficiency, it could take you between 20 and 100 years, depending on your study habits and environment, since this level of proficiency requires a phenomenal level of study to understand minor nuances and obscure references. If you want to be functionally proficient, that number goes down quickly depending on where you draw the “enough” line.
Would the Chinese ever invade Japan for resources?
What resources? What natural resources does Japan have that China doesn’t have?The real question ought to be, “Has Japan ever invaded China for its resources?”The answer to that is a resounding affirmative.Japan's Economic Expansion into China in World War Twoby James GrahamPublished: May, 2004Japan as a have-not country felt the distribution of natural resources in the world was unfair and in Manchuria and China proper saw its opportunity to right the balance.Manchuria rich in natural resources and sparsely populated had obvious advantages for a densely populated and resource-poor Japan. Amongst Manchuria's resources coveted by Japan were iron, coking coal, soybeans, salt and above all land, all severely lacking within the Japanese empire in 1930. This contrasted favourably with Japan's mountainous terrain of which only twenty percent was arable.… the empire was no longer self-sufficient in food, a problem expansion into Manchuria and China proper could solve. Population growth also left Japan with a surplus agricultural population and many willing emigrants… however these emigrants were not welcome… both the United States and the British dominions actively discriminated against them. This… made expansion into Manchuria even more attractive. Manchuria… could also provide Japan with its Lebensraum to settle its surplus population.The answer is just the opposite. China did not covet Japan’s resources. Japan coveted China’s resources. China did not invade Japan. Japan invaded China. Japan’s war of territorial expansion against China, led to the death of 50 to 80 million Chinese.What makes this brutal history even harder to forget, is that Japan is still at it. Japan is currently illegally occupying the China’s Diaoyutai Islands, and calling them “The Senkakus”. The Diaoyutai Islands are believed to hold vast petroleum reserves.
Can a 13-year-old child learn Russian, Japanese, and French at the same time?
It’s probably beneficial if you can do one of those languages at school (most likely French, as it is often offered at schools) because that means that you have extra school-time to study the language and you have a teacher who is (hopefully) competent at that language, and gives you resources to study that language.As for the other 2 languages, I must admit it is a bit ambitious and you have to be really committed to learning both if you really want to succeed.I have a friend who can speak English (and Hindi and Marathi) fluently, is learning French at school (but is far ahead of grade level, as am I), AND is pursuing Japanese on her own time.That in and of itself is quite an undertaking, and she is really invested in Japan, the Japanese and their culture (know that this involves more than just liking anime/manga or Japanese cuisine)According to said friend, consuming media in Japanese (with english subtitles to start) is beneficial (so you can try anime) but you have to put in effort on your own too.Find a good website that helps with the basics. Japanese has multiple scripts which all need to be learnt. Even in there, a lot of characters can have multiple meanings, and interpretations.It’s worth noting that me (and my friends) are 15, but the friend in question has been learning French since 6th grade (for school) and Japanese since she was 13 (your age).Taking on a third language is inadvisable but if you think you can do it, practise is key.Also remember you can’t skip the boring stuff.You won’t be able to understand much if you don’t spend hours upon hours looking at the thousands of kanji characters.If you are going to dedicate this large amount of time in learning 3 languages, I would advise that you also think about going into linguistics as a large amount of time you could spend studying other things will be spent on studying languages.Be prepared to make sacrifices in other subjects too, languages take a long time.Good luck with your endeavours in learning languages,Aryan.
What are the reasons why japanese came to the philippines?
beautifur peopre and beautifur prace.
How cruel were the Japanese in WW2?
Warning: NSFW pictures belowI believe that the cruelty of the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War 2 is severely understated.When they first invaded China in 1937, they went around the city of Nanking (former capital of China) killing and raping women and children. They had contests to see who could kill the most civilians with a sword.The Nanking Massacre was disastrous. It is reported that somewhere between 50,000 and 300,000 people lost their lives during the barbaric and brutal invasion. It was six weeks of pure horror for the unarmed populace of the city.But what followed was even more evil and monstrous. The Japanese decided to experiment on the victims in what is known as Unit 731. The activities that went on in there included vivisection (live dissection), germ warfare attacks such as dropping plague infected fleas from the sky onto major cities, frostbite testing that involved dipping various appendages into freezing water. After this, according to testimony from a Japanese officer, which said that it "was determined after the 'frozen arms, when struck with a short stick, emitted a sound resembling that which a board gives when it is struck”, ice was chipped away and the limb was doused in water.They would also force syphilis-infected individuals to have sexual intercourse with non-infected individuals to transmit the disease. According to a prison guard…“Infection of venereal disease by injection was abandoned, and the researchers started forcing the prisoners into sexual acts with each other. Four or five unit members, dressed in white laboratory clothing completely covering the body with only eyes and mouth visible, handled the tests. A male and female, one infected with syphilis, would be brought together in a cell and forced into sex with each other. It was made clear that anyone resisting would be shot."There was also rape and forced pregnancy, weapon testing and other experiments such as starvation, high-pressure chambers, temperature experimentation, placed into centrifuges and spun until death, injection with animal blood, lethal doses of X-rays, chemical testing in gas chambers, injection with sea water and being burned or buried alive.And those were only the crimes against civilians. Imagine what they got away with in POW camps.Awful, so awful.