Can anyone help teach me Japanese?
I’ve helped tutor some high schools in Japanese for a few years now, and I personally enjoy teaching the beautiful language!Considering your question, you probably don’t have much knowledge on the language. You should be able to find many lessons and articles on Japanese, such as the writing system and basic phrases. If you truly are interested, you can check out many online sites that aid in beginning Japanese learners.The very first step to learning Japanese, I recommend, is the two fundamental writing systems, katakana and hiragana. These two will be your best friends in your first steps through the door of 日本語 (Nihongo).WHAT I RECOMMENDNow, I never get the chance to save people from this because they either don’t listen or they’ve already grown too accustomed to the flawed technique. I highly, highly encourage you to learn the 50 characters (+han/dakuten) without the use of mnemonics or associating the characters to Latin letters. I consider this a flawed learning style, especially for English-native speakers, because they tend to never actually learn the Japanese characters. They only memorise the association of their language to a symbol that they need to visualise that can trigger that association, not the actual kana and its pronunciation. You don’t pass your 26 English letters to another language or make mnemonics to their sound; thus, you shouldn’t do that with any other language. You will hurt your fluency and make learning it difficult and frustrating. Yes, learning a language will be challenging, but to make it intuitive and actually useful, you want to get into the habit of segregating your native language from your learning the second.
How do you say "can you help me?" in Japanese?
Can you help me? 助けてくれますか？ tasukete kuremasu ka? "Do you wanna go on a date?" デートしたいですか? de-to shitai desu ka?
Can you help me decipher my name from Japanese to English?
The 'ye' part of your name is not in the Japanese syllabry. Are you sure it's not really 'Sanae'? It's pronounced like 'Sanaye' There are probably a lot of different combinations of kanji that you could use to make your name, but if I put it into my computer, this is what comes up; 早苗 早 'sa' means early 苗 'nae' means seedling It means 'sprouts of rice' It might not be what your mother had in mind when she named you. If you knew the Kanji then I could find a meaning for you.
Any fluent Japanese speakers out there ? I need help !?
Umm...I would like some help about a few Japanese vocabulary that I don't quite understand... What are the differences between "Domo Arigato", "Arigato Gozaimasu", and "Arigato Gazaimashita"? Also, when do you use "desu" and "arimasu"? What are the differences between the two? And I think that "Onegaishimasu" (or just Onegai) means "please", or am I mistaken? And if "Onegaishimasu" means "please", then what does "Kudasai" mean? And when asking one if they speak English, do you just say, "(Kimi Wa) Eigo Ga Hanasemasuka?" or can you add a "desu ka" at the end? Or is the "desu ka" not needed/implied? And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and...Ahhh!!!! Arigato =D
Can someone help me with conjugating Japanese verbs? Preferably the irregulars?
Ok so I'm studying Japanese on my own for now and I'm to the point where my books are just giving me lists of already conjugated verbs and this annoys me because I want to be able to do it myself. Can someone give me examples and how to's of the different verb types and forms. Maybe even point out a few irreluars? I understand words like "hanasu" and "taberu" but what about "benkyoosuru" and "au" or "rakudaisuru"? Could someone clear this up for me?
Is there any place online where I can learn Japanese that is 100% free?
Hey, I am a university student completely my minor in japanese and i would recommend texts known as "genki". I only started last year but i have already been to japan and communication problems were minimal. What i want to warn you of, is that trying to teach yourself purely from dictionaries is quite dangerous. I offered to help an american friend "get better" at jap, (he had been teaching himself) but when we started talking he had taught himself allllllll wrong. The japanese language has many "forms" which make it easy enough to learn (unlike them trying to learn english) but there are certain grammatical structures that must be adhered to-- i.e verb at the end of the sentence@@--this friend of mine was simply stringing words together for example "i want water" in japanese should be mizu ga hoshii desu--or---mizu o nomitai water (i want) water (i want to drink) and he was coming out with hoshii mizu (want water)--i was able to understand because i now know the structures,,,but chances are a japanese person would laugh :) anyways its a long winded answer, but i recommend those texts, and if you can't get these texts straight away-- find a site( there are soooo many) to learn hirigana and katakana--once you can read at least these 2 forms of japanese you are well on your way to being able to utilise a lot more of the web's resources. If you have any other questions you can ask me--just know that i have studied japanese for only a year--so my responses may be limited if they aren't conversational and necessary communicational questions!! ganbattane!! (good luck)
People say japanese are polite.-- are they really???
some people say, the japanese people are polite, well-mannered, tend to be silent etc. But others say they are often nonexpressive (make you feel nothing bad), insincere (theyr word is different from their heart), dont look straight, very stubborn in their mind, and if you are a foreigner, although you wont feel, they can never accept you from the heart. In all they will show very good behavious outwardly but in their heart it is very different. Anyone have any experience or knowledge about it. If the heart and word are different its very dangerous -- specially for foreigners who mightnot understand their language... any impression.. opinion