Konbanwa, good evening!!
I'm positive I've got the basics in the bag but lets go over it!
so in the complete idiots guide to conversational Japanese it introduces you the language.It also gives you a guide on how to use the book but ill break it down. The first chapter which is just to inspire you to have confidence in yourself and what your learning! in other words gambate ne! good luck! and have fun that the whole point is to learn something new and if you don't find fun and interesting ways to do it you'll loose interest fast (believe me i know).
So i started learning Japanese using only romanji (the romanization of the language) in other words letters, the ones we use every day and not kana which consists of hiragana,katakana and kanji.
I personally think that, that was my mistake to start that way
because now i see to go further in my studies i have to go back and start learning kana so take my word for it even if you only want to learn conversational Japanese it will come in handy and you will find yourself needing it.Next i learned the vowel sounds they are a[ah] e[bet]i[he] o[bore]and u like in[cool]. The Japanese only have 102 syllables possible so its easy to learn the pronunciation. Just remember that its a monotone language and that each syllable should have the same length when being said so practice reading aloud.
but heres a link to a very catchy way to learn some of the syllables :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMkJAzbWQc&feature=related
cant get the song out my head lol.
there are some tricky sounds like the r that sounds like l and d at the same time, something like the Spanish r put not the same.
also tsu, fu, ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, y and N. They can be quite tricky for a native English speaker but thank fully since i speak both English and Spanish i find a middle point were i can us them to help my pronunciation ^^.Even though some times i forget and i use a very Puertorrican accent in my Japanese which makes me sound like a gaijin/outsider. *very important depending on what you say the meaning can change example ki-te listen and kit-te stamp so speak passively and don't stress the syllables depending on context i'm sure you'll be understood. ^^
this link will take you to the about.com page
that has a very use full hirangana lesson:
http://japanese.about.com/library/blhira.htm
so thats it for now arigatou for reading
ja
mata ne ! ^_-
I'm positive I've got the basics in the bag but lets go over it!
so in the complete idiots guide to conversational Japanese it introduces you the language.It also gives you a guide on how to use the book but ill break it down. The first chapter which is just to inspire you to have confidence in yourself and what your learning! in other words gambate ne! good luck! and have fun that the whole point is to learn something new and if you don't find fun and interesting ways to do it you'll loose interest fast (believe me i know).
So i started learning Japanese using only romanji (the romanization of the language) in other words letters, the ones we use every day and not kana which consists of hiragana,katakana and kanji.
I personally think that, that was my mistake to start that way
because now i see to go further in my studies i have to go back and start learning kana so take my word for it even if you only want to learn conversational Japanese it will come in handy and you will find yourself needing it.Next i learned the vowel sounds they are a[ah] e[bet]i[he] o[bore]and u like in[cool]. The Japanese only have 102 syllables possible so its easy to learn the pronunciation. Just remember that its a monotone language and that each syllable should have the same length when being said so practice reading aloud.
but heres a link to a very catchy way to learn some of the syllables :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMkJAzbWQc&feature=related
cant get the song out my head lol.
there are some tricky sounds like the r that sounds like l and d at the same time, something like the Spanish r put not the same.
also tsu, fu, ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, y and N. They can be quite tricky for a native English speaker but thank fully since i speak both English and Spanish i find a middle point were i can us them to help my pronunciation ^^.Even though some times i forget and i use a very Puertorrican accent in my Japanese which makes me sound like a gaijin/outsider. *very important depending on what you say the meaning can change example ki-te listen and kit-te stamp so speak passively and don't stress the syllables depending on context i'm sure you'll be understood. ^^
this link will take you to the about.com page
that has a very use full hirangana lesson:
http://japanese.about.com/library/blhira.htm
so thats it for now arigatou for reading
ja
mata ne ! ^_-
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