Why one should learn Japanese

Oh, sorry yer absolutly right, lets see.

http://www.humanjapanese.com/home.html

Here is the link, its the best way I ever used when learning a new language, beat any school class anyway. =P

As I mentioned above, unless they changed it since I used it first 20 chapters should be free and buying it is not to expensive either after that.

Hope someone finds it useful!

Well I already put this stuff up on the first post...

So uh, thanks again and a +rep, you deserve it...

Erm… Japanese schools teach english in their schools. They only learn the grammar behind it, but they have trouble pronunciating, communicating and listening to it. A Japanese student can Major in English but come to the US and realize they can't speak it fluently. It's all in the tongue if you ask me and lip movement. Pay attention how actors in Japanese dramas speak and how singers sing and you'll see what I mean. A person has to spend time around a languages native speakers to fully grasp it. Just because you learn it doesn't mean much. A field test is needed. And I'd rather be taught by a Japanese person than a book.

Actually English is one of the hardest languages in the world simply because certain words are spelt the same but pronounced differently.

for example...

Wind-Reads exactly how it looks

Wind-(pronounced with a long I) Is the act of twisting or turning somthing like winding a clock

Also some words are pronouced the same but can be spelled different

Color
and
Colour

See? Its all very confusing.

That's always interesting but not a very good example of why English may be the most difficult because it's so limited in examples. If you're going to look at that reason then Mandarin or Cantonese would be harder because of characters and tones. Same with Japanese, the same Kanji character can have a vast amount of different pronunciations/readings.

Intresting thread

Lets start learning.

Well, I've downloaded 'My Japanese Coach', an iPod app by Ubisoft, and I'm following through a few of the lessons every morning on the way to work. I'm slowly learning, it's not the best way of doing things but I don't want to commit all my spare time to learning it.

Has anyone used Rosetta Stone? How good is that? I'll definitely get that if it's effective, but ONLY if. It's a hell of a lot of money to waste if it's not that great.

the language itself sounds so beautiful, that alone is a good reason to spend your time.

atm I speak German, English, Indonesian fluently, and a bit of chinese due to my ancestry, I doubt I will have enough time to learn another language but if I do, prob japanese would be my choice.

My Japanese Coach - App Store

There's the link to the page. It's £2.99, although there's a LITE version for anyone who wants to give it a try first.

Thank you, and for that you receive a rep and your name placed on the contributors list...

Well, after few weeks of learning from namasensei, i gonna give my tkz to Kyomaster for starting this thread that pushed me into learning japanese. So tkz you for your effort Kyomaster

You are welcome...

I took japanese for a 3 years and have a better understanding of the culture differnce with my sensei and a few of her freinds. I say that you will better understand another person if you can communicate with them and have a better understanding of the direction of the conversation. plus along the way you will make good friends and better understanding of one another.

I will take note of that... Thanks for the information...

Here is a good link for anyone wanting to learn:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

Thanks for sharing a link with us, and for that you will be mentioned at our "Contributor's list"...

I already gave my rep for this day, but will comply on giving you one for the next 24 hours...

Thank you very much...

The biggest reason I started studying Japanese was because I didn't wanted to keep waiting for subbers and translators.

I'm Sorry but Kanji is Technically Chinese~ One brief history- Chinese Characters come from Picture in the early centuries then later simplified as time passes.

Japanese was introduced the Chinese Character Via Korea at the 4th Century A.D as the Japanese do not have a writing on their own, hence the Japanese using them in their Language.

I understand that Chinese character are hard as I, myself, is a Malaysian Chinese. We have to learn the strokes and the meaning and the pronunciation of it.. which is a pain in the ass.

Chinese Characters have more meaning than any other language in my opinion. It is because it symbolize the word. For example, Forest, which have a lot of trees in it. The character for forest is 森林. The character already tells you that there is a lot of trees in a forest. The reading maybe different as both Japanese and Chinese uses these Characters for their Language.
I don't mean to brag or anything. I am just telling you the facts.

Peace out.