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Recently, as of yesterday, I managed to memorize the hiragana, reading and writing wise. After about a week and a half no less since the class started.

Also, I dont like anime and have zero interest in it. And yes my class thinks im strange.

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why don't you learn something useful instead, preferably something that would increase your pay

Who is your favourite idol group?

Good for you, but keep it in the general, please

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HerbalSkyrim posted...

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Reis posted...

why don't you learn something useful instead, preferably something that would increase your pay

Meh.

MarthGoomba posted...

Who is your favourite idol group?

???

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Reis posted...

why don't you learn something useful instead, preferably something that would increase your pay

Hurrrrrrrrr
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CommonJoe posted...

HerbalSkyrim posted...

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CommonJoe posted...

I also have a translation app on my phone.


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nativengine posted...

I also have a translation app on my phone.

Eh more like google translate. I can read the first part of the alphabet (and this can say the words) but I only actually know a few words.

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CommonJoe posted...

Eh more like google translate. I can read the first part of the alphabet (and this can say the words) but I only actually know a few words.

Good on you bro, Im your typical Canadian/American so I know French and Spanish. My buddy was in the Navy and jokes about learning Japanese was the hardest thing he did during his time there.

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HerbalSkyrim posted...

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Don't forget the Kanji, or else you're just asking if they speak Japan! The point might get across, but sounds more than a little silly. Incidentally, I went out for sushi lately and the restaurant made the opposite mistake, offering a sushi roll that spoke the Norwegian language.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAMl-0pVAAIXdeM.jpg:large

To the topic creator, Japanese will kick your ass on a daily basis and will inevitably wear you down, but even when it gets tough, just keep hanging in there and make it a daily routine no matter how exhausted and frustrated you get. Learning to enjoy the learning process rather than purely exercising your willpower for the end goal of whatever you want to learn Japanese for can be pretty essential since it's a serious commitment and will likely take quite a few years before you have any semblance of mastery over it.

Little by little, things will start to make sense. At which point, they'll stop making sense again and you realize just how little you know and it will kick you in the ass again, but you get used to that routine after the first twenty or so times. And then you meet with some Japanese friends and the only thing you can muster is a weak ... every now and then inbetween your sobs.

Or, wait, maybe that's just me.

CommonJoe posted...

Recently, as of yesterday, I managed to memorize the hiragana, reading and writing wise. After about a week and a half no less since the class started.

Also, I dont like anime and have zero interest in it. And yes my class thinks im strange.

When do you learn to squeal?
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Orange of Doom posted...

Little by little, things will start to make sense.

Actually they make a lot of sense rather quickly. While I havent quite learned anything about kanji as yet Ive been perusing a japanese dictionary app I have that scrolls random words for you to look at, and ive started to pick some stuff up.

Im even starting to recognize some katakana even though I havent started on that either.

Im sure there will be a point where progress will slow but thus far nope

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Feetish posted...

When do you learn to squeal?

I learned that from my uncle

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