Hey guys!^^ Been doing anything interesting recently. Well I did something and that’s learning Japanese… The more I learn it, the more I figure out how this language is HARD!
Especially on the way I learn it. But I do have a strong motivation and I am try to learn it even up to 2 hours a day, so I know that I can do it!!
After I learned both katakana and hiragana (and about 50 Kanji, but that’s something else) I went to actually test my reading. And it is not only to learn for example hiragana. No no, I was practicing reading it felt like I am in first grade of elementary school again learning to read alphabet. xD And on top of that, both of these have about the same number of symbols, so I had to learn then those as well. Not all, but those that I need.
So yeah, I did find an awesome site where there are some Japanese stories for kids and they are written in hiragana (with only few of simple kanji). And after each page there are written all new words in the story, so by the way I also learn words and below the text in hiragana there is one in English. Though there isn’t one in Romanji of Japanese, but that’s better because then I really have to check to I read well.
And I also use a site where there is a nice list for learning Kanji and how they should be learned by class and also some lections of Japanese, like some grammatical ones or the recent huge one that I was learning how to say “I love you” in Japanese. That simple phrase takes like several pages in my notebook to learn, with all the extra stuff behind it.
And after some time of practicing, it is getting better and better, thank God. The problem is that it is almost impossible to find pure texts only in katakana, so I have to find some names and titles to practice that, lol. And also I learned one other problem. I have been the whole time learning advanced kanji. That one is pure hardness, it takes me several hours to learn several of them and after that I forget them and have to learn again as well. But I now learn both these and much simpler ones.
The problem that comes with Japanese (and that should everyone watch out) is that there are multiple words which are written the same in romanji, but actually have two different meanings. Like “Shi”. Believe me, you will find SO many translations and phrases with that, or word “Sun” or “Love” have also different words to say in Japanese, and by that I also mean different kanji.
On a positive not, after a while I have understand how to read and think of kanji not only by learning it by always writing and trying to remember. Each symbol has a meaning in a kanji, especially the more complex and advanced ones. But I will leave that for sometimes later. Let’s just say that Japanese have a good sense of logic and thinking.^^
Ooh, and if anyone wants or learns Japanese, I can give you some advices and such. Maybe some of you will also take real classes one day or soon, which is definitely an awesome thing.
I can’t here, but I do try and made plans to do it on my own. :)
Definitely do not think of this post as something as I want to brag about. NO! I want to actually help you all in these small tips which I learn and which you can all easily know that might come in handy. And also I share this with all you because you guys here are one of the motivations that keep me on learning it. So I want to thank you all for that and that's why I share it. I could as well not write all this and keep it to myself. But no, I want to share helpful things with my otaku friends as well.
And oh yeah, I will post in the next post some interesting things (trivia) about Japanese language! :D
