some one help me lurn japanese
Posted: Oct 26, 2006 10:21am
Will some one please help me? i want to be able to read my manga in its origenal japanese.
There are both some really good books and sites, but right now I'd recommend guidetojapanese.org and looking it up on Wikipedia. japanese.about.com is also a good place to go, but it won't give you nearly as much practice as guideotjapanese will.
guidtojapanese.org also has a bunch of sites that'll help, too (like jgram and Jim Breen's WWWJDIC), but he won't let you off the hook when it comes to learning hiragana and katakana so you get a lot of practice with it as well... and kanji.
As for books, I'd try Making Out in Japanese (they only do that in the end anyway), which is basically a casual phrasebook for street Japanese, which has a few good cultural notes as well... And if you have the money, Genki 1 and 2 is a good way to build your verbal and written vocabulary.
Well, you'd have to be able to read and understand the Japanese anyway. Either way, it's not an easy process, so you have to be really committed. Oh yeah, and watching lots of anime in Japanese will let you pick up patterns and words.
Hope this helped?