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(Re)Learning Japanese (reading only)

Name: INVISIBLE SKY MAGICIAN !lnkYxlAbaw 2007-03-17 8:29 ID:VrLd4FqS

Well I decided I'm going to (re)learn Japanese. However, I only want to be able to read and understand Japanese, I have no current need for writing or speaking Japanese (no doubt I'll still learn it on the way). Reason? Manga, TV and movie subtitles, and video games, mostly for reading. in before "WEEABOO", my automated response to that: "Fuck off."

Current proficiency:

Can read & write Hiragana 100%.
Can read & write Katakana 100%, and decent enough at translating it.
CANNOT read & write Kanji at all, outside of numbers.
Is aware of the difficulty of Japanese grammar, levels of politeness, particles etc... but does not know much about it.

Anyone have any decent Japanese-learning links or download resources (textbooks, audiobooks etc)?

I'm currently going through my old high school textbooks and a Genki Vol.1 e-book. I need a decent hardcopy Japanese dictionary though, know a good one?.

Thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-22 7:17 ID:8/CQNPfo

ok look, i studied japanese for 4 years in the states,two years in high school and two years at college, my major is even japanese studies/language.  i am currently living in japan going to the second best university in japan (waseda or keio, i'm not going to tell you wich one) on an exchange program for a year, i thought i was good at japanese before i came to japan, then i was like.... oh fuck.  learning another language is much much easier said than done, you have to be determined to do it, and if you are not determined enough to learn it to go to a country where it is the primary language then you are NEVER going to become fluent in the language.

>>45 i agree, after all i have been studying it is a bitch to read manga or play games, it takes forever because i have to look up a kanji every sentence or two. 

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