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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 2007-03-28 8:59 ID:2sJ/3Rc6

ok, look, japanese is considered a hard language because it is.  i would have to say that chinese and japanese are the hardest languages that are spoken by mass ammounts of people, ya call in the "experts" but seriously, i've studied boh, and without living in the country you will not become fluent, and even then it is hard, i've been in japan 5 years and china 4.  come one, stop thinking you know everyhing, because you never will, i doubt that there are many experts on asian languages on 4chan unless they were born in asia.

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