halp!
pretty fluent in my Japanese reading, writing and speaking, but when people talk i cant understand 3/4 of what is being said. Its like they don't use some particles or something
eg 飯を食べことが好きです becomes 飯食べこと好きです
Listening is probably one of my stronger points, you get better from listening and more listening, you won't get this from studying by yourself, or talking very rarely in a class with kids who suck at Japanese.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 4:38
>>48
true
i actually noticed it while watching a documentary.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 8:30
How do I learn bushu?
my teacher said that we must know all radicals of kanji for exam.
this is nightmare mode!!! :(
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Anonymous2008-04-01 20:40
>>50
This probably covers most of the important ones 廾廴弋辷癶亅丶个｜忄犭彳氵冫勹冂匚凵冂厂广冖宀亠
Learn those and you'll be fine I guess? Do you got to learn their name as well? Or just how to write them? Heisig I know focuses heavily on radicals, but by the time you learn all radicals you'll know all kanji as it applies everything as you learn it.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 5:54
what the shit does たん mean?
just another title like ちゃん, くん、さん ect
im angry because i couldn't find the answer in any text book
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Anonymous2008-04-04 16:55
I'm trying to understand the conditional tense and "if".
(this is all self-study, so I've no text books to work with, just my own observations of how I think it works):
チーズケーキを持ったならば, 食べたら
If I had cheese cake, I would eat it.
I'm probably doing it wrong. Though, really I'm confused when I should be using nara and naraba (I see 'nara' used for single nouns and 'naraba' for phrases... but "必要" (hitsuyou - necessary) doesn't follow this rule (hitsuyou naraba...).
Also, out of curiosity, is there anyway to say "or" in Japanese? It's not a particle so much as I know.
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Anonymous2008-04-04 17:09
>>56
I may as well tack on one more question to that:
Do Japanese use "if, then" statements (often, anyway)? If so, would I use "dakara" for then?
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Anonymous2008-04-04 17:46
>>56
Doesn't work like that
What you're saying is essentially
If I held cheese cake, then if eat.
A better way to say it might be
[私は]チーズケーキがあれば、食べます
>>57
All the time, but だから is not for "if then"
It's more along the lines of because
I like X because X is fun, so in other words, reasonからresult.
The だ on だから is only there for na-adjectives and nouns.
Read the link I gave, it goes over the really basic stuff like this too
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Anonymous2008-04-04 18:09
>>58
ah, thanks. I suppose I should have known to refer back to that site.
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Anonymous2008-04-04 21:22
>>56
Just a general comment, but for self-study especially you should have a textbook to help you. Tae Kim's website is fine but for a deeper understanding I once again recommend a textbook.
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Anonymous2008-04-05 5:11
>>56
か = or
there are other ways but I'm too lazy to think of any.
eg:
りんご”か”いちご apple or strawberry
ittekuru is what people usually say when they're going somewhere but will be back. i think brb is much more modern lingo than that though, so dont really know.
>>70 >>72
wa is used mostly for women
na is used mostly for men
naa expresses motion
(I don't recommend using these two at the bottom, you might sound like an anime fag, but they're good to know, they're also mostly used by men)
zo emphasis on one's opinion or judgment
ze elicits an agreement
I'm sure there's more but I can't really think of any now
I was wondering if you had any advice on learning the language?
I've started, and currently only know basic introductions and 10 hiragana characters.
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Anonymous2008-04-10 23:33
>>78
Figdell, I am not studying Japanese, but I saw an excellent book titled "Japanese Grammar" in the Barron's Notes series for $6.99. I'm sure that if you read it, it will help you out quite a bit.
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Anonymous2008-04-11 5:27
>>78
learn all hiragana and katakana, and learn it well, then go to http://www.guidetojapanese.org/ and read the whole entire site, then/when/if you complete this, come back for new device as this should keep you busy