How to start learning japanese

I want to start learning japanese, does anyone have any good tips on how i should start?

Buy a book and start.

Fuck cunt arse wank

don't

Make a new thread on a question that has been addressed 8928923 times already.

Go to a language school to learn the basic Japanese grammar.

Become a weeaboo faggot.

you're lucky. today you can easily make access to Japanese entertainment contents via youtube. those footages will help you a lot.

I dont know whats happened to /lang/
I fully expected >>7
It goes in pretty much every Japanese beginner thread.
But if you really want to learn it, it will take a few years of dedication and work.
You can start of by buying a book such as 'Beginners Japanese' of the teach yourself series. I used it, and along with what>>8 said, you'll begin to figure it out and the sentances will just start flowing from your mouth.
If you're a weeaboo, you'll proberbly end up either giving up or being really dedicated, but good luck either way.

>>9
There are hundreds of the same japshit in lang. Is a new thread really necessary?
Fuck off

>>10
it's you that must fuck out of here.

>>11
Oh, I'm sorry, but it seems that people who do not capitalize take precedence in that.

i've been told that Rosetta Stone is a great program for japanese, and i've got the ap installed and all 3 lvls of japanese for it on my pc, but no usb headset.  i'm also probably snowed in until next weekend.  anyone have any ideas for other interactive programs that may be helpful?

>>10

i agree.
japanese= useless, shitty language which has butchered the chinese language.
it needs to fuck off.

*sigh* wish people would actually search through the past threads but anyway
Rosetta stone pretty much sucks for Japanese. Sure you can pick up a few phrases here and there but it's not a path to fluency at all. You can use it for practice but really its kinda crap.

How to start learning Japanese:
Method 1:
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/about
Just do it. It's a bit hardcore but it will get you to fluency no doubt about it. But going against what he says learn the Kana first it helps alot. Kana= Hiragana/Katakana. You can take Hiragana/Katakana courses here: http://www.iknow.co.jp/courses

Method 2:
Grab a torrent of a Japanese textbook or actually buy the book. Work through the book. Now your done with the book congrats your at the level of a first year Japanese student. Now start reading Native materials and trying to figure out what you don't understand. Learn what you don't know. Now grab another book this time intermediate (might actually have to buy this) work through this and you should be pretty knowledgeable in Japanese. From then on its all just reading/writing/speaking practice get as much as you can. Also with this method use http://www.ichi2.net/anki/ a spaced retention flashcard program. Input vocabulary, grammar examples etc etc. What ever you want to learn. Go here to pick up some vocab or learn the hiragana/katakana: http://www.iknow.co.jp/courses
Its 100% free.
(I recommend Genki, and there are torrents for it. The intermediate level your going to actually have to buy)

Method 3:
Take classes, supplemented with lots of reading/speaking practice. Just because you took classes doesn't mean your gonna be fluent if you don't practice at all.

Also even if you decide not to go with the All Japanese All The Time method you should read his blog. He has a lot of inspirational types of messages and stuff that should help. Also you can take some parts of his method and combine it with another.

Notes: Personally I'm doing all of the methods >_> I'm taking classes, learning on my own and using some parts of AJATT. I'm still a beginner. These methods are mainly what i see people doing or recommend.

Some links to other threads
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1198482943
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1208400080

Heh I'm surprised I even wrote this...

>>15

learn real language or gtfo.

>>16
This isn't just some bs I made up. Like I said its what most people who are fluent seem to be recommending. Well not Method 1, that's just what most people on 4chan seem to recommend, but definitely Method 2 and 3. Of course these aren't the only method just what I've seen. Plus you don't have to be a master at something to suggest how to start learning.

>>17

no, i meant
learn a real language
as in
japanese is a pile of shit.
not that your methods are questionable.

>>14
Japanese isn't even from the same family as Chinese

0/10

>>19
I think he meant butchered the Chinese characters? Despite his retarded phrasing, he's right. Those fags and their damn squiggles ruined perfectly good 汉字

>>20

對呀!

>>20
And Mandarin fags ruined a perfectly good 漢.

>>20
And Mandarin fags ruined a perfectly good 漢.

>>23

i know 繁体 and 简体 but i always write and use 繁体 because it looks nicer, and to write with 草書 is an art.

>>24
idort

>>25
lol what's idort?

>>26
Oh, sorry. /v/ meme that anybody who owns both a PSP and DS is an idort. Seeing as you use both 繁体字 and 简体字, I think you count as a 汉字 idort.

>>27

i said i always write and use 繁体. i didnt say i use 简体.