Its no longer enough for me to read manga translated/scanlated into english now I´m actually trying to learn japanese (at least to read it and understanding)
I was just now ordering these books from amazon.jp: 😮 😮 😮

1 of EASY KANJI？A Basic Guide to Writing Japanese
By: 金田 富士彦 (著)
￥ 1,000

1 of 漢字を勉強しましょう - Let's Learn Kanji: An Introduction to Radicals, Components, and 250 Very Basic Kanji
By: 三田村 康子 (著), et al
￥ 3,500

1 of Let's Learn Hiragana (Kodansha's Children's Classics)
By: Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura (著)
￥ 1,642

Is anybody as big a fool as I am ? 🤣

This is Gutti. He was born 04.05.2005 at my house and we are all his slaves...

why? I think that's great! And you're paying $$, it shows that you really want to learn it! So you better not give up glares

lol, i'm exactly where you are...

I've got most of those books too 🙂 hirigana, katakana, kanji*. For me, if i can pick it up and apply it to manga, then it'd be awesome. I could help with translating considering there are so few japanese translators... (why is that?) and also I can read it directly from the raws!!!.

sticks nerd sign on himself 🤣

*cannot be totally sure, i'd need to recheck again.

Oh, yes.
And I refuse to be called a fool! 🤣

I'm also trying to learn chinese.

I would advise you to search for some programs helping with learning japanese. I've got two, but for chinese. It's a great help.

Well, good luck!

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look @ all the support you have!!

I, however, am not learning any languages, because my other school work is bunched up enough... And mandarin is more useful (in my case)

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Oh, yes.
And I refuse to be called a fool! 🤣

I'm also trying to learn chinese.

I would advise you to search for some programs helping with learning japanese. I've got two, but for chinese. It's a great help.

Well, good luck!

As a chinese guy i'd love to pick this up (i'm too westernised) just so i can argue against my folks well. But i don't find the language appealing, nor use it much, and most self teach books are awful, but if you know of any (cantonese ones), give them a shout plz 😀

huh?? Those programs actually work?

Good luck, Sigurd.

It's going to take you years to get a grasp of it.

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i got the sounds naturally from reading manga and watching the kar' in anime... for kanji i found a website and im keeping a notebook (my classmates keep asking me to write their name in japanese -_-' )...
this is the second lanquage im learning this way, and im getting pretty good, so i cant call u a fool....

btw it only took me 2 years to learn how to speak and understand, and im reading quite well after 3 months.
so it doesnt take years (for me, at the very least, with my 5 languages)

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Well, I have one I got with my book and it's very helpful.
Haven't really checked the other one, but it looks good.

If anyone wants it, PM me and I will give you a link and explain everything, cause the portal you can download it from doesn't have an english version (only polish).
It's completely legal, virus scanned etc etc.

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... cause the portal you can download it from doesn't have an english version (only polish).
It's completely legal, virus scanned etc etc.

Anyone studying to learn polish? lol

I assume the program is in english though?

Yes, it has a lot of language versions, including english one.
You don't really have to dl it from there, I could send it in an e-mail (it's small)

Not studying polish. Using it for almost 22 years already 🤣

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props on giving it a solid shot. If your interested in learning spoken japanese, I've heard they're alot of language learning podcasts out there for anybody in the itunes/ipod revolution

japanese for busy people

Rosetta stone

I bet these will help.

Life is tough......but it's tougher if you're stupid.
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I'm taking a japanese course in uni for the same reason. Plus I want to go to Japan.

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