I want to learn Japanese but i shoot myself (imaginary) sometimes cause im stuck with Vietnamese.

I'm still learning. Like Gan, I can understand simple spoken Japanese (and a bit that's more complex) but reading and writing beyond a relatively low number of kanji is simply not within my current realm of ability. One day, I hope it is, but that's a long time from now.

I can read most school-related manga though, just because the language is typically simple and filled with statements and colloquialisms that I've picked up in random places (yes, including anime).

I may be moving to Tokyo in Spring though, so I should probably be studying more.

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It already took me years just to learn basic English 🤣
I learnt Mandarin a long time ago but the Chinese characters were so hard to understand (and they kinda similar or even the same with Japanese's kanji right?) so I also gave it up. 🤢

In the future probably I will learn Japanese because I am so into Japanese mangas and cultures 😃 It will be in the future though 🙄 Just a plan

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I want to learn Japanese so I pick out bits of phrases from animes and practice kinda helps me. Plus there's the Net so I can just go search for gramar lessons. 😀

hey learning any language like Japanese is hard without a teacher
i have been learning Japanese for 3 years and i would not have been able to learn anything without my superb teachers. but hey i admire you for knowing Vietnamese in the first place.

kanji is the hardest damn thing i have had to learn to read since i first learned to read. no offense but in california the closest thing i have had to read that was close to kanji is the elven script used by tolkien in the lord of the rings saga and it really is hard to read without the hirigana on top

I wish I choose Japanese in high school... instead I took Spanish just for the heck of taking a 2nd language for my high school diploma... I speak Vietnamese fluently... just can't write/read it, rofl.

I'm thinking of getting a tutor to help me.. But, then, I'd rather learn Chinese first, so I understand what my friends say xD.

I took Japanese classes but I've forgotten a lot of stuff. would have helped a lot if I had Japanese friends that I could practice with. 🙁

english was easy on beginner level, kinda harder in advanved level.

but chinese is hell since beginning till end, even though it doesnt has grammar, but it requires lot of memorizing, hell a lot "tone" for each words. I gave up long time ago.

from what I see japanese is like english its not hard at beginner level , not sure bout advanced.

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Yep, I've been self-studying for quite some time now. So far, I've memorised most of the kana's (mostly katakana though), and learned over 700 words. I can somewhat understand a normal conversations and even reply to some. Still a long way to go though. Wondering if I should bother learning the 1000 kanji like grade-schoolers...I only know a handful >.>

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I can read Kanji more than I can read Katakana. I pretty much fail at Furigana. I guess I could understand if one speaks very, very slowly but I doubt it...and when I speak, I sound too sad. 🙁

I memorized the hiragana with the help of a book called (really creative title) "remembering the hiragana". although parts of that book aren't helpful at all, like when it tells you to remember an otter throwing darts at no-parking signs... wtf 😕

Anyway I thought I was all smart for learning hiragana because I figured that was harder than katakana, but then I learned that hiragana is like "little kiddie writing" in Japan... that kind of bummed me out

I can recognise some kanjis, and i'm getting pretty decent at katakana... the only things I really have trouble with are 1) when a kanji is all small and blurry and hard to see, and 2) telling apart the つ and the っ

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I've said to myself " I'm going to learn japanese " a lot of times already, and every time i grow tired because it's way different from spanish and english,

Actually the pronounciations of japanese are a lot like spanish, not all the variations on vowels like english has... so its simpler.

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I've been self-studying for a while now, I do all the translations for my scanlation group so I'm at a reasonable level. My advice:

1. Get your kana down straight away. It's not so hard as long as you go back and revise them. I've found that a lot of manga magazines have furigana (kana readings to help you read kanji) so as soon as you know all your kana, you can start reading raw manga with the help of a dictionary. The sooner you know all the kana the better, because relying on romaji is kinda bad.

2. Learn a little bit, often. Use lots of different books and resources to get a wide range of views on different topics. There are a lot of free podcasts (check iTunes) to help learning Japanese, I started off with Japanesepod101 and there are billion of those. That way you also get pronunciation right too.

3. Force yourself to read raw texts to keep your reading skills up. Otherwise you'll just forget a lot of it. (There are loads of places to download raw manga online, or subscribe to Japanese manga magazines.)

4. Nothing beats having a teacher if you're serious... but you can make a very good start with just self-learning.

Just put time into it and keep exposing yourself to the language through anime and manga, you'll pick up stuff quite quickly. がんばってね、みんな ^＿^

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I would love to learn japanese. I know some phrases and stuff from doing karate and the anime on the net. If I do learn it, I would have to work on the reading and writing part because speaking it is so much easier. It's the same as Chinese because I can speak it, but I can't read or write it.

i want to learn japaneese so much because it's a cool language and they're great voice actors who are japaneese.