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Originally Posted by Daniel
My opinion on this is to learn it in the same way a child would learn it in normal life - by observation and attempted communication. I`m very much against textbooks until you are skilled enough to read them in Japanese. If you have to learn that, say, inu=dog=that 4 legged animal over there, then you have an extra step that actually makes it harder to remember. You should never learn a language through the word=word method. That just makes it that much harder to speak it fluently - everytime you speak, you end up having to translate it in your head. You should try to put yourself in a situation where you don`t check definitions. When you learn a word, it should be learned in direct connection to an object, not to an English word. (Very hard to explain, but a very simple concept.)
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This is very True. Before I went to Japan I did it by the text book/phase book. Latter during my stay when my Japanese got better I just tossed it aside(I still kept it for reference) and bought a Japanese Language book. (The ones with only kana and kanji, no romaji.) I'd say my language skills in general got better.