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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Mira, it looks like you were banned, but in case you come back here, I want you to read this post carefully:
We have people come here all the time who are not good with Japanese, yet they jump out and give wrong answers and bad advice to people all the time with no warning that they've only been studying, say, one month or something. This misleads newbies and spreads ignorance.
With that being said, you came here and said "I know a lot of Japanese." Then you proceeded to make mistakes.
Can you not understand why there were strong reactions against you?
1. You appeared to be the typical problem poster;
2. You refused to listen to the people on this board who speak way better Japanese than you; and
3. You refused to listen to advice that Japanese culture sort-of forbids making a claim such as "I know a lot of Japanese."
Finally, you shouldn't use your age and gender as a shield. On the Internet, we are all 16 year old girls.
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I know it is not my place to interfere here. I see this young lady was trying to be helpful-- answering queries etc.
Please be kinder to her-- she needs encouragement to maybe study even more Japanese--
I actually think that the original poster with the query needs to be guided to some good books and recordings of learning to read and pronounce the written language- which is a huge task really. there surely are many courses out there-- which would you recommend that is affordable?
I have some excellent books where I copy Kana-- copying over and over until it becomes improved. The stroke order does become automatic with all the constant writing of each letter etc.
having so much variant advice through the forum could easily confuse shinjo. Better surely to invest in decent courses and books and charts.
I am a very slow learner-- so have to take things slowly until they make sense.
Listening is also important-- I can only do that via my IPOd courses that I bought plus various useful websites.
My japanese friend taught me how to utter the vowel sounds. I listen to my recordings as much as possible but I need speaking practice with live Japanese people as the Courses can be very limiting.
But My Kana text book with its facility for copying over and over via tracing and fitting into the squares is very helpful.
I have flash cards of both but would learn more quickly with quiz games if anyone can recommend such a site to practice the Kana.
I dearly would love to have access to japanese films so I can listen more.
I also have books on Kanji but no progress so far. it is the actual calligraphy that fascinates me so much as I think its beautiful.
ANyway, please be kind to Mira-- she has tried to be helpful and should be
appreciated for her efforts-- not Jumped on as seems to be happening.
Sixteen year olds need encouragement and guidance rather than to be put down all the time.
There are ways and ways to treat them, for all you know-- you could damage her love of learning Japanese.
So seriously why not guide Shinjon? to good websites or teaching material.
None of us are perfect are we. (Forgive me if the original poster is not shinjon.