I thought I made myself clear already....if your not interested...DONT....POST...HERE...ITS THAT SIMPLE PEOPLE- stop being so inconsiderate

In response to the original (very reasonable, I thought) question, try the following link. I'm not clever enough to make it in to a clicky with a snappy title, but here it is...

Genki Japan

Says it all.

I don't think im being unreasonable. What KyoKitty92 is trying to do is like asking someone to show her how to make bread but she doesn't have an oven and isnt prepared to provide/pay for the ingredients. It just aint gonna happen. I don't see how "quick" phrases as described can be useful in everyday life unless you go to bed one night and suddenly wake up in Oita (thats a place in Japan, KyoKitty92) but then you wouldnt understand what was being said to you in the first place so how would you reply? I cannot imagine saying こんにちは　as my answer to anything and everything and I struggle to see how a thread can support a conversation over a one word way of thanking somebody..

Sorry to re-quote but its obvious you don't want to google it cuz that implies effort. You can't expect to learn even the very basics of any foreign language by having someone give it to you on a plate. Chances are if you read it only once it wont commit to long term memory and it will be gone.

I only commented on England cuz thats where I live and it would be foolish of me to talk about availablity of books/classes in other countries that i have no idea about. I've only been a member of this forum for a few months and I've noticed a million and one threads like this one. If you want to learn anything (on a begginer level) then a forum isnt the way to do it. Learn kana then start with speaking/lsitening till you can hold your own then you can ask for help cuz some other poor sucker has already made a site that shows you that yes is hai and no is iie.

Go eat some pocky.

Why is everyone acting like im trying to know a few phrases and say im fluent? for gods sakes people I watch enough anime to know the basic phrases- it was just a conversation starter. Why is everyone being so rude about it?aybe people just wana know a sentence or two. It doesnt have to be useful in everyday conversations with another japnese person- this is only a thread. I dont undertsnad why your thinking 'im lazy' what the hell does that have to do with anything? I have books on the language already. This is just for people to discuss the language. Why is that such a bad thing??

This is the internet. Being a tactless, self-superior elitist is an art form. Fortunately, there are always those who do not conform to form.

*looks up a couple posts at Shadow's response* Case in point of tactlessness. Shadow, you've already made the point that you do not think much of KyoKitty's way of asking. Multiquoting and continuing to demonstrate your disdain isn't really necessary.

and btw dont twist my words- you can obviously see that me saying I know I can look it up on google was not in response to sushidushis link. Dont misquote me and make me sound like the bad person here. If your going to quote something I said dont screw it up and give people the wrong idea.

Finally someone nice :pompoms: hooray! you deserve a hug! *virtual hug*

I'm sorry
but I would personally look down on any contribution to any more fangirl/otaku jabber of random and incoherent "Japanese Phrases"
>.>''

Because your starting a single tread on language discussion when the whole forum is on this? Im not trying to be rude I just dont see the point of helping people join the "lolololkawaijapanpocky club" whos claim to fame is that they can say hello in japanese. Ive seen people say things like:

"yeah i can speak japanese"
Really? Thats cool, go on then.
"konichee war. batara DAVID desai."
Oh.. and what does that mean?
"oh nothin. just introducing myself"

at this point his band of friends are all simultaneously going "yay yay kawaii!" in the background..

you can see where this is going.. its threads like this that bulk up its members.

I understand what you were trying to do kyokitty, but the problem is, you are trying to create a discussion on a topic that isn't really discussable. It would be like creating a topic on multiplication tables. 2x2=4. There's not much to discuss.

If you have questions, please post in the Japanese Questions and Translations sticky.