Good link

[darksyndrem]

Well, I'm learning Japanese myself and I found this neat little page that I decided to use. So, if some of you guys who already know Japanese would like to critique it go for it!! And hopefully this will help others that are learning Japanese, like me!!!

Learn Japanese : Learn Japanese Online : Learning Japanese

Let me know if you like! D

[alanX]

This one actually diserves this:

[darksyndrem]

lol why a facepalm???

[kirakira]

Originally Posted by alanX

This one actually diserves this:

I'd have to agree. The whole site is in romaji, alarm bells should be sounding already.

Particle wa marks the subject of the sentence. Particle ga marks the topic of the sentence.

Shiriiriasen (she-ree-mah-sen; I don't know the answer to that question.)

I mean that's not even correct. My suggestion, get a real textbook!

The whole site is probably created by a non-Japanese person, who just learnt a tiny bit of Japanese him/herself and, it may be very good intentions, creating a web site that teaches other people, but, it's just an epic failure.

[darksyndrem]

I c I c, well is the alphabet they put on there correct?? That's what I'm using right now. Hope it's not all wrong :O

[alanX]

The "alphabet"????? You mean the basic common "letters" known as "hiragana" ???


If I go back to that site, I'd kill myself. So just take a look at this: http://www.japanorama.com/images/hiragana.gif

That is the correct hiragana table.

And then take a look at this: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k9...g?t=1237342419

[alanX]

Originally Posted by kirakira

The whole site is probably created by a non-Japanese person, who just learnt a tiny bit of Japanese him/herself and, it may be very good intentions, creating a web site that teaches other people, but, it's just an epic failure.

Haven't heard such true words since I was Hillary Clinton's hairdresser.



What?

[darksyndrem]

Originally Posted by alanX

The "alphabet"????? You mean the basic common "letters" known as "hiragana" ???


If I go back to that site, I'd kill myself. So just take a look at this: http://www.japanorama.com/images/hiragana.gif

That is the correct hiragana table.

And then take a look at this: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k9...g?t=1237342419

Sorry, I'm new to Japanese. lol thanks for the second one btw also is that all there is to Hiragana? I thought there was more to the "basic common letters". Just making sure, even though you'll probably just facepalm it again

[alanX]

Now we're getting somewhere. Let me break down the writing system for you.

There are FOUR alphabets used in Japan.

Romaji (English/Roman characters, just like this entire thread, you don't even need to learn then, you already know them. Easy, huh? XD)

Hiragana (Looks like this ひらがな　これひらがなだよ　ばかですね) These are used for basic crap, it's really hard to explain. But this is the "main" alphabet.

Katakana （Kataka looks like this アラン　フォーラム　ネックレス フォン ラブホ =]]) It's somewhat more simple than Hiragana. It is used to write foreign words, that don't necissarily have a word in Japanese. (Not necissarily, but for simplicity purposes, I'm going to leave it at that.) Words like names, computer, necklace, hotel, ect. Are all written in Hiragana.

Kanji......wow....kanji is basically a foreigners worst nightmare. Don't worry about Kanji untill you're at least somewhat fluent in Japanese. Most nouns and verbs and crap use Kanji. But you can still use hiragan just as you normally would if you don't know Kanji. （kanji looks like this 思社森字津桃花故意空) And there are freaking tens of thousands of them. So GANBATTE

[darksyndrem]

Originally Posted by alanX

Now we're getting somewhere. Let me break down the writing system for you.

There are FOUR alphabets used in Japan.

Romaji (English/Roman characters, just like this entire thread, you don't even need to learn then, you already know them. Easy, huh? XD)

Hiragana (Looks like this ひらがな　これひらがなだよ　ばかですね) These are used for basic crap, it's really hard to explain. But this is the "main" alphabet.

Katakana （Kataka looks like this アラン　フォーラム　ネックレス フォン ラブホ =]]) It's somewhat more simple than Hiragana. It is used to write foreign words, that don't necissarily have a word in Japanese. (Not necissarily, but for simplicity purposes, I'm going to leave it at that.) Words like names, computer, necklace, hotel, ect. Are all written in Hiragana.

Kanji......wow....kanji is basically a foreigners worst nightmare. Don't worry about Kanji untill you're at least somewhat fluent in Japanese. Most nouns and verbs and crap use Kanji. But you can still use hiragan just as you normally would if you don't know Kanji. （kanji looks like this 思社森字津桃花故意空) And there are freaking tens of thousands of them. So GANBATTE

Now that helps So, would Kanji sound different than Katakana and Hiragana? Like if someone were to be speaking to me, could they happen to use certain words in Kanji that I wouldn't understand?