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09-14-2009, 01:13 AM
i like just started self-teaching myself Japanese. Unfortunately I don't know of many things I can do that can help me learn the vocabulary an average japanese college student would know. Things I know are watching japanese anime (unsure of whether it is better to turn on english subtitles or to just listen to the japanese and try and figure it out myself), reading and studying out of the book i got (kinda old, Japanese in Ten Minutes a Day), and speaking it with people who are also learning or already have learned it. Also a kind of off-topicish question, but I was wondering if college-prep school was another way of saying high school in Japan or if it was different. All help will be appreciated!
I left off something xD. My book doesn't teach me how to read Japanese writing symbols. Teaches me how to speak it only. Therefore all the words are in English Alphabet. Could someone tell me where I could find a book that will teach me the symbols. I'm sure I'm am going to need it. 
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09-14-2009, 01:37 AM
Reading.
Vocab. Listening. - Stop watching anime. It will ruin your Japanese. - Stop "teaching yourself". You're not a licensed Japanese teacher so I don't see how this phrase makes sense. Enter a class. - If you learn from your friends who are learning, you learn their mistakes, too. Be careful. - Did you even try to find any answers to your questions before posting here? Just curious. Good luck! なんてしつけいいこいいけつしてんな。
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09-14-2009, 01:46 AM
Thanks. Reason I am teaching myself is because I can't afford to pay for classes. I barely scraped up enough money to pay for college classes this semester. I'll do anything that helps, but I can learn slang terms and whatnots from watching anime I think. So far I don't know enough of the language to start trying to do that yet. This is tough, but not as tough as high school French. Crappy Texas schools don't offer Japanese =(.
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09-14-2009, 01:50 AM
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09-14-2009, 01:52 AM
That's because Texas sucks...(spoken by one who has spent all all his life here..)
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09-14-2009, 01:52 AM
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09-14-2009, 02:11 AM
By the time i can start class for the language, I'll have learned quite a bit of the language. I could however use help with how you learn the order in which i put words. It looks to be kinda like the latin based languages of french and spanish where you like always say it in reverse order. you say the noun at the start of the sentence then define what is is you desire to know about it or what it is doing after you put the noun. Is it always that way?
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09-14-2009, 02:23 AM
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You'll never know how much or how little of a language you can know in a certain period of time. If you do know a lot maybe you can test into a higher level.
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