LANGUAGES

[Lefty]

Yeah I know under stand about fifth of what my freinds at kendo say. Watching anime can help but it's not a good source for learning everything from.

[Uchiha Barles]

Wow, they ripped you apart. I'll just go ahead and answer your question to the best of my ability. I have several japanese speaking friends and all of them concur that learning to speak japanese is pretty easy. Learning to read and write it is a little different though. Apparently hiragana and katakana (symbols representing syllables in the japanese language) are fairly easy to learn, compared to the kanji (more complicated symbols originating from china). The reason for this is that the kana (hiragana and katakana together) represent syllables, while kanji characters each have their own meaning. In otherwords, if you want to write something in kana, you need only to know the symbols that represent the syllables of that word. Its kind of analagous phonetics in english. In order to write something in kanji, you need to to know the symbol that represents the word. period. There are thousands of kanji characters, and you need to need to know a good deal of them, I think.

So basically, learning to speak it should be easy, and learning to read write it should be hard on account of kanji.

[Xollence]

Are you trying to take a class on it or are you trying to learn it on your own?

[darkshadow]

im learning it via rosetta stone learning japanese, it works great

[BenJiMan]

Originally posted by: Xollence
Are you trying to take a class on it or are you trying to learn it on your own?

i was going to try it on my own first

[Deblas]

Find out on your own. Just buy a book that teaches you jap. There's is really no real reason to ask us. If its too hard for you then take some classes.