Since there is no "learning Japanese" thread, I made the one here. If you know some Japanese words or sentences, it will help you a lot when you go to Japan to see AKB48, when you try to understand their lyrics, and so on... Please feel free to ask any kinds of questions here!
wow, thanks for starting up this thread, i find it so extremely useful. I will be needing to learn more basic conversational skills as i prepare my trip to Japan. I will be making a visit to the AKB48 bldg very soon. hmmm....how do i say, "do you have any tickets available for the show?" "When is the next show"? i know about 20-30 words in Japanese conversationally, and i have been practicing, but i still could use the help in learning it, just to "get by", and ask, request for items, directions, etc...
"つぎのコンサートはいつですか?" (Tsugi no konsa-to wa itsu desuka?) or "つぎのコンサートは何時から始まりますか?" (Tsugi no konsa-to wa nanji kara hajimarimasuka?)
If you learn some Japanese, your trip will get better. At least, you should master what you wanna say to AKB48 girls in case you get a chance to talk to them.
"Get in the bag Hana" is all I think I need to learn. No, I do need to pick up a good understanding of Japanese before I go, so I'm sure I'll be pretty active in this thread. So far, I can read and write Hiragana and Katakana, I can recognise quite a few Kanji and have a general understanding of how to put sentances together. There is a Japanese course at my college, and I'm considering taking it next year (which will be around September).
すみませんが 町に迷いました。一番近い駅はどこですか? I think that's right? XD I get lost a lot, even at home, so I can see myself having to stop a passerby or two for directions...
This is a great idea, thanks for the help I can't think of any phrases I might need though, maybe later. Just out of curiousity, how would you say that?
Though I've never said that before, I would say "バッグに入(はい)れ、花(はな)!"(baggu ni haire, hana!). I've never heard people use this phrase.
Thanks, you never know, it might come in handy. I was wondering if Japanese people pronounce the 'n' at the end of words? Most of the time when I hear people say 'yen' for example, it doesn't sound like they pronounce the 'n'. Or they don't use a hard 'n' sound like at the end of 'woman' for example.
My American friend also asked me the same question before. Actually, we pronounce "n" at the end of words, but sometimes it might be hard for non-Japanese speakers to hear "n" since we don't pronounce it strongly.
yea, i have been practcing, basic words whlie in the store, trainstations, etc....and if i happen to meet anyone from AKB48, i would say Daisuki!!! i am not sure what else to say.....lol
I'm starting an honours degree in Japanese this September. When speaking Japanese with my tutor or classmates the sentance I use most are pretty standard: そうですね そうですか （そうか） 本当に Although it's obvisouly very imporant to learn to be able to speak Japanese, learning to read can be far more rewarding as with learning to read, speaking comes naturally and it also means you can well, read. Although in Japan children learn Katakana first I learnt Hirigana so I could get a quick start on being able to read a great deal, I also try to learn a few new kanji each week though my tutor insists upon more like ten a week. If trying to learn Kanji I think the best thing to have is a Kanji dictionary (Kodansha do good ones) that has the stroke order, although not needed for reading I find the easiest way to memorise Kanji is buy memorising the stroke order and then drawing them on the palm of your hand with your finger, on the front of notebooks and just everywhere when you have some free time. You could learn the kanji but learning it by grade, 4th kyuu first and so on, but I think that can be a little bit tedious, it's best just to learn Kanji as you come across it. Gah, I've ended up speaking about Kanji, すべてがか漢字ですね。
Ah really, my tutor must've just learned Katakana first then. I did find it strange that one would learn Katakana first.
