The Beatle

Hello im asking from anybody who has learned Japanese what helped you learn it. Its my first year of taking it in HighSchool (im a freshman) and im planning on taking it for all four years but what helped you learn the language .

beast

Find a native speaker and start having converstaions with them. That is alwasy the best approach.

The Beatle

Yes but thats not easy since I live in Arizona and I have to have time to do it and so do they plus Im learning words and how to write i really cant talk it so that really wouldnt help me thanks anyway .

kaki tori kaizoku

as the beast said find a native speaker. with words and phrases, sometimes anime/manga related magazines have japanese lessons included, such as shonen jump and anime insider. i think the ones in anime insider are more helpful then the ones in shonen jump.
but then again we live in a technology based world now, so use the internet. im sure there are plenty of how to speak japanese sites and videos somewhere. all u got to do is google it.

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Zev

lol I started watching the subbed versions of anime, and learned words that way without even trying to learn words. So you may want to start watching subbed anime, it may help a little.

If you are taking a class then the teacher should help you learn it all, there are some really good websites for learning other languages such as Japanese. If you want I can pm you the links.

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jazzy2103

Whoa,You are so lucky! Your school actually has japanese! AM envious.

but I agree with the person above me ^^

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lapislazuli

That's a real nice website to learn Japanese. Maybe you want to check it out alongside your studies, might be helpful.

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beast

That can help alot as well. I learned words doing that as well.