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Old Mar 12, 2007, 02:48 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Learning English in Japan? Japanese in America?

I've heard that American's dice and slice Japanese into all sorts of categories, that even Japanese haven't heard of! I've also heard that Japanese use silly stories and songs to learn English. So, methinks to pose the question...

How did you learn Japanese? (or) How did you learn English?

was it in school?
from a book?
on the web?
lived there?

=_= and no, this is not talking about a few words or phrase. This is asking how you became fluent in either language, please answer accordingly.

^_^'''' i'd love to say how i learned Japanese... but sadly, i couldn't keep the pace in Japanese 2... TT__TT maybe another semester...
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 03:04 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

I'm learning Japanese but I'm not fluent yet either,
I learn from freinds that I have on yahoo and msm and I get some words on the net too.
I know where you can learn some stuff in japanese,
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 03:04 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

I learned English at school, that was like 6 years ago. It was a bit hard at first because of the pronunciation of some english words. The easy way that i found in order to learn the lenguage was to listen to music in English.
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 03:18 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

I learned English the Hard way~! My Parents would say "Speak up!" Or "Hush up."

I have a troublesome state when it came to. The "Th" and "F" sound, or "W" at times. So my teacher would attack me all the time. "No Kat! Thumb, Not Fumb"

(....)

I had the evil little cards too~!
Quote:
A as in Apple

B as in Banana

C as in Car

Ch as in Chair

Th as in Thumb
(...)

I had a slur too, cause of the ::Trying to talk, while thumb was in mouth::

They even thought I was Handy-cape because I stop talking~ [That's a Different Story]

ANYWHO!

As for Japanese and Spanish. I learned tons of Spanish in 1st grade!! I can understand it, pretty good.

As for learning Japanese: There was a Foundation at my school that when I was in 1st grade as well. I was lacking Ambition (...) The only thing I remember now is how to write my name is Japanese and How to Sing the Song "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" in Japanese.
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 04:00 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

English is my primary language. Learned it at home and in school.

As for Japanese, even though I'm quarter Japanese I never really learned how to say anything other than the basic "konnichiwa", "ohayou", "arigato" and other simple words like those until I started watching Sailor Moon. Then I got hooked. Bought a book or two, watched anime and J-dramas, read manga, and went to Japan every chance I got.




Oh. And because I can't promote this any other way, GO CHECK OUT THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE THREAD. After Hassun scared everybody away I finally made a new post, but it looks like everyone's still too chicken to post.
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 06:17 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

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I learned English the Hard way~! My Parents would say "Speak up!" Or "Hush up."

I have a troublesome state when it came to. The "Th" and "F" sound, or "W" at times. So my teacher would attack me all the time. "No Kat! Thumb, Not Fumb"

(....)

I had the evil little cards too~!


(...)

I had a slur too, cause of the ::Trying to talk, while thumb was in mouth::

They even thought I was Handy-cape because I stop talking~ [That's a Different Story]

ANYWHO!

As for Japanese and Spanish. I learned tons of Spanish in 1st grade!! I can understand it, pretty good.

As for learning Japanese: There was a Foundation at my school that when I was in 1st grade as well. I was lacking Ambition (...) The only thing I remember now is how to write my name is Japanese and How to Sing the Song "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" in Japanese.
I feel the pain to.. But had alot more cards to learn. Anyways I learn my study from school and other times from just life.XD
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 07:21 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I have a troublesome state when it came to. The "Th" and "F" sound, or "W" at times. So my teacher would attack me all the time. "No Kat! Thumb, Not Fumb"
Hahahaha. I used to pronounce words wrongly all the time too, but it wasn't because I had trouble pronouncing certain letters or that I had a lisp. I just never really learned properly. Like, I'd go around saying, "Fees? Feeees?", and my aunt would go, "No! F'sh! F'sh!" (because when you say "fish" quickly it sounds like "f'sh") and after a while I started going, "Fosh! I like fosh!"


And my atrocious Japanese back in my preschool days! Ackkk! I had terrible grammar. I can't remember exactly what I said back then but there is one wrongly spoken phrase of mine that my relatives ALWAYS talk about.

I said, "namenna!" (don't mess with me!)

What I was trying to say was, "namaewa?" (your name is...?)


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Old Mar 12, 2007, 07:58 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I am learning Japanese, I know a few words.... i have the vocab that a 5 year old would have.
For english I learned interacting with ppl. I learned the bases in my country... but 'cos i didn't need to speak it... obviously it wasn't as good as it is now... It wasn't that hard... Just with the pronunciation
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Old Mar 12, 2007, 08:54 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

Well I was born here in the US but mother was Japanese so I'm half. I learned to speak Japanese first though since we moved to Japan as soon as I was born. Til I got up in school my mother basically taught me the basic Japanese and I picked up some more while I was put in pre-school. The rest I learned by reading books and watching TV and doing dialouges in my head. I was put into a US elemetry when I got older and I had to take ESL (English as Second Language) classes on top of my regular classes. I took that til 2nd grade til I was able to manage going through the day on my own...funny since everyone thinks that Japanese is my second laguage now.XP

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As for Japanese, even though I'm quarter Japanese I never really learned how to say anything other than the basic "konnichiwa", "ohayou", "arigato" and other simple words like those until I started watching Sailor Moon. Then I got hooked. Bought a book or two, watched anime and J-dramas, read manga, and went to Japan every chance I got.
Sailor Moon got you hooked!? XD Well its good that you went through all that effort to learn

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Oh. And because I can't promote this any other way, GO CHECK OUT THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE THREAD. After Hassun scared everybody away I finally made a new post, but it looks like everyone's still too chicken to post.
Hassun is scary...ok!? xD LOL, well I just stopped cuz I was the one teaching those random Japanese and thats what Hassun wanted to stop. X(
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in American?

I learned japanese online at first. Then I found out that they were giving free lessons on iTunes in the podcasts area. So now I just download those lessons, and learn japanese!

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Old Mar 13, 2007, 04:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Learning English in Japan? Japanese in America?

oshnima I need to learn more -_-
hey you think any of you can teach me?
just PM me ok?
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