I think Japanese people are very interesting, but i don't understand a word they are saying. That's why im taking a Japanese language class right now, so i could learn. It's pretty damn hard. I think it's my teacher, or it may just be me. Seems like it takes a lot of time to learn it. Hey! if you guys have pictures, send some to me, you guys over there are cool.....especially to the Japanese girls, i think you guys are cute !
O yea, i do a little hip-hop dancing stuff too, and i wonder if u guys have people that are good at dance......NOT just in DDR (dance dance revolution)

It's real good you're taking the initiative in learning japanese. it is very worthwhile to learn as opposed to the alternative.

It's considered one of the hardest languages to learn.
This is why i'm teaching myself and then going into an international education program in my college to study over in tokyo. I learn the language and get to pick it up at the same time while staying in tokyo.
A way I use to learn is I study the language, and I also listen to japanese music, and I watch japanese movies with english subtitles, and then try to learn from my japanese friends. Anyway to learn, but the best is to study the language while staying in japan. Your then being really forced to learn/use japanese.
You can listen to this station for japanese music: http://www.japanaradio.com/
24/7 japanese music.
I had another somewhere..i'll post it when I find it.

Edit: Here found it: http://j-fan.com/radio/

I'm also studying japanese. After the summer I'll be staying in japan for 5 months, and after the next summer 1 year.
Have a lot of friends who has lived in Japan some time.

er.. i think japanese are easy to learn. that's what i plan to do when i go to college... it is whole lot easier than spanish

Same thing here.*lol*
About 3-4 months through the school.
I, too have alot of friends who went there and all.*lol*
But, the thing with me is after college I plan to move and settle over there.



Than spanish? You sure? I guess it's really based upon the person. Some seem to learn faster than others. I guess if your really into the language and the culture and areas around it then you may have an easyier chance of picking up the language than those who arn't.

actually it's considered one of the easiest languages to learn

my first language is chinese.. so it will help me to learn japanese... we are similar
if u told me to travel in Japan, i have no problem with that, long as u give me a map, i can tell each city and street's name..

Really?o.o;
I've heard one of the easiest is spanish.
Again, I guess it matters how good your at when it comes to learning new languages.

he is learning chinese..
which is more harder.. one word(looks different) with 4 different sounds and means 4 different things..

I have some japanese down.
But, I think I will learn alot more when I am studying the language in Tokyo.
I'll be forced really to learn and use the language..helps me learn faster.

so u are going to Tokyo?? both my parents they can speaks japanese very well...
my dad also can write very well... because he was educated in Tokyo..

If I get into this international education program(which I don't think should be a problem), yep.
The building for the classes is located in Shinjuku, the business, entertainment, and shopping center of Tokyo. I'm going to loooooove it.XD

im a japanese student at the university of oslo in norway. i love japan and japanese. I think its more appropiate to say that it is veeeeery time consuming to learn it, rather than hard. But hey, thats my opinion.

IT ALL DEPENDS on what your first languages are.

Spanish is easy for someone who knows Romance languages, like English or French, as the vocabulary and grammar rules are somewhat similar.

Someone who knows Chinese (especially it's written form) would find learning Japanese to be easier than learning Spanish.

It's all relative depending on your previous knowledge. I would learn Japanese as I find it to be an entertaining language, but I realize that it would be useless for my purposes and thus learn Chinese instead, but I took a 2-week course during the summer and the teacher said I was really good.

Thought Japanese was one of the hardest languages to learn, on par with Arabic???

Why?

1. Kanji.
2. Complex grammar systems.
3. Different character sets to deal with.

Exactly what I was going at.

The onyl difficult thing about Japanese to me is the kanji... but other than that... All I need to do is replace korean words with Japanese words and make a full sentence

Haha! A friend told me she studies Kanji by playing this game. I think it is kinda cute too

http://lrnj.com/

probably would help anyone who wants to improve their japanese. xD and tell me how it goes people...

haha kool....i wanted to learn japanese...

I'm also going to Japan next year, staying there for 5 months the 3. semester. And possibly a whole year the fifth and sixth semester. Looking forward to it

Japanese is REAALLY.....REAALLY EASY!...It all depends on the teacher.

I have a really ongoing teacher..so my classes are super easy.....plus i can learn pretty quick..

Learning japanese is like taking candy from a baby

I will go there on August 25th 2005..and stay for 6 months, so i can study it and move on to something else.Although I'll prolly get arrested for nothing due to my skin color. Although i do know some friends in japan.

But in Language I know all Hiragana and Katakana on the first year and i kno 400 Kanji.

Its too easy to learn unless ur brain is not as sharp as mine. hehehe

YUp Japanese is a easy language to learn. Well i learn partically all the languages i know by myself. The only difficulties i find in Japanese language is the the KAnji. There are all like chinese to me. Chinese is kinda difficult to learn even tho me, myself can speak chinese but cannot write. That sometimes really make me cry.

is dat jay chou i saw while skimming through this forum?.O_o..lolz, although this is a j@p forum, i gotta say, Jay Chou rocks..lolz, ok baq to what i was gonna say, i wanna learn j@p too, but it looks pretty tough..sigh..n i gotta learn chinese n french or spanish too..dats 3 languages...excludin english if i take j@p classes...sigh

I taught myself japanese since i was little like in 4th grade or something. So i know 3 languages. I also found japanese pretty easy to learn. i was little so it was probablly easier for me to pick up and probablly because my first language wasnt indo-european so it was easier to learn than a native english speaker.

My friend says its pretty easy to learn japanese for western speaking peoples.


Its much harder the other way around though he says. Is this true?

English is alot harder to learn than Japanese, yes.
English is supposedly the hardest language in the world to learn, followed by Mandarin, from what I've heard.

hah english hard try dutch 2 i don't think you can mange one vocal sound you need to pronounce dutch words 2 .


But I am learning Japanese and its kind of easy.
And afther Japanese Chinese and Z.Korean.

Haha, imo English is one of the easiest to learn. Dutch/German/Japanese are all very complex, grammar wise, but pronunciation is quite easy. Chinese on the other hand has very simple, straightforward grammar.

Luca, waar leer jij Japans? Ik heb juist vernomen dat Japans erg moeilijk is.

I think it really depends on what your own native tongue is, for people who speak languages similar in structure to japanese, e.g korean, turkic, mongolian, etc or in phonetics, e.g hawaiian, indonesian, polynesian...japanese should prove easy to learn. But for chinese speakers, english speakers etc japanese is an entirely different system...thus the great difficulty. Switch the table around, it's the same, for japanese or korean to learn english is one hard task.