Nexus's New Years Challenge!!!

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

This year for my new year's resolutions I plan to:

Learn Japanese
Learn to Sketch
Learn to at least read Katakana

By next year I hope to at least be able to:

End and start a conversation
Draw a half way decent person
Get a start on Kanji

My ultimate goal is to:

Be able to understand an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh in Japanese with no subtitles.

Draw what MC's winter would have looked like in Persona 4, complete with snow ball fight! (Yosuke shall have sweet revenge for the dreaded camping trip and Amagi Inn mishaps)

Play a game in Japanese, possibly Super Robot Wars or something.



CAN I DO IT!?

[rshadowkirby]

YOU CAN DO IT


i also want to learn japanese but i dont have the time
GOOD LUCK

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

RAWR YEAH *Bursts Red Bull can across for head*

So for now I bought a Japanese for Dummies with the CD and everything to help get me started, you know, so I can learn the different sounds and stuff and hear samples of how to say them properly. I finally learned what those accents marks above the vowels meant xD.

[Mass Zero]

I wish you good luck. I've studied Japanese for a while, but right now I can't remember a damn thing of it.

[infinite4ever]

What is Katakana and Kanji?
By the way, you remind me how to I learn English, lol

The way I learn it is playing ENGLISH VIDEO GAME!!!
I remember whenever I saw a english word that I don't understand, I will put my controller down and look up the dictionary. I repeat and repeat it again until I know all the english word from the game. Maybe you should try it with Japanese video game

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

Katakana is a simpler form of Japanese symbols used to write foreign words and names and Kanji is, I believe, the modern Japanese alphabet they use now, which is much for complex and uses way more symbols.

I know they have some other symbols they use like hiragana too.

[Knocking_you_all_down]

Good luck, Nexus.

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

Well actually the wiki says

In modern Japanese, kanji are used to write parts of the language such as nouns, adjective stems, and verb stems, while hiragana are used to write inflected verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, native Japanese words, words where the kanji is considered too difficult to read or remember, and words in which the kanji is not on the government-sanctioned list of characters. Katakana are used for representing onomatopoeia, non-Japanese loanwords, the names of plants and animals (with exceptions), and for emphasis on certain words.

Good thing I'm waiting a while before starting on learning to read Japanese. I might have to buy some books for children and work my way up. I'm better at learning via listening rather than reading, so learning to speak the language will probably come more naturally to me than learning to write it. Plus Japanese is pretty hard to read and write from what I understand thus far.

[Aevitas]

My friend suggested watching Japanese children's shows when first learning, that way the vocabulary isn't too complicated and you get to hear it being spoken. And by chidren's shows I mean like Doraemon.

Good luck!

[smilie]

I know you can do it.

I am trying to learn japanese as well so I can finally play super robot wars K without the help of a guide.