What is the best way to learn a foreign language /pol/ I want to learn Japanese.
>>61070414
I did it by watching movies with subtitles, but I guess it's harder with japanese since the alphabet is a fucking shitshow
>>61070415
Two alphabets (hiragana and Katakana) + Chinese ripoff
>>61070414
Total immersion + some direction (teaching or whatever)
Japanese is one of the EASIEST languages to learn.
>>61070414
shack up with a native
on the plus side, she can't say no since you don't know the word no
>>61070414
Rosetta Stone is the BEST method to learn any language. I've been learning Japanese since the beginning of this month. It's FUCKING AMAZING, to be able to watch anime and actually understand what they are saying here and there.
>>61070414
Learn with me anon-kun~
>>>/a/143113402
Start with Duolingo. (Yes everyone bags on it but its great for basics and some vocabulary)
Use it every day, but don't just use it, repeat every sentence and word you learn 5 times outloud.
Then download assimil and complete that book and exercises, it is important you take your time and don't skim through it.
Then start reading, children's books, news articles etc.
Listen to local radio in target language.
Find someone who speaks it and try to talk with them.
Immersion (ie moving to the country) is only really effective if you have to use the language and not just get away with English.
Bonus step: find gf who speaks
t. Kiwi with dutch gf
>>61070422
haha good lad my aussie mate has a dutch gf as well
>>61070421
thanks!
>>61070418
Gomenasai. Watashi wa omae desu dude weed kekekeke
Foolproof way to learn any language:
>learn 300 most common words
>read newspapers
>watch tv
>you will pick up on the subtle nuances of sentence structure
You are now a master of the language
Works every time!
Find a flaw.
>>61070420
Shill detected
>>61070426
Holy shit.
This may be the very first time in my years here that someone has used shill correctly.
I may need a minute.
>>61070414
Assuming you can't take courses, get a textbook (Genki, Minna no Nihongo, etc.) and set study goals. If you can get a hold of the hiragana/katakana book that elementary kids use, they're good writing practice.
Don't neglect kanji, the first 500 are difficult, but you'll start seeing patterns after a while.
>>61070415 has a good idea, but do it with Japanese stuff in English. Good listening practice. Anpanman, Sazae-san and Chibi Maruko are all kid shows and good listening practice, even without subtitles.
>>61070419 has an okay idea, but every guy I know who did this talks like a woman. Try and do language exchanges or study with natives.of both sexes to learn the differences.
Either study or try and work/do a working holiday in Japan.
Good luck, I started with 2 years (4 courses) in uni, moved here in 2006, got my N2 in 2008 and my N1 is 2012.
>>61070414
Google Pimsleur.
Then torrent Pimsleur Japanese.
>>61070414
Also if you want to write it. Google "Chineasy".
Thats how I learnt.
>>61070428
Thanks I plan to do a teaching degree at university next year and would love to learn Japanese in the mean time and eventually move to the country.
>>61070431
If your school has ESL students from japan, see if they have a student tutoring program. They might be willing to help you in exchange for it.
>>61070431
what a gret plan, you'll probably be the only anglo wanting to live in japan by teaching english. such a snowflake.
>>61070433
ok? I never implied that no need to be salty...
>>61070432
I'm out of school but I'll look into what the university offers I know a few Aussies who are spending a year in Japan for their studies.
>>61070434
Working holidays are an option too, short term and a good trial run to see if you want to try staying longer.
And ignore Captain Salty, he's just realizing that even when it comes to getting laid, wherever you go, there you are.
>>61070414
>TFW fluent in 4 languages including Japanese
How does it feel to be a retarded cunt? Tell me.
>>61070436
>Flag
I'm guessing you could do a better job telling us.
>>61070436
Going to anime conventions and spouting half assed lines you learned from watching Keion and other moeshit doesn't count, fagtron.
Japanese is a shit language my man. Learn another western language if you want to expand your mind
>>61070414
An hero and hope that you are reincarnated as a Jap. Trust me, I did it twice.
>>>/int/
>>61070440
And yet you keep getting "Muslim"
>>61070440
And you're still a muslim, how does it feel?
>>61070442
>>61070443
Hivemind from Muslim expats.
tfw want to learn Russian but can't make the rolling R sound at all
>>61070437
What does being American have to do with anything, you subhuman English teacher? People from all over the world compete to get into American colleges. We're the best, faggot.
>>61070438
黙れ横向きカナダ
死ね
>>61070446
Ooga booga indeed, and while I'm not a teacher, that Japanese is shit-tier from Google translate, or you've been drinking tap water from Flint, Michigan .
>>61070447
じゃあお前日本語でなんか言ってみろよカスが
人間録音機の分際で調子に乗ってんじゃねーよ
死ね
>>61070416
what about romanji?
>>61070436
>TFW fluent in 4 languages
>including Japanese
>>61070441
This sounds like bullshit, but I hope it's not. Are they really phasing out kanji?
>>61070450
What's wrong? Are you jealous because you're a retard who's stuck in Japan but doesn't speak Japanese?
>>61070448
まず、あなたの文章はとても短い。
まるで、アニマやドラマから習ったフレーズを繰り返しているのみ。あなたは死ぬ死ぬばっかりを言っているだから、あなたの方こそ人間録音機と思います。
どう?ガキのように以外話せる?やっぱりできないだろう?アメリカの教育水準は高くなくて、そしてあなた自身は口先ばかりで行動しない.
旧式トラクター大統領さんによろしく!
>>61070453
kek
>>61070454
クアッドとダッブルチェック!w
>>61070453
Dude, your grammar is so fucked. Keep studying, though! You're further than most people. :)
>>61070414
wait five years for your phone to do it for you.
>>61070414
How about you go nuke yourself
just learn korean its not retarded and makes sense
그리고 일본 적이라서
>>61070456
"H--heh, nice try kiddo, but try again"
You'd run away if it wouldn't kill you from the strain. And like I said, you're incapable of saying anything you didn't memorize from anime an drama, and can only repeat "die! die!"
like some angry Japanese 2nd grader.
Ask mommy to make you some tendies to make the sad go away before you go to bed, okay?
>>61070452
>What's wrong? Are you jealous because you're a retard who's stuck in Japan but doesn't speak Japanese?
Why are you mad? Sounds like you were some weeb ALT and you couldn't manage to stay here and you got sent home and now are furious at anyone who is in Japan.
Keep studying tho I'm sure your language will help you at the next anime convention ; )
>>61070414
Move to Tokyo area in Japan where english is common
Bring Rosetta Stone
Once you get better move to backwoods town where very few are english proficient
Then the local chief will make you a real deal nihonjin and give you an official high school uniform desu
>>61070462
>Move to Tokyo area in Japan where english is common
desu, when you don't need to use it, you won't. If you absolutely need to use it, you develop a lot faster.
>>61070456
Oh, and can I see some examples of those other 4 languages you're allegedly fluent in? I'm wondering what the memorized lines from anime/drama in those countries are like!
>>61070445
me too, and I had a greek friend try forever to teach me to do it
>>61070460
Dude, come on. I'm supporting your studies. We can all see that your sentences are stilted and awkward due to inexperience. It's a natural part of the learning process.
Please gracefully accept the truth and return to your study material.
watch lots of anime
>>61070465
You really don't know how to lose gracefully on the internet, do you? If you're so much better, let's see it! Or explain what was wrong with my grammar if you're such a pro?
How about some lines in those other language you claim to be fluent in.
Goddamn, summer came fast this year.
>>61070463
This is true but it's nice to ease into the language instead of bumbling around for the first month like some feral child.
>>61070414
Watch 300 animes, I'm pretty much Japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEA54VJEdE
>>61070467
>summer
fucking newfags, moot said summer doesn't exist
>>61070471
And now we have a sweet autumn child to lead us into battle against degeneracy.
>>61070470
>Put it in your mouth is kill
Fuuuck, those videos brought me so much nostalgia, a while ago i tried searching them and aparently he took them down.
Arigato gosaimasu, you BITCH.
And for anyone who want's to work on their English, try this series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRerwXWTRjM
>>61070414
why would you learn a foreign language? are you a cuck or something?
>>61070474
checked by kek
Thank you, dear anon. I think I'm ready to move to America now.
>drop a nuclear bomb on Japanese city
>walk into inflicted area after blast
>the radiation with naturally imbue you with the language of all those you just vaporized.
>>61070449
>romanji
>learning japanese
Pick one
>>61070418
desu desu desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKjaFG4YN6g
>ITT People who dont know fucking /a/ has a daily thread DEDICATED TO LEARNING JAPANESE
>When a Japan flag speaks broken Japanese or fluent English to me
>>61070414
Go to bumfuck nowhere rural japan
No english speakers plus country girls are the best
>>61070482
Can you write a longer sentence in Japanese without repeating yourself? How about those corrects if you want to help me study? And those other languages you're fluent in?
>>61070484
*corrections
But please, we're all waiting here, reddit-kun
>>61070420
"This is a sea-urchin."
>>61070474
Australian english is better
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHQRZXM-4xI
>>61070420
truth here
i have like 10 different language packs, and rosetta stone makes learning them easy as fuck
i'm just a lazy piece of shit, but if you spend an hour a day on 1 language, you're good to go famalamia
i recommend all lazy fucks in here go download
>read pirate
rosetta stone and the different language installs.
>>61070488
"I'm learning Thai, for a thing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UD4_m_XHB4
japanese is hard as fuck to learn. i'm a whitefag and my second language was chinese because my dad insisted on making me learn "the future business language", but learning japanese is still hard as FUCK for me. 你好人們,我的中文對白人說還行吧。可是日語對我來說非常難學,非常麻煩。祝我好運!
>>61070414
Rosetta stone
>>61070428
Excusez moi!?
Why aren't we in there?! We're the fucking champs of bullshit language
Easiest way to learn a Language is by travel.
>>61070492
I guess no one could do it?
>>61070414
>I want to learn a language spoken only in some tiny xenophobic island nation because muh anime
Please kill yourself. If you are going to learn a language atleast learn one that is useful.
>>61070469
After 9 years and over 300 animes I can understand this video 100% (and only 5% for anything more complicated).
No doubt the best way to learn. In 20 years I'll be Japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRfHcp2GjVI
>>61070495
Japan is the only country outside the anglosphere that makes media worth watching or reading.
>xenophobic
>as if it was a bad thing
>>61070497
>what is russia
>>61070441
>Skip Kanji
wew
>>61070420
>>61070488
I've heard it's good for incredibly basic shit, but instead of saying look at those two hats you'll say two hats look
>>61070414
Duolingo is ok for vocab and grammar and has nice interface+works as mobile app. Quite addictive.
Glossika "Mass Sentence Training" is excellent for quickly increasing listening comprehension and expanding vocab+improving grammar.
Sites like iTalki/Verbling which let you arrange Skype/Hangout language lessons or language exchanges are the best resource IMO - the sooner you actually start speaking the language the quicker you learn it.
A useful blog to follow is also Benny Lewis' "Fluent in 3 Months" which has regular helpful blogposts and articles by both fulltime/pro polyglots as well as basic learners.
>>61070437
Why do you proxyfags rp with flags? Do you think it's healthy?
god if youre going to learn a language can you please actually dedicate time to actually study it and not just watch a shit ton of anime and delude yourself into thinking youre becoming fluent?
and in your first year of learning if you don't do remembering the kanji youre never going to be able to read shit
>>61070502
Not a proxy, burger.
>>61070420
Yeah maybe 20 years ago. Rosetta Stone is a very expensive way of getting an inferior and outdated version of what you can get for free from the likes of Duolingo.
>>61070414
gaijin = goyim
>>61070506
>Luigi the spaghetti nigger who couldn't even beat the Greeks alone.
>>61070414
Listen to me right now you, and listen well becauae I'm only going to say it once, I learned base Chinese that allowed me to move into learning it fluently veeeery easily thanks to PIMSLEUR. PIMSLEUR, I FUCKING SWEAR BY IT. Buy it or torrent it, either way it's worth it. Fuck rosseta stone, you can play video games and do Pimsleur at the same time
>>61070419
Kek
French or arabic they extremely easy
>>61070414
Why? Arent you Weeaboo enough?
>>61070504
Sure, Mr. Smith.
>>61070459
Korean girls keep calling me onion evrytime they see me, annoying little shits.
>>61070512
Here's a scan of today's Nikkei, Jamal.
>>61070498
Okay, point.
>>61070503
>can you please actually dedicate time to actually study it
BUT THAT'S HARRRRRD
>>61070449
never actually used.
>>61070418
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>>61070507
if you are one of those Engrish teachers working for them, I feel sorry for you >>>/wsg/1143552
>>61070428
Both German and French are assbackwards as well.
>>61070517
Not a teacher, are you a pizza chef, a spaghetti chef,a GLADIO agent who was fired and never told, or a sailor who's job is to save immigrants because you're a leading importer of BBC?.
>>61070490
>traditional characters
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>61070505
>Rosetta Stone is a very expensive way of getting an inferior and outdated version of what you can get for free from the likes of Duolingo.
Duolingo does not teach Japanese.
japanese truly does have the worst and most toxic autistic community of all language learning communities. be careful because youre subjecting yourself to the lowest of the low and youre gonna become what you dont want to see
>>61070414
Grind with anki.
>>61070522
It quickly descends to a dick measuring contest over who can speak better. Fuck I hated having to discuss is with other foreigners when I first got here.
>>61070524
Can you explain?
>>61070525
>People boasting about some conversation they had, who did better on a kanji test, etc. It7s just a sad race to be the best.
>>61070414
Free resources:
Best Jpn<>Eng dictionary is Jisho.org http://jisho.org/
How lookup Kanji dictionaries
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/look-up-kanji/
Best forums to learn Japanese Kanji
http://forum.koohii.com/
Learn Kanji by frequency order (the most common ones first, more rare later)
https://foosoft.net/research/kanji-freq/
Ways to learn Kanji
https://www.tofugu.com/series/kanji/
NHK basic japanese lessions
http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/
Best blog about learning Japanese
https://www.tofugu.com/
Practice Listening Japanese Music
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E9%82%A6%E6%A5%BD
Watch Japanese Movies and Animes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCe3hg-z0E8
and hearing Japanese Youtube Channels
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlwQuZJJQppHO6-FkGgiqQ
Japanagos is a channel of a bilingual japanese wich explains bits of local culture
https://www.youtube.com/user/japanagos
Learn more tips or other forums as
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/
>>61070414
Why're you asking /pol/ when /a/ has had Japanese learning threads with resources for ages?
>>>/a/143113402
>>61070414
Well, if you ever want to learn Spanish... just move to the USA.
>>61070526
Do you meet a lot of foreigners?
>>61070414
>>61070414
Live Japan Tv
http://mokodojo.net/
Also learning a language is cultural appropriation
>>61070526
It's what makes them feel special. Besides it's the only quality they have so they don't want competition.
>>61070527
I live in Brazil but my father is Japanese, I'm (half)Japanese Brazilian.
私はブラジルに住んでいますが
私のお父さんは日本人
私はブラジル(半)日系人
>>61070425
I imagine there is probably more truth to this than people realize. Even with English if you come across a word you don't know the meaning of, you can usually guess through sentence context. I imagine its quite the same with other languages.
>>61070533
I had just my father and half of grandparents to practice.
And the few Japanese language schools in Brasil are too weak.
I learned a lot of Japanese by myself, communicating on Internet.
>>61070527 had some of the best resources online I've found
Favorite websites also include
Naver matome http://matome.naver.jp/
Niconico http://www.nicovideo.jp/ranking
Pixiv http://www.pixiv.net/
2channel http://itest.2ch.net/
Google News Japan https://news.google.co.jp/
Ameba's blogs http://official.ameba.jp/
etc...
>>61070414
A good place to start is >>>/int/jap and >>>/a/jap.
>>61070414
Assimil Japanese with ease. I recommend it 100%, it makes you learn languages through natural mechanics, the way a kid learns it. In 100 days you will be able to understand so much you can start actively learning through anime and tv.
>>61070533 (You)
I had just my father and half of grandparents to practice.
And the few Japanese language schools in Brasil are too weak.
I learned a lot of Japanese by myself, communicating on Internet.
Best Online resources include
Best Jpn<>Eng dictionary is Jisho.org http://jisho.org/
How lookup Kanji dictionaries
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/look-up-kanji/
Best forums to learn Japanese Kanji
http://forum.koohii.com/
Learn Kanji by frequency order (the most common ones first, more rare later)
https://foosoft.net/research/kanji-freq/
Ways to learn Kanji
https://www.tofugu.com/series/kanji/
NHK basic japanese lessions
http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/
Best blog about learning Japanese
https://www.tofugu.com/
Practice Listening Japanese Music
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E9%82%A6%E6%A5%BD
Watch Japanese Movies and Animes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCe3hg-z0E8 [Embed]
and hearing Japanese Youtube Channels
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlwQuZJJQppHO6-FkGgiqQ
Japanagos is a channel of a bilingual japanese wich explains bits of local culture
https://www.youtube.com/user/japanagos
Learn more tips or other forums as
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/
Favorite websites also include
Naver matome http://matome.naver.jp/
Niconico http://www.nicovideo.jp/ranking
Pixiv http://www.pixiv.net/
2channel http://itest.2ch.net/
Google News Japan https://news.google.co.jp/
Ameba's blogs http://official.ameba.jp/
etc...
Japanese Gameplays are also fun:
Until Dawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_-y4Kxl6M&list=PLZwxv1H2_6jNV2hbuhnrnZYg_DPRyUnyl
>>61070449
According Detective Conan, Romanji could kill your waifu.
>>61070539
You wa shine desu
>>61070540
pls no
>>61070414
Fucking weeb
unkown
>flags don't display itt
>>61070414
>want to learn Japanese
you have the internet right now. you can do everything.
no need to transfer /pol/ threads anywhere else
literally into the trash it goes.
>>61071025
This desu.
