Japanese, Study?

Question

I´m planing to get a scholarship to study in Japan sponsored by the Japanese Government; but in order to do that I need to learn japanese. I´ve cheked out some web pages and japanese seems VERY difficult (not only for the grammar; also for kanji learning and that stuff). Can you give me some tips please!!????

Answer 1

For starters, you must memorize the Japanese alphabet. This page tells you how to pronounce them:

http://www.saiga-jp.com/pronunciation_vo...

If you are willing to spend money, get a good tutor locally or enroll in a class.

There's a software called Rosetta Stone that will help with immersion.

Find Japanese people around you, befriend them and ask for help with your learning.

Expand your vocabulary by getting a English-to-Japanese dictionary and start translating everything you see into Japanese, or look it up online. Whenever you see it next time, think of it by the Japanese name not the English name.

Say you want to translate "pencil". An easy way I like is, use Google translate it into Japanese text, "鉛筆"

http://www.google.com/translate_t?sl=en&...

Then use wiktionary to get the kanji's pronunciation, "enpitsu":

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

Some people like to learn by watching TV shows, anime, movies, etc. Make sure you listen to and hear the original sentence not just the subtitle.

Give me a shout to get a study partner.

Some lessons:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/inde...

http://www.youtube.com (search for Japanese lessons)

http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/

Useful phrases:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Japanese_phrase...