is hard to learn Japanese

[carolgreen943]

i will have a two month in the following to have a travel to Japan ,i want to konw some basic japanese greetings .thanks

[Dreamstryder]

http://www.learn-japanese.info/greetings.html
http://www.anime-manga.jp/

The best way to learn is thru a good school course or by speaking and living with natives.

[carolgreen943]

speaking and living with natives.

[Leader Desslock]

Forget Japanese. You seem to have definite problems writing English.

[old hat]

Don't you mean defiananate problems writeing?

[Leader Desslock]

^ That mite be mor efective, ya.

[old hat]

Fonix mite wurk evun betur.

[pimpyobutt]

u iz haxzorz!!!

[Sandrik]

Nothing is hard if you're really want to Otherwise forget about it

[old hat]

Learning is a language is difficult with no one to practice speaking it with. It's much more difficult for me to retain what I learn when I don't have any chance to speak the language.

[amna]

ooo my god. you told exacltly the correct information. japanese and chinese are so dfficult to learn. i have been trying for 5 months and i couldn't have been able to learn even the basics of it

[Hiroshimafuu]

I'm not sure how you're defining "the basics," but if you mean how to form simple sentences and questions like "My name is Jim," "I live in New York," and "Where is the bathroom?" then five months should be plenty of time to learn that. Unless the amount of time you're spending studying is incredibly small, like only two hours a week, you might want to consider looking for a new textbook/teacher.

You might also want to focus on learning one language at a time. Japanese and Chinese don't have that many similarities aside from kanji, and even for those the Japanese pronunciations and sometimes strokes are different.

On the other hand, if by "the basics" you mean the ability to carry on a full conversation at natural, native speed, or read a magazine with no need for a dictionary, measuring your progress at this point is just going to frustrate you. The skills required to do those kind of things are a lot more advanced than they seem. They take years, not months.

More importantly, thinking too much about whether a language is easy to learn or not is usually a dead-end that does nothing more than rob your concentration and give you an easy out when you don't want to put in the necessary effort. Aside from students who just want to get their general education credits, no one chooses to study a language they have no interest in speaking just because it's easy. Focusing on your desire to learn, regardless of the difficulty, will almost always produce better results.

[Allan53]

Depending on where you live, a lot of places will offer language courses. Try vocational training places (in Australia it's TAFE, not sure what it's called elsewhere), or university courses that allow you to do just the language course rather than a whole degree. If you're already enrolled in a university, try throwing it on as an elective, or maybe even just auditing a class?

I think some translating places have information about learning the language, if they don't run classes themselves, maybe look into that?

[janie]

I guess it is quite difficult to learn a reasonable amount of Japanese merely two months before traveling there. It is a very complex language and different from Roman or Germanic languages anyway. It already takes years to fully understand the writing and moreover, intonation plays a major role.