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keigo sucks! lol
sometimes i accidentally use jisho-form when i speak to my prof 
though sometimes i managed to cover up by adding desu…“yoku wakannai…desu” XD
Yea, it’s pretty tough when you’re not using it on a daily basis.
Is Okinawan Japanese different than mainland Japanese?
I have Japanese maids here in Okinawa and I was hoping to do a little something nice for them for cleaning my room, like get them a flower or small gift. To make sure that they know it’s for them, what would be a good way of saying, “Thank you and please accept the gift!” or something along those lines?
100% different. Sounds nothing like the “japanese” most people know about. Not sure about calling it “mainland” japanese lol shit doesnt sound right.
So can anyone say something along those lines in Okinawa dialect/language?
Hmm, The name of their language is ‘‘Uchinaguchi’’ That’s actually one of the languages I’m suppose to start learning this year. Once that starts up, perhaps we can get a thread going on it.
Hmm, The name of their language is ‘‘Uchinaguchi’’ That’s actually one of the languages I’m suppose to start learning this year. Once that starts up, perhaps we can get a thread going on it.
actually there is faster way to go: go to intensive course (every day 4-5hours) for a while and get the Certificates by doing the official language exam.
I have experienced it when I was like 17, yea it was pretty rough, school plus German course already left me like 2h free from Monday till Friday.
The good things, you learn faster and more focused on it. Downside, you won’t have many times left in the week. Yea just endure the shit, it won’t take forever anyway, like 6-9 months is sufficient to get some certificates. You could go further like going to japan (working + learning language) or just leave it.
learning language when you are not really on it, wont bring you anyway.
maybe the best goal is always some language exam to do.
@Laoshu:
May I ask you which kyu are u?
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Hey there,
I don’t belong to any Kyu. The level I’m on just exists, whatever level it is.
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Finished a semester of JP as an elective but can’t spend anymore money on courses (that don’t count for anything). A friend who was a Chinese student and learned Jap pretty, then learned english at a jap university told me to listen to music and read the lyrics. I like it so far. For practical, everyday JP that is. Still trying to learn more about grammar, and learning more kanji.
I took and passed 3kyu (it was hell because i was havin a bad fever, turned out to be dengue and i was hospitalized for a week+ a day after the exams)… 3kyu’s mad easy.
The next year i took 2kyu but didnt pass it by a few points, like less than 10 lol… so i said fuck it and studied for 1kyu instead and took it the next year and failed that too haha so yeah i only have 3kyu as far as qualifications go. After reaching japan, its been 2 years and my japanese is much better now despite not being perfect. Its all about making japanese friends and speak the language everyday. Whenever i dont understand i just ask them, and they do the same when in comes to english lol…so yeah…
That’s great man.
this is fantastic, im going to start watching these. thank you
I’d love to learn japanese just, I just don’t have the will to learn Kanji symbols.
I think with the right methodology, you would be ok to learn them.
yeah… the way i learned mine… for 3 years of doing a diploma in EEE(in japanese except the very first semester), i took(more like forced to take) japanese classes daily (3-4 hours a day iirc), though the number of classes were reduced a little in the 3rd year… learned every aspect of the language, speaking writing listening, even culture… as for kanji, i guess you need to start learning from the very basic and then later on things will get more complicated but those kanjis mostly are just combinations of stuff youre already know, and some kanjis i can understand even without knowing how it sounds, or sometimes i can even guess how it sounds like based on its similarity with other kanjis.
but of course there are some kanjis that you just got to know/memorize what it is lol.
Hey Moses, this is off topic but I was just wondering how many languages you knew? I saw on your youtube channel many videos of you speaking in a whole range of languages, how many is it exactly?
Hey there,
I would say between 40 -50 languages up until this point. Which ones are you studying?
40-50 languages; that’s incredible! I’m struggling with one…
I watched the beginning of your Japanese part 1; seems really helpful. I’m heading to Japan in October, so I’m trying to power re-learn everything I forgot from high school so I can use as little English as possible while I’m there.
I also want to learn Spanish, French and Latin (yes!) at some point in my life. Heh.