Comments on: Fiona’s Top Five Tips for Learning Japanese

By: 破壊はな

破壊はな — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:01:00 +0000

I started learning Japanese when I was 9 and the reason was to be one of those cool translator people who bring joy to those who want to read Japanese lyrics and manga. And, heh, now I wish I had learned Chinese instead… I can never make up my mind… Now here I am a few years later thinking “What IS my life?”

By: Melissa K.

Melissa K. — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:39:00 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful website. I am substitute teaching beginning Japanese here in Honolulu, Hawaii. I am 50 years old and studied Japanese from the age of 12-22 when I took it in middle school, high school and college. Then I virtually spoke no Japanese for 25 years or so when I was raising a family. In the last three years, I took it up again and went to Japan five times in the last two years, four times for community building in the temporary housing in Tohoku after 3/11/11. I have been studying very hard in the last year or so to make up for the lost years when I didn’t speak it. I have reacquired most of the language skills I had in college and learned lots of vocabulary and new kanji. It helps to be speaking it all the time to a native, so I am helping a Japanese national who moved here recently. I have found your website to be interesting, informative and fun! Thank you!

By: Japaneselovingblackgirl456

Japaneselovingblackgirl456 — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Well I want to learn the language because I want to live in Japan someday when I get older. I am only 13 in the 8th grade. I am taking Japanese for 4 years in high school so I could get my Japanese level up from a beginner to advanced. Maybe I will take Japanese again if I go to college to see what I know.

By: Salahare

Salahare — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Time is Finite. You are Finite. Zathras if Finite… this is wrong tool. *rummages around toolbox*

I had to make that obscure reference, forgive me.

By: Diogo Diniz ジオゴジニズ

Diogo Diniz ジオゴジニズ — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Hi Fiona!! It’s so nice to find out you are learning Portuguese! I’m brazilian!! And by the way after I read your first post about Gackt I fell in love for him lol .. Well, my japanese learning techniques are always changing, I think I like that, I’m always taking different methods combined with the formal classes that I have with a japanese teacher who, luck of mine, is really energetic!! So when I started to get bored in the process I just change it all, start to learn the difficult fisrt and go back to the easy… This never-the-same method really works for me and keeps me motivated ;)

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:11:00 +0000

The best way to learn Japanese is to find work at a Japanese company. I don’t think you’ll really learn the language effectively (unless you’re an amazingly disciplined person) until you’re Forced to Learn. After 8 years, I still haven’t mastered Drunken Salariman-Go, but I do read business emails without trouble.