Comments on: Four Things You Can Do To Improve Your Japanese

By: Barzillai Blue

Barzillai Blue — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:16:00 +0000

i try to learn and sing along with Japanese songs and/or do Kareoke. This helps me out when it comes to pronunciation. :)

By: kaleem

kaleem — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:59:00 +0000

Hello. I really want to learn to understand japanese as my sole reason to do this is to be able to watch and understand japanese variety shows as they do not have subtitles. I have started the process whereby I watch a j-drama and use google translate frequently. Is this right?

By: Danny Moji

Danny Moji — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:45:00 +0000

I think another 2 ways to be able to improve on learning the language , is the effort and the will to to be better or be fluent with the language.. I did use Pimsluer & Rosetta Stone to help my progress on learning. I would say the most learn came from a cross section of both. Traveling to Tokyo in 2009 was a great motivation for me learn Japanese .

By: Tokyo Wayne

Tokyo Wayne — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:41:00 +0000

Ha that is nothing! I’ve been married to a Japanese lady for over 25 years and my Japanese is really poor. I was doing better but when we started having children I stopped using Japanese so my children wouldn’t learn poor Japanese. Now my kids are fluent and attending normal Japanese schools in Tokyo and I’m getting tried of being illiterate so I’m finally hitting the books again. (Much to the joy of my 9 year old daughter that loves to see me having trouble with simple kanji. We have been in Japan for less than a year, but I’m finding my frustration over being illiterate is overcoming my inability to learn Japanese.
To be honest I don’t think my wife really wants me to improve my Japanese. Well tough bananas to that.

By: luscher

luscher — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:06:00 +0000

wait, really ? and where can one find this serum ?

By: Kelsey Lynn

Kelsey Lynn — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:51:00 +0000

I liked practicing listening by finding videos on YouTube or listening to my favorite Japanese bands.

This brought up an interesting, yet terrifying point for me though. I was listening to THANK YOU!! by Homemade Kazoku, and it’s hard to convey how utterly freaked out I became when I was listening to them. I was like, “WHAT?! WHAT IS THIS, I DON’T EVEN…*cry in despair because I obviously, suddenly don’t know Japanese anymore*”

Turns out it was just the dialect. Yup. I even went to Epcot at Disney World (been a few times), and I like going to Japan so I can talk to the people (because everyone that works in that specific country is actually a native of that country). Plus I like the awestruck look on my mom’s face. But anyway, some of the people the first few times, I had to ask them to repeat themselves or speak more slowly because the dialect was hard for me to understand.

Watching videos and listening to a lot of material helped me because I became somewhat accustomed to the different sounds of different dialects, and even though it will still catch me off guard every now and then, I don’t have to ask people to repeat themselves near as much :D