Language Learning 101 discussion

Welcome everyone that wants to learn Japnese!!
If you need any help..Free welcome to ask! You may need to translate..But for the first lesson I might put the words in brackelts..
Here we go:

Konnichiwa, (Hello) domo arigatou (Welcome),watashi wa Skye desu. (I am Skye)
Now I want to hear you saying that!
Your first lesson..
-Skye!!

Hey........ I wanna learn Japanese!

Konnichiwa!
Watashi wa Ipshita desu.

I wish I could also learn to read Japanese for those mangas that are yet to be translated in English. It's mostly because of Japanese mangas and animes that I've become interested in this language. Nice to meet everyone :)

Ipshita wrote: "Konnichiwa!
Watashi wa Ipshita desu.

I wish I could also learn to read Japanese for those mangas that are yet to be translated in English. It's mostly because of Japanese mangas and animes that I'..."

Not even those raw mangas can convince me to learn the wriggly letters :P...only romanji for me...

@Fong: When your favourite mangas take 2-3 years for the update of one chapter, you would know the true meaning of frustration (>.<)

konnichiwa, yoroskiku!
Watashi Martin...

im also doing introduction to japanese in http://www.memrise.com/home/

is that ok????

its teaching me a bit of Kana now after learning 25 vocabes/ phrases

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Xandra desu

Arigatou gozaimasu! (I think that's right... I went to Japan over the summer but I probably failed)

that is cool

omg so many vowels and recognizing them is hard

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Crystal

Hey, Skye, do you mind if I ask you how much Japanese you know?

^

Aww..
I was hoping for kanji or something like こんにちは。

Arigatou gozaimasu (Thank you) for everyone replying...
@Celia: If you want I can do kanji if you would like that to??

@Emberlynn: Um..I suppose alot..Why??

Yes I knew it! *dances around happily* I knew arigatou gozaimasu meant thank you!

@Skye, I was just wondering. I just needed to know if you could teach the entire language or not. Just the scale of your knowledge.

I know alot which means I can teach 95% of the language at the moment but by the end of the month..100%.
So??

Starting next lesson in 2 hours..So good luck!!

Skye wrote: "I know alot which means I can teach 95% of the language at the moment but by the end of the month..100%.
So??"

I just wanted to know. That's all.
And I guess Kanji would be necessary to teach because it is, after all, part of the Japanese language.

Konnichiwa
Watashi wa Alexia desu :)

Great work u guys!!
I'll put the nxt up shortly?

Kana characters! That's what they are called! ^.^
The words you're teaching now is romanization :3 I think..

Romanization?? What does that mean??
Um.. Do you care if I kind of shorten my words just a bit...Like wht and nxt??

And what do you guys want 2 learn next?? I can also send you links for youtube so you can learn quicker..

Ideas:
Age
Days of week
Parts of Body (NO rude parts silly people)
I'm up to anything...

Skye ~Pro-Crastinator!~ wrote: "And what do you guys want 2 learn next?? I can also send you links for youtube so you can learn quicker..

Ideas:
Age
Days of week
Parts of Body (NO rude parts silly people)
I'm up to anything..."


I want to learn a set of vocab over a coarse of a weeks but by then the end of all that's we can form sentences from all that was learned during that coarse...

Konnichiwa, watashi wa Natasha desu :)
Romanisation is when you write Japanese in the Latin alphabet, like I just did :)
Do think you could start teaching kana and kanji? So when you introduce new phrases you could use Japanese writing and Romanisation? I've not learnt much Japanese at all, but maybe you could write a list/ link a chart of hiragana, then katakana, then start introducing some common kanji?
In terms of topics, the ones you said sound good :) Introductions seem a good place to start- name, how are you?, age, where we're from etc.
How long have you been learning Japanese? :)

ii, yoroshiku...

いい
よろしく
　i dont even know if thats right..

Kon'nichiwa, watashi wa gūguru ga kore o okonau ni wa hon'yaku shiyō shite imasu, watashi o kinishinai!

[Hello, I am using Google Translate to do this, don't mind me!]

Konnichiwa, watashi wa Anne desu.

I would like to learn some conversational Japanese. Thank you for taking your time to do this!

Nxt lesson: How 2 say Happy Birthday,

Otanjōbiomedetōgozaimasu P.S My 14th Birthday is Friday-11th July...

Nxt lesson 4 speedys: Numbers 2 10,
1. Ichi
2. Ni
3. San
4. Shi/Yon
5. Go
6. Roku
7. Shichi/Nana
8. Hachi
9. Kyu/Ku
10. Ju

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Iesha desu.

You can count the numbers with one hand. :)

This is a good site to practice Hirigana/Katakana: http://www.aeriagloris.com/LearnJapan...

Good for general: http://laits.utexas.edu/japanese/josh...
http://easyjapanese.org/kanaquiz.html
http://www.learn-japanese.info/lesson...
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/...
http://japaneseclass.jp/trends/list/all
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language...

Japanese Verb Conjugator:
http://www.101languages.net/japanese/...

Allows you to type in Japanese:
http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/hir...

Hey guys sorry I haven't been on lately. Its all be messed up a bit. Anyway nice to know we still wanna have some learners.
My posting will continue as I love it still.
Next lesson will be about colors. I will post a link also If you wanna practice. Lesson will go up next. Sorry guys and Good luck!!

Colors in Japanese:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs9Ls...
I made a chat here:

English Romaji Japanese Characters
(red) aka 赤 あか
(yellow) kiiro 黄色 きいろ
blue) ao 青 あお
green) midori iro 緑色 みどりいろ
purple) murasaki iro 紫色 むらさきいろ
orange) orenji iro オレンジ色 オレンジいろ
peach) hada iro 肌色 はだいろ
pink) pinku / momo iro ピンク / 桃色 ピンク / ももいろ
brown) cha iro 茶色 ちゃいろ
black) kuro 黒 くろ
white) shiro 白 しろ
gray) nezumi iro / hai iro ねずみ色 / 灰色 ねずみいろ / はいいろ
light blue) mizu iro 水色 みずいろ
yellow-green) kimidori iro 黄緑色 きみどりいろ

Also what kind of things do we wanna chat bout in the conversations?

-Skye

Skye wrote: "初めまして！私はスカイです。イギリス人です。

(I hope that's right!!)

...At the moment I don't really know how to say anything else useful for a conversation — the book I'm using is teaching daily routines at the momen..."

Thanks other Skye
And your doing well