Speaking English/Engrish!

[lovesjoyajm]

Not even close.

Agreed. Never tried to learn Japanese, but German has a LOT of similarities to English. They don't call English a "germanic" language for no reason.

TheKissPolice - the best way to get better at speaking a language is by speaking it as much as possible. It DOESN'T MATTER if your syntax is bad - people will understand you anyway. The more you speak to other people and listen to them, the more random useful things you will learn about the language and soon you will become used to using them yourself, but the only way to do it is PRACTICE.

If you can find something similar, I recommend a Tandem program, where you can be paired with an English speaker who's learning Japanese, and spend half your time together speaking English, half in Japanese. That way you both get to practice, and it's a pretty low-pressure situation. I have two such partners for German and even though I've gotten past the point (FINALLY) where I'm shy talking to new people because of the language barrier, it's very good to have someone who you know will help you and give you suggestions.

[anachronistic]

Agreed. Never tried to learn Japanese, but German has a LOT of similarities to English. They don't call English a "germanic" language for no reason.

TheKissPolice - the best way to get better at speaking a language is by speaking it as much as possible. It DOESN'T MATTER if your syntax is bad - people will understand you anyway. The more you speak to other people and listen to them, the more random useful things you will learn about the language and soon you will become used to using them yourself, but the only way to do it is PRACTICE.

If you can find something similar, I recommend a Tandem program, where you can be paired with an English speaker who's learning Japanese, and spend half your time together speaking English, half in Japanese. That way you both get to practice, and it's a pretty low-pressure situation. I have two such partners for German and even though I've gotten past the point (FINALLY) where I'm shy talking to new people because of the language barrier, it's very good to have someone who you know will help you and give you suggestions.

yes, if you look around on the internet for forums (if you spoke german you could go to [url]http://www.englisch-hilfen.de[/url]) and find people to chat with. many people want to also learn japanese, so you could do one of those things where they speak to you in japanese and you respond to them in english. i do that with many germans and russians.

[TheKissPolice]

Agreed. Never tried to learn Japanese, but German has a LOT of similarities to English. They don't call English a "germanic" language for no reason.

TheKissPolice - the best way to get better at speaking a language is by speaking it as much as possible. It DOESN'T MATTER if your syntax is bad - people will understand you anyway. The more you speak to other people and listen to them, the more random useful things you will learn about the language and soon you will become used to using them yourself, but the only way to do it is PRACTICE.

If you can find something similar, I recommend a Tandem program, where you can be paired with an English speaker who's learning Japanese, and spend half your time together speaking English, half in Japanese. That way you both get to practice, and it's a pretty low-pressure situation. I have two such partners for German and even though I've gotten past the point (FINALLY) where I'm shy talking to new people because of the language barrier, it's very good to have someone who you know will help you and give you suggestions.

nice,thanks

[Junket]

Do you have Teamspeak? Download that and we can talk, and you can try to learn from that.

[Kiechi]

I'm planning on learnin' Japanese in september and Italian during my leisure time.

[anachronistic]

I'm planning on learnin' Japanese in september and Italian during my leisure time.

i tried to teach myself the japanese alphabet. i first learned hirogana, then katakana... and when i found out that there was a 3rd alphabet called "kanji" and it consisted of than 2000 letters, i said **** that.

[Kiechi]

i tried to teach myself the japanese alphabet. i first learned hirogana, then katakana... and when i found out that there was a 3rd alphabet called "kanji" and it had more than 2000 letters, i said **** that.

Great Lilwing, I'm looking well forward to Uni now haha.

[anachronistic]

Great Lilwing, I'm looking well forward to Uni now haha.

you're just graduating high school? aren't you like 24?

you might like the 2000 letter alphabet. with someone, like a college professor teaching you, also might make it more fun.

[Kiechi]

you're just graduating high school? aren't you like 24?

you might like the 2000 letter alphabet. with someone, like a college professor teaching you, also might make it more fun.

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[anachronistic]

HAHAHA, that means you are in the same grade as me

[Kiechi]

HAHAHA, that means you are in the same grade as me

Yeah, I don't see why that's funny though.

[anachronistic]

Yeah, I don't see why that's funny though.

me neither. o_0

[Ephemeral Dream]

I want to learn German... I'm almost fluent in french... sort of anyway.

[anachronistic]

I want to learn German... I'm almost fluent in french... sort of anyway.

:-/ I am fluent in german, so if you can speak a little german i can help.

[TheKissPolice]

Do you have Teamspeak? Download that and we can talk, and you can try to learn from that.

dude i just downloaded it,its pretty cool