Japanese!

[Rooiehaan #2]

I am currently living in Europe, and learning Japanese -but its not going well.
Is there anyone interested in teaching me some Japanese? (maybe i could help you out with something as well?)

My current level is elementary Japanese.
I know hiragana as well as katakana, but i've got problems with learning kanji.

Is there anyone out there interested in helping me out? :3

[Suraru]

nope

[Taria]

Suki= love
Kirai= hate
Domo origato= thank you
Baka= idiot
Frogs go kero kero kero kero!

[Suraru]

My ex called me baka a lot....

[Taria]

did she ever say Daisuki?

[BlueLight]

Hime is basically princess.

[Taria]

so Orihime is the princess of Bleach?

[BlueLight]

Sadly yes... Just a sec i'm going to check the manga and see if ichigo randomly dies.

[Rooiehaan #2]

guys, i really appreciate the help; but i need someone to help me with learning kanji; not the standard anime vocabulary Dx

so if anyone can help me learn these: http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/self/genk ... to-wwkanji
thank you

[Gorbaz]

I seem to recall one guy on here being japanese. Can't remember his name, but had the av of an anthro judo hare

[suki888]

I am currently living in Europe, and learning Japanese -but its not going well.
Is there anyone interested in teaching me some Japanese? (maybe i could help you out with something as well?)

My current level is elementary Japanese.
I know hiragana as well as katakana, but i've got problems with learning kanji.

Is there anyone out there interested in helping me out? :3

anji is really a hard thing to learn, were just the same..

[Rooiehaan #2]

D:
you're studying it too?
maybe we can study together :3?

[BreathofFire]

My best friend is in Japanese in the 400's classes or something close to that i chat with him a lot, i could try and get him on here though he may not umm like this site per say he is very much Japanese, humble this site would not fit his personality to well but i could try and get him. He taught me well enough... trouble is thinking of a way to get him on here lol. i can help a little though i am more Cantonese and that won't help much, that and i am in Japanese 200 so i still got a ways to go.

[Rooiehaan #2]

Hahaha yeah that would be awesome!
or if you could help me out, that would be superb too :3

[BreathofFire]

i will do what i can then just tell me were you need help on and i can kinda make a plan from there.

[Rooiehaan #2]

Kanji, mostly. boy, kanji really is hard D:
i know hiragana and katakana already, and that wasn't all that hard. But seeing a whole lot of tiny lines thrown together and seeing a word in it... impossible Dx

[BreathofFire]

Well to start off kanji is the Japanese word for the simplified Chinese writing system Hanzi
with that said you have to now take in the fact hiragana and katakana are both in a way romanized
andromaji is what should be avoided if you can as most native speakers usually do as they don't study the alphabet lol but that's more obvious...
keeping this in mind now Chinese is tonal language there for kanji is as it's really just simplified hanzi instead of traditional which takes more time to write...

alright so how to memorize? start of with the ones that look like the objects you are familiar with they are not hard to find as almost all are... the best thing i can tell you is practice drawing it.
the ones that are really good example bellow
Ki
tree

as you can see it's logical in a way you add a tree to change the meaning to a larger "tree" in a way a lot of kanji are like this

though like in china where you go one place and the word is said one way and in another place another said another, this is where you don't learn Chinese and how you say it but just how it's written.

[Rooiehaan #2]

ah, that makes sense!
but there are a lot of kanji or hanzi that arent that logical
for instance, in between and to listen.
in between:　間
to listen: 　　聞

If you look closely, you'll notice that they look pretty familiar; the only thing keeping them apart is some extra lines in the middle.
I can't remember which one it was again, but i do recall a couple that look an awful lot like these as well.

And that's where my mind fails me; i keep getting them mixed up T_T

[BreathofFire]

Always make a memory games or blank flash cards one side kanji and if you can the directions of the strokes the other side English this language doesn't learn like English Spanish Latin ect...
memory game
in between 間 there is a box in between the people listen, 聞 the dancing boy in the middle of the parents was not listening.
this is not what they were drawn to represent but it helps a more euro mind memorize this
and yes others for example Moon and sun are similar
moon the first one in my banner is like a dancer more mysterious like the moon princesses as the moon is more celebrated then the sun in china
日sun is a window with out the legs while once again not what the kanji represents actually but an easy way for yourself to remember it.
secondly some words like slang this is where you just memorize as slang really comes with the generations, though i have a few sites on slang if you need.

[Rooiehaan #2]

lol a boy and they're not listening? sounds strangely memorable. Awesome, thanks for the tip :3