Learning Japanese

[teachopvutru]

No money to sign up for it XD

[Nagato]

But you can still get the free podcast from your iTunes ^_^

[teachopvutru]

How do you get the podcast? O.o ... I have iTunes but I never used it

[Kyuusai]

Originally Posted by tiachopvutru

How do you get the podcast? O.o ... I have iTunes but I never used it

Click on the iTunes Store, and do a search for it. Despite it being in the "store", the podcast is free.

Or just go to http://japanesepod101.com

[WanderingKnight]

^ But you can only have a 7-day trial if you don't want to pay. Otherwise, you'll need to cough up the dough.

[Kyuusai]

Originally Posted by WanderingKnight

^ But you can only have a 7-day trial if you don't want to pay. Otherwise, you'll need to cough up the dough.

That's only if you want the PDFs and other material. The audio (the most valuable part) is free.

If all else a person wants are the PDFs and access to the download center for downloading many lessons at once via bittorrent, the monthly fee is modest.

[Syaoran]

Just a little question... how do you say sleepyhead in Japanese?

And... do they know the formation of noun by composition like Dutch, German, French, English ... ? (don't know the right term English ^^' for "samenstellingen")

[WanderingKnight]

Just a little question... how do you say sleepyhead in Japanese?

ねぼけ　(neboke)

And... do they know the formation of noun by composition like Dutch, German, French, English ... ? (don't know the right term English ^^' for "samenstellingen")

Hmm, kind of, if you could consider kanji compounds as word compounds.

But, they do combine a couple of words to form a "new" word, the thing is, it's just a common combination and not really a new word. For example, verb compounds are extremely common and many have particular western meanings, but at the end of the day, it's just putting together two verbs (the first, main one, in te-kei and the auxiliar in normal form).

[Syaoran]

Originally Posted by WanderingKnight

ねぼけ　(neboke)

Hmm, kind of, if you could consider kanji compounds as word compounds.

But, they do combine a couple of words to form a "new" word, the thing is, it's just a common combination and not really a new word. For example, verb compounds are extremely common and many have particular western meanings, but at the end of the day, it's just putting together two verbs (the first, main one, in te-kei and the auxiliar in normal form).

Thanks ^^
I wasn't really sure at all for ねぼけ...
In my dictionary I found half-asleep and it's verb 寝ぼける (to be half alseep). That's where I started wondering it was a combination of ねぼける and one of the on or kun reading for 頭 for example.
Didn't find anything ^^
This one is certainly easier than what I was looking for.

[Nagato]

Try http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/
or http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/:
眠たがりや，寝ぼう.

[WanderingKnight]

In my dictionary I found half-asleep and it's verb 寝ぼける (to be half alseep). That's where I started wondering it was a combination of ねぼける and one of the on or kun reading for 頭 for example.

You can say 寝ぼけ顔　(nebokegao), which would imply that the person referred to looks sleepy. It's essentially similar, but it's not really an insult. If you want a stronger version of ねぼけ, you can do the usual combination and add やろう to it, and it would be more appellative and rough.

寝ぼけ頭　doesn't appear in my dictionary, but IME transforms it in kanji as a single element, which makes me believe it's an accepted use.

Man, I just heard a bit of the japanesepod101, and man that guy is lame. And the girl, she confirms my theory that states there's nothing funnier than an untrained Japanese trying to speak English

[Syaoran]

Hehe ^^ Good to know.
Also, thanks for those links.

I'll keep my focus on polite speech for now

[Kyuusai]

Originally Posted by WanderingKnight

Man, I just heard a bit of the japanesepod101, and man that guy is lame. And the girl, she confirms my theory that states there's nothing funnier than an untrained Japanese trying to speak English

True on both points.

It is an invaluable resource, though, especially for the self-taught at the beginner level.

[FatPianoBoy]

Does anyone know how to set up your computer to type in different Japanese fonts? I've been typing Japanese for a while, but I only have one font.

[The Lord of Dark]

thanks a lot .. 5 years ago i search about it in my country , but i didn't found any thing , i see it's a difficult and interesting language,

your faithful 4 ever

[Ewok]

Originally Posted by FatPianoBoy

Does anyone know how to set up your computer to type in different Japanese fonts? I've been typing Japanese for a while, but I only have one font.

Different fonts like Arial, Comic Sans, etc fonts?

[Red Herring]

I have to take a language in college in order to get my BA. 4 semesters...I'm thinking Japanese but can anyone tell me what University Japanese is like? I mean I'm thinking they probably move at too fast a pace in order to learn anything...its probably more like "just learn what you need to know to pass the test."

[Syaoran]

I study Japanese at university and it's intensive... sometimes too fast... but you get to know in 1 year what you'd learn in 4 years of evening course.
4 hours of grammar
2 hours of kanji
3 hours of sakubun / reading comprehension
3 hours of aural comprehension

We use the textbook A course in modern Japanese from Nagoya University Press.

[harudasakurada]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

I have to take a language in college in order to get my BA. 4 semesters...I'm thinking Japanese but can anyone tell me what University Japanese is like? I mean I'm thinking they probably move at too fast a pace in order to learn anything...its probably more like "just learn what you need to know to pass the test."

I'm taking Japanese 102 right now, and, yeah, it's gone pretty fast. In 101, you had to memorize hiragana and katakana in about a week or so (so learn them beforehand), and in 101 and 102 combined you learn a total of 150 kanji.
However, I still think the grammatical concepts are pretty easy to grasp, so I don't think we're rushing through anything. We're using Situation Functional Japanese and going through 6 lessons a semester.
Basically, if you study a lot outside of class, you shouldn't really be in a situation where you're just trying to cram enough to pass the test, although really all depends on how well you can pick up the language.

[FatPianoBoy]

Originally Posted by Ewok

Different fonts like Arial, Comic Sans, etc fonts?

Yes, that's right.