Comments on: Learning Japanese

By: xiexie

xiexie — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:07:58 +0000

pretty ignorant comment if i do say myself

By: 020200

020200 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:40:07 +0000

Haha, it depends on the context..

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:31:37 +0000

I see. Do you call a computer mouse a rodent as well?

By: 020200

020200 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:12:48 +0000

> Yeeeah, I wouldn’t really compare programming languages to human languages. They are both so very different.

Well, I think the difference is, that I do.

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:30:55 +0000

Yeeeah, I wouldn’t really compare programming languages to human languages. They are both so very different.

And hey, I have no time either. But every journey begins with an App…

By: 020200

020200 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:40:15 +0000

Nice plans! This sounds totally interesting to me and made me a little jealous as well. But I won’t have the time to learn the japan language. Don’t let bring you down, especially by the people who say “oh, that such a hard thing to do”. It took me years as well to learn a whole bunch of programming languages and structures, but meanwhile I think I achieved speaking different programming languages “fluently” and in everyday use.

A context-sensitive language like japan language, that sounds totally interesting. Source Code is also often depending on context. I thought also a lot about “Metaprogramming” that somehow is rooted on the programming language “Ruby” (from Japan as well). Just like the japan language you can go “up the abstract-levels” all the time – until you reach most expressive power with very few code. You can guess most things. But if you forget the things to guess, it is almost impossible, to review in the source code, because it is too encapsulated to be read. Often you will be better of studying the context and make educated guesses, based upon logic and grammar.

By: Gustav Dahl / Wikzo

Gustav Dahl / Wikzo — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:53:15 +0000

Some years ago I tried learning it as well, but gave up due to other things I wanted to learn in my life + I had to learn Spanish in school (which I never did, anyway).

I bought some books, a Nintendo DS games and other things about the Japanese language, but I found the most effective way of learning in actually using the language in a real practical manner.

I found this Japanese guy who runs (or ran, I don’t know anymore) an online course in which he teach people his language. Although I never completed the course, I think it was a very good way of learning.

You can find a website about him here:
http://www.freewebs.com/megumisan/index.htm

… but his main site was stored on Yahoo! GeoCities which was turned off some time ago :\

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:37:02 +0000

Well, I just started this weekend and you are busy all the time anyway.

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:36:09 +0000

I don’t really think I will need books for the kana. It seems manageable at the moment. But the Kanji are certainly daunting. I might grab the book when I get there. Right now, I’d rather not think about all the next steps further down the line.

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:32:50 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

5-10 kana at a time – yeah that’s exactly what I think I’ll do for the next weeks.

I heard about the Slime Forest. Might be the perfect thing for me to try. But the graphics REALLY turn me off. :/