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| Helvetica Diglot Newbie Greece Joined 4578 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: Irish | Message 1 of 4 24 May 2012 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
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Hello, I am new here, my question may sound a bit stupid (or even worse: be in the
wrong sub-forum!), so I apologize in advance. As a language enthusiast, I always wanted to learn an Asian language and since I am quite into Japanese culture (mostly mythology and folklore; cinema as well) I decided to learn it. By myself. My first question is whether this is possible or not, given that it is quite different from what we are used to, here in the West. My experience with languages is limited to Greek (which is my mother tongue, but you already know that, I guess), Ancient Greek, Latin, English, limited French, very basic Irish and some Turkish. Now, I know Turkish is agglutinative like Japanese, so the grammar might not be so alien to me. So, what courses do you suggest? Any books? I already know how to read and write the kana (too much free time I guess) but any help on the subject would be appreciated. Regards, Helvetica 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 4 24 May 2012 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
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Sure it's possible, especially if you have some experience with languages, as you seem to have. I strongly recommend partnering up with a Japanese person, maybe one learning Greek, so you get decent exposure to real language.
I used Teach Yourself and Genki when I began. I also enjoy japanesepod101 podcasts. The rest I learned here and there and with language partners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Helvetica Diglot Newbie Greece Joined 4578 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: Irish | Message 3 of 4 24 May 2012 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, exposure is always important. Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to find a
native speaker, although I do have a friend who has a certificate of some sort. I will look into Genki! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6650 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 24 May 2012 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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I think that the ancient languages can be of some help with japanese as some of the particles somewhat resembles
cases. Wo accusative, ni dative and locative, de locative and instrumental, to commitative, etc. etc. as well as the verbal morphology has passive, optative, causative, and various forms of conditionals. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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