Lakkhamu Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 5246 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English, Turkish* Studies: Latin, German, Russian
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Hey everyone. I'm a Turkish student and I'm really into languages. I'm currently learning Latin and German, but many people have encouraged me to learn Japanese. They said the grammar really fits with Turkish, but I think I'm proficient in learning grammar (though vocabulary usually creates problems) so it won't really matter. The problem in my head is, though, is the writing system too hard to learn? And what book (preferably with audio) can you advise me in order to study Japanese (without being >30$)? Thank you.
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 2 of 27 17 July 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
I know lots of Turks who speak great Japanese. One guy I know passed the jlpt 1 after just two years of
study so he could attend Japanese university.
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Lakkhamu Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 5246 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English, Turkish* Studies: Latin, German, Russian
| Message 3 of 27 17 July 2010 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
Thanks! And how is the writing system? Is it composed of Kanji's like the chinese system? I heard there were 1945 Kanji's to memorize (much less from the 5000~ required to learn Chinese but still..)?
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Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5784 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish
| Message 4 of 27 17 July 2010 at 6:07pm | IP Logged |
The best thing for learning the basics for Japanese is slime forest.
Japanese being similar to Turkish...I've been told that by Turks before.
But Japanese doesn't really have much in the way of grammar wheras I've heard Turkish grammar is rather hard so...I dunno.
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Lakkhamu Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 5246 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English, Turkish* Studies: Latin, German, Russian
| Message 5 of 27 17 July 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
You add series of suffixes to words for Turkish. The longest word is Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız, which means it seems that you (pl) are among those who we failed to manage to turn into Czechoslovakians. I don't know if it's like that in Japanese, but I heard that Japanese cases are extremely similar to that of Turkish, also bearing the same syntax.
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chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5450 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French
| Message 6 of 27 18 July 2010 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
Tyr wrote:
The best thing for learning the basics for Japanese is slime forest.
Japanese being similar to Turkish...I've been told that by Turks before.
But Japanese doesn't really have much in the way of grammar wheras I've heard Turkish grammar is rather hard so...I dunno. |
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I thought Japanese grammar was quite similar to Turkish?
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 7 of 27 18 July 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
Tyr wrote:
The best thing for learning the basics for Japanese is slime forest.
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Hardly.
Tyr wrote:
Japanese being similar to Turkish...I've been told that by Turks before.
But Japanese doesn't really have much in the way of grammar wheras I've heard Turkish grammar is rather hard so...I dunno. |
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Japanese doesn't have much in the way of grammar? Who told you that one?
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 8 of 27 18 July 2010 at 8:32am | IP Logged |
Lakkhamu wrote:
Thanks! And how is the writing system? Is it composed of Kanji's like the chinese system? I
heard there were 1945 Kanji's to memorize (much less from the 5000~ required to learn Chinese but still..)?
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It depends what your goals are. There are about 2,100 kanji now on the Joyo list, but you'll need to know a bit more
than that (around 2,500) to be fully literate.
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