Yeah, subs are great, but knowing the language is better! To all you self-taught people out there, WHAT IS THE FASTEST WAY TO LEARN JAPANESE? one that doesn't cost too much, and easy to do...

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2003

Answers

Find someone that can speak Japanese and is willing to help you learn. Try to speak only Japanese to them and practice often. It also helps to have some kind of text book to help you because even if your Japanese speaking friend is fluent in Japanese, they may not know where to start when trying to teach it. ^_^

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2003

it took my cousin 7 years of really hard work to learn how to speak full japanese. He lives in japan now too he does anime voice acting (in japanese). I dont know what he has done so far, but i am going to tokyo this summer with him! he will try to teach me how to speak/read some japanese and he will show me how a real anime is made. i will be leaving july 11 but i will still post here. I better bring my laptop though, i dont know how to use japanese comps

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2003

If you have nothing to do in the meantime, you can go to < www.japanese-online.com > and go through the lessons. They're free so don't expect too much from it.

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2003

The fastes way to leran japanese is to be around it, that simple. I learned alot of words from watching anime in japanese, subbed. I also got a book to not that much money you can prob go to a libary and check one out this is where i got mine i also got this one program off kazaa it seems stupid but it really works! I can speak pretty good sentnces and understand bits and pieces of words.

-- Anonymous, May 31, 2003

Theres a show on PBS That shows Irrashai Japanese? I think it still comes on in the morning so its best you record it? If its not there just go to irrashaijapanese.com -Later

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2003

dont forget, it also depends on ur ability to grasp a language. if u cant grasp it easily, then itll take longer, and more effort. also, itll be hard because u will have to learn a whole new alphabet, but its a worthy task to take on, just not an easy one.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2003

watch alot of anime or japanese stuff

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2003

well,i took an online japenese tutoring class and now i have this small "yugioh translater" program going on.

-- Anonymous, June 12, 2003

If someone drops you off in Japan in the middle of street

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2003

Yes yes, total immersion is the way to go. But buying and trying to read a lot of Japanese comics (if you can a least read hiragana and katakana) can help you to to learn and retain some Japanese because you are applying it in an interesting way (well, mostly I'm just desperate to understand the stories, but it really helps me...)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2003

if u've ever spoken an asian language (esp. Chinese) it really helps to learn. so, hopefully, u're chinese/vietnamese/korean just FYI

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2003