I used to always have my eye out for articles on “Japanese language hacks” but there was always one yukky theme – something along the lines of “It’s way too difficult a language… it will take you forever so don’t bother if you don’t have a whole lifetime to devote…” blah blah blah. The people who truly know me know how much it “urk’s” me when another visitor to Japan says “You’re so lucky that you speak Japanese.” (Insert head explosion here. So…… if there was a magic little “Japanese language pill” out there….I would have tried to take it already (and the jury is out on whether or not I’d be comfortable sharing that baby around! ….
Speaking japanese for beginners for kids full#
it truly is (and kind of should be) a full time job. It’s true, if you want to be completely fluent…. You can google around everywhere and talk to anyone about acquiring fluency in Japanese and they’ll tell you it’s a long road ahead. Put your energy ( and memory power) elsewhere. probably skip the money amount part too….people in shops can almost always say the amount or it’s on the register display OR they can write it down and you’ll get the idea!! If you’re in a rush to start all of the talking and the listening ….
Speaking japanese for beginners for kids how to#
I hate to break it to you but even a Japanese person who slept through all of their English classes knows how to understand that part in English… So skip those pages…. So you sit down with a text book or in a class and you’ll probably start with the “My name is….” “I’m ….years old.” “I like….” deal. When you learn Japanese it’s a thorough and steady process (completely worth it, by the way, but not the quickest way to learn if you want to start chatting.)Ī fantastic instagram account to follow for “ready to use” phrases is those basics that you think you should probably learn first I really do believe that much of the process of the conversing was slowed down, considerably, by starting with the reading and writing basics at the same time as all of the talking. Once their compulsory 2 year stint was up, they were writing letters to French penpals (remember penpals ?!! ha!), making little jokes amongst themselves and watching glamorously moody movies.Īnd there was me ….working my nerdy bottom off…sitting in the corner saying “ konnichiwa” and “ hambaagaaa o tabemashita” (I ate a hamburger.) I, obviously, went with the first option and – as you’ve guessed- I have no regrets for a moment…BUT I do remember being completely and utterly seething with envy at my friends who had chosen French. When I started high school (called junior high in other parts of the world), we were given 2 years of compulsory language study and my school offered Japanese and French. Then, once you’re out in the world chatting away – you can start the reading and writing part. all the language senseis right now are hating me for saying this…but it’s something I really believe in if you want to start speaking Japanese as soon as possible. Here are some suggestions that, I think, will help conversing in Japanese less daunting:įorget all of the writing and the reading It’s not an impossible mountain to climb – just several teeny, weeny little steps one after the other. My Japanese language studies will never be finished (actually, neither will my English language studies!) but I think the “starting to talk” part isn’t as bad as people fear. I know because I’ve seen the really clever friends that have moved to Japan for only a year or two… taken the shortcuts …and they were proper little nihongo chatterboxes by the time they left.
Especially if you’re already here – because your “classroom” is, obviously, everywhere. I wouldn’t have had anyone to put it into practice with, actually, if I had been able to chat away right at the start.īut if that beginner was me now? …all grown up me now and I was trying to just get that communication element happening as soon as possible? I would do things completely differently – and I think that there are short-cuts. But I was 12 then and wasn’t in a hurry to start conversational Japanese then. I began with the good-old basics of self-intros and then slowly, slowly moving on to hiragana, katakana and then ,a few years later, graduated to kanji. I started studying Japanese at the start of high school. “How to learn to speak Japanese quickly?” Is something that I ponder often and what I do know is what I would do now if I was starting over.
*Warning: Your Japanese teacher won’t like my suggestions*
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