15 Responses for "Learn Japanese with your PSP! Well, sort of…"

1. Kishor

   July 25th, 2006 at 1:31 am

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2. xen ix

   July 25th, 2006 at 7:44 am

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   I’ve read that the best way to learn Japanese is to learn katana and not kanji. Because when you know katana you know how words are spoken and can easily learn romaji to know what is written.

   And katana has 46 characters, kanji has 2,000 characters that is approved out of 50,000.

3. Danny Rho

   July 25th, 2006 at 9:40 am

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   It’s Katakana, not Katana.

   Katana is Japanese word for ‘Japanese sword’.

   Katakata is what they use to read and express

   foreign language. Kanji is basically Chinese

   characters. A lot of Kanji is exactly same as

   non-simplified Chinese character.

   Basic characters of Japanese would be

   Hiragana and Katakana.

   First thing you learn is Hiragana

   and Katakana. To learn Japanese, you should

   learn both Hiragana AND Katakana, learning

   Katakana first, and only, won’t necessaraly

   help you to pick up Japanese fater or easier

   either.

   Not learning Hiragana is not an option.

   You must learn Hiragana and Katakana and

   eventually Kanji as well.

   Japanese characters are basically couple of

   different variations of simplified Chinese

   characters.

4. Jonathan Wagakusei

   July 25th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

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   I must express extreme bewilderment at the phrase “[O]ne of the most basic Japanese alphabets, Kanji.”

   And I wholly agree with Danny Rho.

5. Spengs

   July 25th, 2006 at 2:12 pm

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   Yeah, I’ve been a serious student of the Japanese language for going on 5 years now, and my one major set-back is STILL kanji. I know about 300 characters, but that’s just a drop in the ocean when you consider that to at least read a newspaper one must learn the “basic set” of approximately 2,000 characters. I consider kanji to be the most difficult part of learning Japanese. When I visited the country last year I discovered that practically NO places, signs or anything has furigana for any of the kanji. You either know it or you’re screwed, making it very difficult to learn yet absolutely essential.

   So in other words, this PSP program is a good thing.

6. xen ix

   July 26th, 2006 at 1:07 am

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   @ Danny

   I meant to write kana to refer to both katakana and hiragana. I was dead tired yesterday after work. :D

7. Danny Rho

   July 26th, 2006 at 1:39 am

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   No worries, Xen ix.

   Just tryin to get the right info out there.

   Cheers.

   -D-

8. Jonathan Wagakusei

   July 28th, 2006 at 9:56 am

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   Yeah, place names are terrible because they basically follow no rules. Either you use know them or you don’t. Insane.

   Me, I want that DS Japanese-education program. I want that bad, I do.

9. repdetect2

   July 30th, 2006 at 2:51 am

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   Jonathan,

   What DS program are you talking about? This leads me to yet another subject, I have always wanted to learn japanese. What is the most proper way to do so?

10. paris

    August 11th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

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    repdetect2, you could get software 4 ur comp on the net, or u could buy an electronic translator.they get expensive though! they make software 4 pocket pc’s 2! check it out. (just helping!)

11. paris

    August 11th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

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    repdetect2, also- google search the words “learn japanese” and they will give you tons of web sites that will teach u, or translate 4 u.

12. rdawg5

    September 21st, 2006 at 1:01 am

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    the best way to learn japanese is to incorporate speaking and hearing it. you can do all the book learning or computer learning, but you won’t be able to use it unless you make it feel natural; otherwise you’ll be learning rote language.

13. Yaghz

    November 25th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

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14. Alan

    December 18th, 2006 at 8:31 am

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15. nanje

    August 1st, 2008 at 9:24 am

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    nice i wanne try it….but i really dont now how i get it on my psp and where i can doawnlaod it