Comments on: You think Japanese is hard?

By: Damir

Damir — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:41:08 +0000

Quote from your text:
Unfortunately, your brain has been so thoroughly messed up by English that for some reason “karaoke” looks like “kery-okay”.
— end quote —

Well, it reminds me of the ubiquitous praxis of pronouncing “karate” making:
1) second “a” sound like the “a” in the American “can’t”
2) “t” sound like the “tt” in (again!) American “little”
3) “e” sound like the “ee” in “see”

By: japper

japper — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:33:09 +0000

I found a good website, which helps remembering Japanese words.
http://www.remword.com

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:19:35 +0000

comment 13… sumimasen…

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:18:26 +0000

OH OH OH i forgot, i was reading the comment number three… u definetly can´t say neko and arimas in the same phrase if u r meaning the cat to stay alive lol… so beddo no ue ni neko ga IMAS… well excepting that the poor cat is dead O.O :(

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:11:43 +0000

Very funny, I don´t find Japanese hard, is quite easy excepting for the 32.000 kanjis from where you should learn about 2000 to be at the level of a japanese college student. Is true that many japanese people can´t speak english right but my professor is amazing, he does speak a perfect english, he is good in spanish but better in english, BTW I´m from Venezuela and in case you don´t know where it is (and that´s mostly what will happen) we speak spanish, and spanish is harder than english and than japanese so I find myself very lucky learning it first than any other language

By: Armando

Armando — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:29:01 +0000

Hello, it was quite funny to read your post. I made the resolution to learn japanese, because, for someone who speaks Spanish, the pronunciation is literal, quite different is the case of English and French.

I think many people in these days are studying Chinese, I found more Chinese courses than Japanese courses.

Thanks!!

By: DAY

DAY — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:28:47 +0000

Hi! I just wanna say that I wanna learn Japanese totally!! I’m really excited about this language!

By: neuropakho

neuropakho — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:54:52 +0000

As an advanced student of Japanese I completely subscribe to what’s outlined in “You think Japanese is hard?”. I’ll say even more:
The reason why Japanese is not only difficult, but also annoyingly difficult is because IT IS UNNECESSARILY DIFFICULT. I can properly say that JAPANESE WRITING SYSTEM IS STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID, and only Japanese people don’t want to see how chaotic, nonsensical, and unstructured it is.

Beginners, don’t do it. Don’t study Japanese. It’s not beautiful after five years. Believe me.

By: 姜

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:33:12 +0000

他の皆さんのように、自分が色々な言語しゃべれるよって自慢することなく、いつもさりげなくさらっと英語でJapanese/Chinese/Koreanについて語るのが最高かっこいい！私はただただ’すげぇ’しか言えない。You are a genius.How did you realize so much things?
你是谁? 怎么这么神啊? 收我做你的徒弟吧!

By: Godie

Godie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:53:40 +0000

This is really really funny. You are not only a good teacher but also a good comediant. Thanks for posting things like this. Its interesting what the first comment says because theres a lot of japanese people that only talk to you because you seem to know english, and if you talk to them in japanese they ignore you and keep “speaking” in english. I dont have anything against japanese people at all but I just hate this kind of people that see you as a tool for them to learn. (Sadly in Japan are huge amounts of this kind of people). Keep teaching us, and making us laughf. お願いいいい