Japanese Final Tomorrow...

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Yeah, so who knew Japanese was such a hard language to learn. I have to get a C on this final to get a C in the class. I've gotten like 2 C's in my life (I'm a 2nd yr. Junior at Uuniveristy of Florida), so hopefully I'll get my 3rd one and not my first D. Wish me luck guys!!! Now to bed 5 hours earlier than I usually do.
 
My Japanese final is tomorrow also, but I'm not worried in the slightest. A classmate and I will do some roleplay, and then be interviewed seperately. No big deal.

Good luck to you. Is this your first semester studying the language?
 
Yes, and the final is tomorrow... I've done all the talking I can... but hey at least my Japanese teacher is HOT. I'll try to get some pictures for you guys. :wink:
 
Just go watch alotta subbed anime and you'll slowly catch on. BTW nice avatar Kirin Lemon "the Paper" kicks ass.
 
I've been studying the language for about four years, myself. I'm bordering on fluent, which feels very rewarding. But maybe you deserve that C or D if you look at your teacher like that... *shakes head*

Thanks, twanky! Yomiko rocks, hardcore yo. Though I'm sure you were making a joke, 'cause watching anime is definitely *not* a good way to learn Japanese if you have no basic knowledge of the structure or male and female speech patterns to begin with. Formal teaching is the way to go, or you'll just end up with a whole bunch of Japanese schoolgirls pointing and giggling at you, instead. My friend found this one out the hard way, heh heh. Eh, I suppose it's not so bad for building vocabulary...
 
I took Japanese for 5 quarters @ my school (1 quarter shy of 2 full years) and I loved it. I got up to the semi-advanced level (about 30 new kanji every other week) but I never really found it to be all that hard (I got straight A's in all 5 classes)....maybe b/c I had some experience w/Spanish so I was used to the concept of verb conjugation and what-not....

I wish I could've continued studying it, but I wouldn't have been able to graduate on time so I had to give it up. Oh well. I should review just for fun....

Good luck on your test and study harder so you can get A's!
 
It's my opinion that they change the meaning for some japanese words every other mone and 3rd thursday just to befuddle us non japanese.

I tried learning the language on my own before with some off the shelf books and was making headway but it's really a language you have to stick with or you loose it, I could never recall it fast enough to have even a slow conversation. One japanese person I spoke to with it actually said I sounded like I was speaking "children's japanese". now I can only randomly pick out a word or two (and a few curses) in anime.
 
you guys are lucky all we had in highschool was spanish, french, and i think german not to sure. Taking japanese in highschool definitely would have been awesome.
 
[quote name='Panda']^_^

If you think Japanese is hard, take Chinese. *dies*[/quote]

Having learned both languages, I'd have to say that Japanese is a lot harder to learn than Chinese.

Chinese has the intonations that are hard to pick up at first, but you get used to them. And the writing system's pretty tough but Japanese has the same thing in Kanji, except Kanji characters can sound completely different depending on the context or the word. Also, compared to Japanese, Chinese has almost no grammatical structure.

On top of that, throw in 2 more alphabets, politeness levels, layers and layers of grammatical structure, differences in female and male speech, a million non-Japanese words they adopted and twisted the pronunciations of, and strict social guidelines and formalities of speech, and it's not even a close race. No, I'm not a Japanophile or Japanese/Chinese, so I have no bias.

I think Chinese might come off as being harder than Japanese to first time students because the concept of the different intonations is so foreign to them and they're thrown immediately into the Chinese logographic writing system. While in Japanese, you're eased into Hiragana and Katakana first and then slowly introduced to a few Kanji characters at a time. But keeping track of all the characters and rules get pretty tough in the higher level courses.
 
I find Japanese harder than Chinese, but only because I'm Taiwanese and already speak the language. That being said, Japanese isn't too difficult, especially an Intro class.
 
yea i couldnt imagine how hard japenese must be, personally i struggled with french. i took 2 years and hs and both years were the only times i've ever gotten C's. infact i was pretty glad to get those cause i came pretty close to failing both. Both the teachers were fuktards. after the first year, i was so glad it was over i came into my 2nd year all excited thinking the teacher couldnt b any worse....wrong, she was much worser. anyway, im glad thats over, those 2 classes were hell, for both me and my bro. v both took them at the same time, neither of us have ever gotten c's but its just something about that class. its not that the subject itself was so hard but the fuking teachers.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']French is a joke to me, I'll have taken it for 5.5 years at hs graduation. Will be taking Japanese in college.[/quote]

My advice...don't unless you've had some previous experience in japanese. Starting a new language in college is harder than you think. I took 3 years of german in high school, aced all the classes, started taking Italian in college and have been kciking myself for 2 years now. Chances are you'll be required to take a language, but don't think for a moment that learning a language in college is even near comparable to taking on in high school. My advice is stick with what you know and get the requirment done, then if you like take some Japanese.
 
[quote name='pumbaa']Yes, and the final is tomorrow... I've done all the talking I can... but hey at least my Japanese teacher is HOT. I'll try to get some pictures for you guys. :wink:[/quote]

so it wont be a an utter dissapointment if you have to take the class again :)

oh and remember, japanese schools are much better than ours, she's probably grading you to a higher standard than you are used to.
 
I wish I had an opportunity to take Japanese, no schools or colleges in the area offer it.

Only French, Spanish, and Latin.

It is actually EXTREMELY hard to teach yourself a language, especially one involving ideograms.
 
[quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='Dead of Knight']French is a joke to me, I'll have taken it for 5.5 years at hs graduation. Will be taking Japanese in college.[/quote]

My advice...don't unless you've had some previous experience in japanese. Starting a new language in college is harder than you think. I took 3 years of german in high school, aced all the classes, started taking Italian in college and have been kciking myself for 2 years now. Chances are you'll be required to take a language, but don't think for a moment that learning a language in college is even near comparable to taking on in high school. My advice is stick with what you know and get the requirment done, then if you like take some Japanese.[/quote]

I gotta agree. My brother is taking Japanese and struggling, and we're half Japanese!
 
I never found Japanese to be too hard. Of course I suck at it now, and was never too good at the learning the different formal structures. I knew enough to survive in Japan using only Japanese though.

That link is one of the funniest things I have ever seen though.
 
I thought about learning Japanese for awhile, but then I realized it's not worth the effort. Sure I could play some games and watch some shows that I can't currently enjoy, but the time spent could be better spent elsewhere. For instance if I spent the time learning the Arabic language right now there are fairly high paying government jobs with great job security. Also the Spanish language is another one that's better to learn first since the United States is quickly moving towards being bilingual.

The only way I'd probably break down and learn Japanese is if I was moving there, and I can see no reason why I'd want to do that.
 
I took Spanish for 5 years and got straight A's with no effort. I took Japanese for 2 semesters and struggled to get B's. Well, I think I ended up with a B+ in Japanese 1 and an A- in Japanese 2, but I worked my ass off for it. I still remember all of my hirigana and katakana, and a few kanji characters (we learned between 100-150 kanji characters in the second semester) even though I haven't used it in like 2 years.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Wow! It is good luck to get Neko Hime to post in your thread.
I'm sure you will ace the exam now.[/quote]

It must be considering she's already a rank 5 CAGer w/ only 9 posts. I wish I had mad skillz like that. :D
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Wow! It is good luck to get Neko Hime to post in your thread.
I'm sure you will ace the exam now.[/quote]

CheapyD no nihongo ha anmari jyouzu jya naiyo! Mou daibu wasurete ue ni kaita Neko no nihongo mo yomenaishi… CheapyD koso nihongo no gakkou ni ikanakucha ne! :p
 
[quote name='Rig']Good luck! I've considered studying some Japanese...[/quote]

You should, ISU has a decent Japanese program. I took it for 3 years and was quite satisfied that I did. The 1st year teacher is extremely nice.
 
Funny, I took my Japanese final today. We have a pretty hard ass teacher, but I think I did ok. We only had to fill out a full Katakana chart and tranliterate some sentences. Oh yeah, and do math and greetings.
 
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