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I guess I should add at least one entry here… :’D
Usually when I learn japanese I try to put my drawing skills to use. I have tablet (thanks to this I don’t waste paper) so I draw mini characters who say japanese words and perform actions – it helps me to remember everything. If I forget the word I just look at the picture and voila! ♡ :D
From left to right:
sugoi! – awesome! , nande? – why? , hai – yes, iie – no

atsui – hot, samui – cold, amai – sweet, koohii – coffee

Apr 25, 2012, 02:19PM PDT | 4 cheers


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zdechlinka no more excuses!

Cool drawing!

One point: when describing weather, atatakai 暖かい does not mean hot, it means warm, mild – in a pleasant way.
The word your character would say is atsui 暑い.

Apr 25, 2012, 02:37PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Sweet_Lemon is alive.

Thank you :)

Ahh what a mistake :-0 (I’m beginner and I have nobody who would like to help me with japanese….) Thanks for help! I’ll try to remember that and change this one :’)

Apr 26, 2012, 02:43AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

zdechlinka no more excuses!

You're welcome :)

It’s always better to have someone to help you when learning a language – especially when dealing with culture sooo different from yours.
If there’s no one to show you what mistakes you make, you might end up saying something inappropriate. And believe me, that’s very easy to do in Japanese :)
(example: even though it seems completly natural to ask someone “what do you want?” in English, you can’t really do that in Japanese, it’s rude)
Do you know Genki? It’s a great workbook, we used to work with it in my first year in university.

Apr 26, 2012, 04:25AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

Sweet_Lemon is alive.

:D

Yeah. I meet a lot of people online and we become friends but I’ve never met Japanese :( I always encounter Canadians, Americans and Finns (I guess it’s my destiny…) :D
(eep, I don’t want to offend anyone :[ )
Ah no, I don’t. I’ve never seen it in any bookshop so I’m not sure if we even have it in Poland… :-/ I have thin book with audio course (there’s alphabet, sentences and basic vocabulary (food, colours, diseases etc.)) and I’ve ordered japanese-polish dictionary some time ago – I guess it’s useful, because under every word there’s an example how it should be used in sentence. And my Grandma bought another dictionary for me ♡ But it doesn’t help if I don’t know the rules of grammar XD

Apr 26, 2012, 05:04AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

zdechlinka no more excuses!

Well, now I feel kind of stupid for still writing in English since I do speak Polish fluently.. :)
(But on the other hand switching to a different language than English seems a little unfair to some potential 43things readers. :) )
So anyway.. it might not be the best way to do it but try and look the Genki book up for download, it’s pretty much everywhere.
And a good tip for kanji textbook – Basic Kanji Book.

Apr 28, 2012, 03:25AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

BKB and Genki - ameki
:> - Sweet_Lemon
:O - Sweet_Lemon
:D - zdechlinka

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