Thread:Uncle Nimu-Dash/@comment-29731532-20160903011939/@comment-27347196-20160904213119

"Shortcuts to learning Japanese" believe me dis thing is already cancer of its own in here!

Lame cancer, but cancer nonetheless and as such it has qualifications for use of dis page. Still in future try to bring more fun now eh?

Anyway enough of me being ass and back on dis thing.

Listen Binky-boy, I got no clue what is your native language but one thing I'm sure Japanese ain't and as such knaji isn't your default writing system and as such you aren't familiar with hiragana nor katakana at all in here. Am I right? So if you are learning new language dat is way too different then your own in any way, then there are no "shortcuts" Binky-boy. There is only real desire, willpower and patience in here in order to learn it. Therefor sorry but you will need to learn first how kanji system works and THEN you can go to how to say what in here.

"But uncle Nimu I don't give single f about learning any of dat I just wanna know how to talk in Japanese blah blah blah" listen Binky-boy, you or anyone else in general with dat kind of viewpoint, if your "I wanna learn" is only dat thing in translation only to learn something half and skip important parts you consider as useless or you think you won't need, don't don't even bother with it.

Plus here is spoilers regarding it, learning kanji first and foremost is SHORTCUT TO LEARN JAPANESE IN FIRST PLACE! Memorize just single kanji symbol and what it stands for and dear Binky-boy you are already capable of recognizing more words with it alone then you are aware of. Lemme give you example in here for you to better understand what uncle is saying:


 * 平和 - peace
 * 調和 - harmony
 * 違和感 - uncomfortableness/to feel uncomfort

Ok now tell me, in all three different examples what do we see to be same in here? It is "和 (wa)" symbol am I right? Now despite all three having different meanings and being different words, what is thing they got in common with each other in here? Well we can pretty much say it kinda describes atmosphere you could say as if in spiritual way. So knowing this symbol and remembering with what kind of words is related to describe what will help you well recognize many other words and help you guess their meaning by just recognizing this little symbol in them. So see now what I've been telling you? How learning kanji is important and how it is an actual shortcut in here? Which is why I again repeat, going with writing system before words is way more important.

Now anyway I'm not going to teach you.

Don't get me wrong Binky-boy not because I don't wish to help you out but because learning another language takes a great deal of time and I'm in no mood to give "private lessons" on internet and especially TG's wikia of all places in here. So sorry, my advice again get private lessons, learn writing system and try to memorize as many symbols as you can and what they are for, then try to test it out by picking up some book and testing yourself of how many symbols can you spot and try to make sense out of them. Again actual desire to learn, willpower and Goddamn patience boy! Don't expect to learn a thing over single night. Sorry our human brains are lame and don't have dat good of a memory therefor it is gonna take a time to learn it.

Personal advice take it as you will and do with it as you wish: Don't even bother with trying to learn it!

Learning new things is always great and good for your brain and it is good to know many languages because it is good to be knowledgeable, don't take me wrong in here, but learning new languages is extremely time consuming and even money consuming (assuming you will go for private lessons) and wasting both your time (lot of time in here) and even money on thing you will never even seriously need is like buying car you will never drive in your life and have only as mere decoration in here. Dat is how learning language you most likely will never actually need in your life looks as. Same as that car. Our lives are short as it is and as such I suggest trying to spend your time more onto more productive things that you will need in your life instead.

Not discouraging you in here again, I think it is great you wish to learn, just giving you personal advice in here as someone who wouldn't bother with languages in first place if my stupid work didn't require of me to know them. So once more, if you are trying to learn it just for sake of it and to hang it on wall when you do, then don't bother.

But you know best you and as such do as you will with what I said. Now dis discussion is over. Case closed.