From: Greg Pederson <greg.pederson@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T09:43:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Learning Japanese

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I don't know Japanese, only a couple of expressions that I learned when I
was traveling to Japan for work, but I'd maybe recommend trying Rosetta
Stone <http://www.rosettastone.com/en/individuals/languages/japanese>
If you're OK, with the online version check your local library.  I am going
through the Turkish lessons, albeit slowly, online for free with my library
card.  I went to the library website, did a search for rosetta stone and
then was able to log in and have access to all the languages offered.
Greg

On 1/19/07, Gerardo Santana G=F3mez Garrido <gerardo.santana@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
> Thanks to Ruby I've learned a lot recently about programming languages
> and it has widen my universe of things I want to learn. These things
> include Japanese.
>
> I've compiled a set of URLs to sites of Japanese tutorials.
> Pronunciation seems easy, from my Spanish background, and even though
> I'm confident I can teach myself Japanese, I also think  that learning
> it with the help of another human would be nicer, especially if she is
> a nice Japanese girl ;-)
>
> The questions are, what was your approach for learning Japanese? Did
> it work? What would you recommend?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gerardo Santana
>
>


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