From: Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T12:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Learning Japanese

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:03:25 +0900, Gerardo Santana G坦mez Garrido  
<gerardo.santana@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

< Snip >

> The questions are, what was your approach for learning Japanese? Did
> it work? What would you recommend?

It all depends upon how you learn, although there are a few techniques
I can highly recommend:

*) Learn Hiragana and Katakana, do not spend much time on Romanji.
    Doing this will really help you pronunciation, plus it will help
    you out a bit if you go to Japan.

*) Take a course at your local university / community college.

*) Go to Japan.


I took Japanese at university as my language requirement.  I found the
beginning grammar so much easier and different than the other
languages I studied that I really enjoyed studying it.  From that I
decided that I did not want to what I learned to go to waste so I
managed to find a way to work in Japan.

Good luck!
Zev