From: Damian Terentyev <threeeyedfish@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T16:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Learning Japanese

Good day!

On Jan 20, 2007, at 03:03, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote:

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

After learning kana I recommend to learn kanji with "Remembering Kanji" 
by JW Heisig or maybe you have a Spanish book that uses a similar 
approach (I've done well with Russian book "The Way of a Bird Without 
Tail" — the idea is to use imagination for mnemonics of kanji).
I've been learning Japanese by myself for two years but considering my 
laziness I ended with poor vocabulary and about 400 kanji (I didn't 
have Heisig's book then) though good grammar. Now I somewhat stopped 
but I think I'm going to continue my study if I have an opportunity to 
find a native Japanese speaker. It's hard to master colloquial speech 
without that.

Your sincerely,
Damian/Three-eyed Fish