Are there any Japanese learners that are in high school? Particularly teens. (19 doesn't count… - Feed Post by Bradlefty
Are there any Japanese learners that are in high school? Particularly teens. (19 doesn't count because you might've graduated by now, unless you started school late). If so, do you prefer studying online or taking high school classes that teach Japanese? Do you find one thing easier than the other? What is the class version like? In class, do they teach you everything like: reading and writing the kana and kanji, grammar, and how to speak it? If you never studied online, did you happen to become (mostly) fluent in Japanese after learning it in class? Well, that about does it for my questions for these young learners. I was once you. Like 2 years ago.
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ah, if only my high school still offered japanese as a class. from what i heard, the guy that taught japanese left the year that i entered high school. as a middle schooler, i was an avid anime watcher, and then i first started learning hiragana and katakana. now that i think about it, anime was primarily my main source of learning japanese. i never learned about the "wo" particle in any lesson or class, as i have a memory of asking my japanese friend "kore ha tabe masu ka" and he corrected me, saying "kore wo tabe masu ka" at that time, i thought he just said o. well, he did just say o, but it was wo. i became fluent through watching lots of anime, but i still don't know how i got so fluent just from that, because i only started using online kanji learning stuff and grammar guides a few years after i first learned how to write hira/kata kana, and by then, i already knew about this "o", but then i learned that it actually was "wo."
i say fluent, but i can get stuck really fast if there's some vocabulary i don't know. if i do know it though, i can speak really well, or at least in my opinion, since i don't have a noticeable accent.
i guess my young brain was able to form the framework for japanese
tl;dr: i never took any classes, i just watched a lot of anime, realized i could speak it pretty well, and then started learning to read, write, and speak it.
その面白いストーリでした。
Is that how you say "That was an interesting story."?
Anyways, congratulations at attaining fluency in Japanese. I've always thought learning Japanese from Anime is impossible because:
1) You're reading the English subtitles while disregarding the Japanese words the characters are saying. (Unless you're paying attention to the scene and not the words at the bottom)
2) I think it's hard to hear what they're saying at first because your listening skills are not used to it unless you've been practicing your listening skills.
That's all I gotta say. I find it impressive that you learned Japanese from Anime. The Kanji and grammar learning sure helped.
Bradlefty> In basic Japanese (To simplify the understanding of newbie students) is taught that you have to "invert the order of a sentence" comparing to English, so when trying to speak a really simple (And pretty polite) sentence, you should say「そのストーリは面白いでした」as to "That was an interesting story" (Lit. That story was interesting). (About your sentence, this is the right one, below is just a complement)
Though, in Japanese you don't have to use any specific kind of order of elements in a sentence, it just need (Always) end in a verb to be right (And polite), so you should also write in the same way you just wrote, but a bit different「面白いでした、そのストーリです」for example
However, i'm a totally impolite speaker and i should just say「そのストーリ、面白い」or「これ、面白い」
About attain fluency from anime is indeed pretty hard but not impossible. On the other hand, i don't use anime for studying but just as a complement to it. Same as for doramas, music, and etc. If you learn grammar and a basic vocabulary you should become fluent soon. I usually watched Japanese children's program in television when i start to studying Japanese and it really helped me, it's also great to practice when you become a average speaker.
