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How long does it take to learn fluent Japanese?

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vexx:
Anyone can learn how to speak/read any language at quite a high level (being able to travel independently and communicate with ease) with intensive study of anywhere from 3months-12months. Though to be 'fluency' you need far longer than this, most people can be good at a language and claim it to be fluency, there is a big difference as you really need to live in the country for a long time to be considered fluent. Unless you have studied chinese or know chinese, japanese will be towards the other side of this purely due to it's written language being very difficult.
Romantic languages are far easier and it's possible to be speaking one of the easier ones like Spanish or Italian with a high level in a few months depending on your willingness to work.

Cthulhu:
I only know one Japanese word besides SEPPUKU.
Hādosekkusudezāto and even then I think its a non-word.

IntoTheNewWorld:

--- Quote from: nabbiechan on August 21, 2010, 02:43:44 am ---If I was only born as chinese. :( Funny thing is, I'm 1/3 Japanese but I don't know how to speak in the language. That's why I'm having a self study, but I might try learning it in uni if i can.

Although it's not that hard for me in regards of the pronunciation. I'm only learning it since May (I've been stopping every once in awhile due to overload of school works), once I get used to it and actually used them whilst talking to my friend, It tends to get easier except for the writing. It's also helps when you watch animes, and listening to music.  :smitten:

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That's awesome good luck :D

The thing with Kanji is, the more you know, the easier it becomes to learn more, because the components of radicals that make up the Kanji come up again and again, so you get used to seeing them.

What resources are you mainly using to learn Jap? Self learning a language is a hard road, but it's so much easier these days with the internet :D I was self learning Mandarin during VCE, but damn SACs and study kept getting in the way =[

IntoTheNewWorld:

--- Quote from: vexx on August 21, 2010, 06:27:24 am ---Anyone can learn how to speak/read any language at quite a high level (being able to travel independently and communicate with ease) with intensive study of anywhere from 3months-12months. Though to be 'fluency' you need far longer than this, most people can be good at a language and claim it to be fluency, there is a big difference as you really need to live in the country for a long time to be considered fluent. Unless you have studied chinese or know chinese, japanese will be towards the other side of this purely due to it's written language being very difficult.
Romantic languages are far easier and it's possible to be speaking one of the easier ones like Spanish or Italian with a high level in a few months depending on your willingness to work.

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This is very true. As native English speakers the Romantic languages are 10 times easier than Japanese =[

Of course when you become pro at Japanese, Chinese and Korean become much easier :D

vexx:
^ Yep, Japanese aids Other asian languages, but English aids some parts of Romantic+Germanic languages :)
Haha i'm like you, trying to self-study a language, mine is probably appeared due to the boredom of all my subjects, but i try not to do anything but it's difficult to resist >_> But i'll self-study over summer as ill have so much time!
There are sooo many resources out there to learn languages, and you just have to find the right one for you and then a few months is so realistic to obtain a high level in anything! (maybe not written for asian languages if you've never done them hehe)

I really want to learn Japanese, but it is so difficult to learn the written that i'll wait for a couple of years;)

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