Rosetta...thief?!?!

[Vyk]

(SPOILER)torrents

Did this years ago. Have yet to make use of it. But I have like 15 languages available now, and a ton of space eaten up on my external hard drive :} For when I'm in the mood to learn a new language

[Citizen Bleys]

What's the huge fascination with learning Japanese?

he asks, on a board dedicated to JRPGs. Furthermore, half of us are anime-addicted otaku

Besides, swearing in Russian just isn't as satisfying as letting out a good "kuso" or "shimatta"

[Unbreakable Will]

What's the huge fascination with learning Japanese?

he asks, on a board dedicated to JRPGs. Furthermore, half of us are anime-addicted otaku

Besides, swearing in Russian just isn't as satisfying as letting out a good "kuso" or "shimatta"

Truer words have never been spoken. Kuso is one of my favorite curse words of all time. xD

[Meat Puppet]

You could keep killing yourself until you’re reincarnated as a Jap.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Yeah. Rosetta Stone is expensive. Lucky me I get it for free. Military benefits are on occasion freaking awesome.

Anyways, I suggest along with listening aids, which can be (SPOILER)torrented, use livemocha.com

Livemocha is a pretty cool site based out of Seattle. It has lessons set up for you to do, and it is all graded by native speakers. The lessons include reading, writing, and speaking. It is an awesome site. I am using it myself to brush up on my German.
Best part, it is completely free.

[Shlup]

I downloaded Rosetta Stone off Demonoid. It's pretty pimp. I finished the first thirty lessons before going to Japan, and it's been useful. You will have to supplement if you want to build your vocabulary faster, and I recommend studying kana separately and learning hiragana and katakana quickly.

I have a list of free resources in the most recent post in my blog, which there is a link to in my sig. I'd be cool and just link them here but I'm on a little netbook in Tokyo and EoFF is kinda slow from here, heh.

[Chris]

What's the huge fascination with learning Japanese?

he asks, on a board dedicated to JRPGs. Furthermore, half of us are anime-addicted otaku

Besides, swearing in Russian just isn't as satisfying as letting out a good "kuso" or "shimatta"

I ask, because it goes way beyond this tiny little board. But like you said, I blame anime for the epidemic.

My mother speaks Japanese, and personally, I don't think it's a particularly interesting language, but I guess people have their reasons for their obsession.

[Meat Puppet]

[Q=Citizen Bleys]
Besides, swearing in Russian just isn't as satisfying as letting out a good "kuso" or "shimatta"[/Q]
I work with a Russian chef, and his rages are the most awesome and frightening things I have ever witnessed.

[Citizen Bleys]

Record one, maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

All of the "diermo" and "na khuy" in the world doesn't take the place of one well-placed English swear word.

[rubah]

God smurfing dammit, bleys.


yeah, that felt pretty good~

[Rye]

Record one, maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

All of the "diermo" and "na khuy" in the world doesn't take the place of one well-placed English swear word.

I've heard that in all of the languages of the world, there isn't one equivalent to the phrase "bull", which is why you often hear people curse in their language and then suddenly throw that in the mix. My grandfather would mix Italian with that, apparently. XD

[Yar]

I'm majoring in Japanese right now.

Don't spend money on Rosetta Stone. It goddamn expensive and you will never be fluent with it. I'd recommend it if you were trying to brush up or were traveling there for a very short period of time, but still not worth the money.

You could try self-study. Depending on your determination and ability to understand what you are actually learning, you could succeed. My best recommendation is meet people who already know Japanese (preferably as their native language). Practicing it in actual situations will make you better at it.

[Unbreakable Will]

Thanks guys! I've found a really good site (i think) it has some nice people and quite a few resources and native speakers. If anyone wants to check it out it's: Study Japanese