Gonna start learning japanese

Gonna DL Rosetta stone and japanese and start to learn
any tips?

 

Yeah, don't use that Rosetta stone.

 

If you are serious about learning Japanese, you should start learning Hiragana and Katakana first.

 

Seconded.

 

I think Rosetta Stone is a good addition to proper learning. It's an interesting tool, but not THE tool. By itself you'll get pretty much nowhere.

 

Yeah, you should really do this before trying to learn the language properly. Many people try to bypass learning the written script because they claim to be only interested in speaking and listening, but it doesn't work like that.

 

What Alphagamer and Shakey_Jake33 said.

 

I found free printable flash cards for Hirigana and Katakana here. I plan on printing them out and getting as much down before my class in August starts hope this helps.

 

Rosetta Stone sucks. It's a waste of time/money.

 

Yep. I was able to test the Rosetta Stone Program with the Japanese CD and it totally sucked. Never I repeat never buy/use/look at Rosetta Stone. You'll get there a bunch of pictures, for example of a kid, a bottle of water or food. After that the program will tell you how to pronounce it in Japanese.
A couple of seconds later it'll show you how to write the words in Romanji and in Kanji (as far as I remember).

wow...awesome...seriously it's crap. Learning a language is a good thing, you want to learn Japanese ? Cool, but don't use Rosetta Stone. Like la-li-lu-le-lo already said: It's a waste of time and money.

 

My friends swear by a book called Remembering the Kanji.
But like everyone said learn Katakana or hiragana first. Whichever one is easier for you. You will need an actual teacher sooner or later at least for grammar and pronunciation.
I considered this game and attempting to guess the password myself but I left it alone. http://lrnj.com/

 

If you already speak spanish Japanese is a bit easier to learn as the Grammar is almost identical.

 

The grammar is more similar to that of the Turkish language, Spanish is not an agglutinating language for starters.

 

Spanish grammar is "almost identical" to Japanese grammar?

Uhhhh...no.

 

UH YES it is

The Backwards from English sentence structure

 

Backwards from English? Both Spanish and English are subject-verb-object languages...the only thing I can think of that you might be referring to is that adjectives (usually) follow nouns in Spanish. Japanese, on the other hand is subject-object-verb...there are a lot of other features in Japanese grammar, like the fact that it's an agglutinating language like alphagamer said, that make it significantly different from both Spanish and English.

 

I'm just going by what the person who taught me said. Maybe my explaination is missing something his had.

 

Maybe you should actually know Japanese or a damn thing about it before making stuff up.

 

That doesn't really sound reasonable. Spanish has a lot in common with English though, but English hasn't got an awful lot of similarities with the Japanese language.

For a start, Japanese knows no genders. In Spanish, everything relies on that, just as bad for a learner as in German or French.

 

Yeah, Spanish and English both have roots in Latin. Japanese does not. The only thing that's "backwards" in Spanish is the fact that adjectives usually come after nouns, whereas they come before in English. Not really the same thing as the subject-object-verb thing 7Force was talking about.