Do you the Japanese learn in the same way as kids as to how we do, IE, Picture books, cartoons, etc? If so, Can you buy like picture books for 3+ year olds online? aka Grade 1. It's not for a kid, It's for me. I'm getting there with the speaking but reading I'm having trouble with :thumbsup:
There are, of course, children's books but if you're learning Japanese they're not that suited for you imo. They're also kind of boring. Just pick up some light novels, manga, that sort of stuff and start reading and translating that stuff. A LOT more interesting and the huge amounts of furigana should help you along nicely. If you're really studying I could also recommend some text books that contain a lot of texts suited for practicing reading, we use them in University.
You can buy western stuff in Japanese. My son's books are mostly in English but he does have a few Thomas the Tank Engine books in Japanese.
My kid watches Mickey Mouse in Japanese (except when I flip it). If you want to get better, get some somewhat young-ish, but not too young manga. Junior High level stuff will likely still have furigana. Make flash cards. Go over them every single day.
I tend to read issues of coro coro comics as they help with my reading & vocab. Well that & the fact i love keshikas kun & dangerous jii san Coro coro is not too bad as it has furigana over the kanji & seeing as most of the strips in there are game or anime based it makes fun reading, lol toilet humour i love it so hehe.
Import a JPN DSi and get this... http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/kd5j/index.html I'm not learning (need to but I have too much else I need to do) but I use this from time to time to look up things.
No, they learn in a completely different way - mostly by running their fingers over specially carved stone monoliths, having vocalizations hummed into their chests (this now often being done by Walkman-sized electronic devices rather than a person), setting vibrating tuning forks to the bones of the skull and jaw, etc. It really is quite strange when compared to how Western children are raised.
I know you're attempting to be funny but if you look at the basics of education, comparatively they are about as different as you described, just with different examples. The sad thing is it continues on all the way up through at least Uni, and I would gander higher education.
I know you're attempting to be funny but if you look at the basics of education, comparatively they are about as different as you described, just with different examples. The sad thing is it continues on all the way up through at least Uni, and I would gander higher education.
In good book stores you can buy bi-lingual novels. Original Japanese version on the even pages, translation on the odd pages.
