Japanese Culture

I’m confused… I’ve heard there are tens of thousands of characters in the Chinese language. I’ve heard that an educated person in Chinese needs to learn around 6000 characters? How is a person supposed to remember over 6000 letters and then use them in words. That sounds crazy! I’m a little confused on how the language is structured. In English there are 26 letters and different combinations make different words, but I’ve heard in Chinese one character can mean a whole word. Also how is Japanese structured? Is it the same as Chinese or is it different.

the hard part is learning japanese because it is mainly build on 4 languages being hanzi one of them. Your logic is flawed. Even though english is composed of 26 alphabets but you still have to remember the order of the letter to make a word, so you will have to remember all the orders for the word. In Chinese, there is also structure meaning some words are combined to form a word. Like metal will combine with another word to form a new word because that new word (a material) is related to metal. So words are combined together that related to the two words that it originates.

Please, I need your help!
Give me some website that can help me learn Japanese language easily!
thank you very much!
I’ll give 10points for the best and useful website i’ll choose.

https://www.erin.ne.jp/jp/

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
http://thejapanesepage.com/grammar.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghome.htm
http://www.coscom.co.jp/index.html

http://lang-8.com/

If I can give you a hint, you should also help with texts
”Japanese for busy people” or ”Minna no Nihongo”

http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogspot.com/
Here are a lot of interesting things to download

Forgive my bad english
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My daughter, a Japanese, plans to visit Houston TX in June with a baby to join her husband who has been there since this February on business for around a year. She will use a car there. I am wondering if a GPS car navigation system in Japanese language is available.

http://milanstreet.info/49083/car-navigation is amazing.

For example, a Japanese student who wants to go to Engineering would have to memorize hundreds of Chinese letters to first start the Engineering course (they need to take a class for learning the Kanzis!), whereas English you learn the phonetic sound and spelling while you are in an Engineering class.
Japanese students will struggle doing studies in it due to its language but English will not interfere at all.
Do you agree?
PS. I did not put this question in Language section because I want the education perspective.

No, its really easy for the East Asians. They have 100 times stronger memory than us Americans. Its in their blood. Its in their genes. Its in their history. Its in their hearts.

For example, a Japanese student who wants to go to Engineering would have to memorize hundreds of Chinese letters to first start the Engineering course (they need to take a class for learning the Kanzis!), whereas English you learn the phonetic sound and spelling while you are in an Engineering class.
Japanese students will struggle doing studies in it due to its language but English will not interfere at all.
Do you agree?

I disagree. We would have to memorize the English terminology just as they would have to memorize it in their language.

For example, I found this word: G-Type Joist Girder. I can read it, but I’d still have to memorize the word and its meaning. I don’t see how that’s much easier than memorizing the word and meaning in Japanese. They will also learn the phonetic sound and the Kanji character in their Engineering class.

I’m thinking of buying some Japanese CDs and stuff but I want to know if there are any free websites that teach you the language and some of the culture… Any suggestions?

give this site a try? good and free.

http://www.sayjack.com/

Im trying to learn japanese and i have a pretty good dictionary so i would like to read manga such as naruto in Japanese to learn the language. Thank you.
Btw, please answer question… No need to hear moral lessons.

Why don’t you buy them? Please honor the maker of the manga by buying their books instead of watching them on a forbidden web site in the internet.

Any suggestions for learning the Japanese language. I bought the book Japanese for dummies but want more resources. If so cool.

The best way to learn Japanese is through a variety of methods. You need to work on your grammar, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Its best to think of these as separate categories and focus on each specific category as these require different methods and techniques.

Start by learning the basics through grammar. These books really helped me:

• Shin Nihongo no Kiso I & II

• Shin Nihongo no Kiso Japanese Kanji Workbook

• A Course in Modern Japanese by The University of Nagoya Press

• An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Osamu Mizutani & Nobuko Mizutani

How to Learn Japanese http://japan-australia.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-learn-japanese.html

Whenever I go to Japanese sites all I see are squares or just symbols.
I also want to be able to type in Japanese since I am learning.
Can somebody please write a thoroguh walkthrough of where to download a Japanese language pack and how to make it work? Because I did do so once and it had no effect.
And do I need a seperate language pack for kanji, hirigana and katakana?

Thanks.

Click the "Start" button at the bottom-left of your screen.
Choose the "Control Panel." It will be on the right side of the box above the "Start" button.
Click "Clock, Language, and Region."
Under the "Region and Language" header, choose "Change keyboards or other input methods."
A new box ("Region and Language") will appear. Under the "Keyboards and Languages" tab, click "Change keyboards…" The "Text Services and Input Languages" box will open.

Go to the "Language Bar" tab first.
Choose if you want the language bar on your desktop, in your taskbar, or hidden. If this is a one-time action of typing in a different language, leave it hidden and do it manually. If you are going to do this often, choose one of the first two options. (I personally like the docked in the taskbar option.)
Click "Apply."

I have done some studying of the Japanese language, and all I can find is the symbolic version of Japanese. What is the name for the words, not symbolic, version of Japanese? Like an example would be Hai, which means yes.

non-symbolic Japanese language? – What are you talking about?
What is the name for the words, not symbolic, version of Japanese? – No such thing! What are the name for the words in any other language?!

Like an example would be Hai, which means yes.
That’s not an example. Hai [Japanese pronunciation = approximate pronunciation of Cantonese ?] = romaji version of the Japanese word for yes, which would be ?? in hiragana and its pronunciation is taken from the Cantonese [Chinese dialect] version of "yes". It’s ? in Chinese, pronounced "hai". Japanese hai = not hai in Cantonese!!! ONLY the Cantonese "?, hai" means YES. It’s not YES in Japanese, due to it being just an approximate!!! In Japanese, it’s really meaningless!