I just started learning Japanese and it's pretty fun so I learned all the Hiragana and Katakana.
What should I do now? I have no clue what to do.
My goal for the moment is to read an easy manga and maybe listening in the future.

Thanks

NewJapanese13 Wrote:My goal for the moment is to read an easy manga and maybe listening in the future.

So study some grammar and start reading an easy manga right away.

Vempele Wrote:

NewJapanese13 Wrote:My goal for the moment is to read an easy manga and maybe listening in the future.

So study some grammar and immediately start reading an easy manga.

Heh

Or a visual novel. It'd get you started on the listening too, though I can tell you from experience that it'll take a while before you're able to follow the voices (and the grammar tends to be more complicated than in manga).

Or if that turns out to be too hard, you can always memorize ~2000 kanji and ~6000 words first (Remembering the Kanji and Core6k, respectively).

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5110

check it out

ryanjmack Wrote:http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5110
http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear...uxmint_com
check it out

If you're confused as you sound {no offense- most of us were (still are?) around the beginning}, then nukemarine's guide (the above link) may be an incredibly useful structured approach, at least till you find your feet. Even then, it's a bloody solid non-personalized Japanese approach.

But since we're pimping user created content, I'm going to have to suggest taking at look at a very informative grammar guide (with lessons and all) created by a young but very studious user by the name of imabi.


For another VERY GOOD visual, audio and textual introduction to Japanese (seriously, if anything else, watch these at least once to get a nice sensory introduction to Japanese), Visualizing Japanese Grammar.

There is also a user popular free grammar guide. I don't personally recommend using it as a primary resource.

For non-free (depending on your Internet aptitude) resources here are a few books I suggest you look at:

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure

An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language

A Dictionary of Japanese Particles

Japanese Particle Workbook

^ Would you recommend going through IMABI after going through Tae Kim? I tried IMABI almost a year ago but found it was a bit too confusing for a beginner like me. I went off to Tae Kim and noticed how much easier it was to understand.

Allow me to interject myself for a moment here. In totality, my site is more difficult--and thus more confusing for some--than Tae Kim. However, that 's due obviously to the fact that there is just a lot more material. But, for the beginner's curriculum, it is now very different than it was a year ago. The site structure has completely changed, and new levels are to still be introduced to the site in coming months, which will cause the stress of information load to go down. If you've gone through Tae Kim already, it shouldn't be any sort of big leap anymore given your progress and changes having been made on the site.

I still do lots of editing all the time, so if you find something particularly confusing, just ask. Nothing on my site is finalized. So, feel free to ask anything that you want to have more clarification.

Just wanted to say that Imabi is a really great resource and I'm really impressed with it, great job!

I've only checked out bits and pieces of it so far but I do plan to read through the entire thing at some point, even in the earlier lessons I think there are things for me to learn there =)

It does keep myself busy, for sure. I hope you enjoy it. If you have any doubts, concerns, or questions pertaining to any of the material, don't hesitate to ask me. Although it has been proofread by natives at various points in its construction, as it is still a work in progress, new errors or unspotted issues may very well still remain. There are also some formatting issues left from when the site had a different template. So, you will notice random smaller text and yellow splotches.

Because the first 50 lessons were deemed to be so difficult by so many people, I really spent much of this year trying to ease the load on the learner in those lessons but still teach the material present in the site. Edits resulted in the reduction of the 50 lessons in totality by about 50 pages.

There is still a lot to be done, but I hope you find reading the text a wonderful learning experience. がんばってくださいね。