Japanese

[SethSquall]

Originally Posted by Squeek

It's just annoying. You learn it, so you learn that it's for politeness, right? It's just not appropriate for a forum setting like this. To me, "desu" puts a "sir" or "madam" at the end of your sentence. Find someone on the forums who does that.

Politeness is what I'm used to. It's what I'm taught and it's what will be in the Exam. Both writing and listening. So it's best I learn to speak that way first. I understand what you're saying though dude, I don't say please/thank you/sir/madam and stuff on here in English. This is for learning purposes though really. I would much rather learn this way and cancel out any unnecessary politeness when I'm much better at the language. Sorry if it annoys you that much though =/

Originally Posted by nestlekwik

These are more for brushing up on what you know already, but I have found these to be great tools in keeping your hiragana and katakana sharp:

http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html - this lets you do "flash card"-type recognition of hiragana, katakana and kanji where the character is shown and you select its romanization (or vice versa). It is browser-based and not too intensive.

http://lrnj.com/ - this is the infamous Slime Forest game. Slime Forest is an RPG you download for the PC where to attack enemies, you have to type in the romanized forms of katakana and hiragana. Fun stuff.

I suppose if you had enough will power to memorize the characters from these tools, they could actually teach you the characters, so if you are willing and can do it, more power to you.

Thanks man. Oh and rock on with the Flash Cards and the RPG they'll help out loads. Thanks for those too.