Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if learning how to speak Japanese, but not learning anything else ( Writing etc ) is hard? Also, how fast one can carry a casual convo and not be fluent per say? For instance, going out to a Japanese dinner and ordering food with casual conversation.
For me, German was easy to write, but to speak it, was much harder. I am a native English American. I’d have no interest in learning the writing vocabulary much, unless it translated to my goal of just casual speaking.
I am asking because I am looking at holiday deals on certain places to learn, but not sure which is best.
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Ordering food is a pretty predictable thing in any language, so that’s not necessarily hard to memorise. But to have a casual conversation is a much taller order. If you just want to say basic stuff like ‘I’m from America’ ‘my name is’ that’s learnable in a crash course sort of thing. Anything more complex will take a lot longer. And if you actually want to learn Japanese to the point of speaking casually in a natural way we’re talking several years
i’d say if all you want to do is “set phrases” then you don’t need to read/write.
“o genki desuka?” “kore ha ikura desu ka?” “kore wo hitotsu kudsai” etc
I’d say beyond that “phrase book” level, you need to advance the other skills. You’ll just be making things super hard for no reason if you don’t.
Out of curiosity, what “holiday deals” are you looking into? From timing, i’m guessing maybe wanikani?
Pimsleur and Asimil.
oo nice, 3 posts about this in 1 day. This must be a new record