i am a turkish native speaker.Japanese logic is smiliar to my language compared to english.Should i use english book to learn or just use my own language(we don’t have much source for japanese)?
I am a Turkish speaker too and because there are no many resources in Turkish, I always do my research in English. As far as I know there is only one good website, “https://www.asialogy.com/”, which focuses on teaching Japanese to Turkish speakers. In the past, I bought their book to learn the basics of Japanese then continue to learn on internet in English. You still can understand if you have intermediate or higher level of English. As you may know there are tons of resources on internet about any language.
In short, you can use an English book to learn Japanese in my opinion.
It doesn’t matter very much if you pay attention to what exactly is going on. The main advantage of similar languages is that you need to memorize less, and less often need to make some habits. Let me explain on such example. In some languages relative clause is put after described word like English “the chief who made this dish”, and in some languages it’s the opposite like Japanese この料理を作ったシェフ. In some languages both are possible. On practice if you are familiar with it, you barely have anything to learn and almost instantly acquire 100% skill. But if you don’t, it’s going to take a while to form correct “thinking model”, how words should be interpreted, and it’s not going to be so smooth, especially in more complex sentences.
There won’t be any difference if you read about that in one or another language. Slightly different situation can be something like particles. English doesn’t have many language cases and quite often something very universal in Japanese splits into 5-7-10 different expressions in English, because there is no direct equivalent. In this case even if your native language has something similar, it might be not so obvious at first, but you are still going to benefit, because the idea itself of such usage won’t be completely alien to you.
Thus if Japanese is explained to you in familiar terms/concepts, it’s the best, but even if it’s not, you still benefit a lot, because you are familiar with such ideas anyway and learn faster, than people who don’t know about it at all. Typically people who know several languages learn foreign languages faster, because more grammar concepts are known to them.
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I am a Turkish speaker too and because there are no many resources in Turkish, I always do my research in English. As far as I know there is only one good website, “https://www.asialogy.com/”, which focuses on teaching Japanese to Turkish speakers. In the past, I bought their book to learn the basics of Japanese then continue to learn on internet in English. You still can understand if you have intermediate or higher level of English. As you may know there are tons of resources on internet about any language.
In short, you can use an English book to learn Japanese in my opinion.
It doesn’t matter very much if you pay attention to what exactly is going on. The main advantage of similar languages is that you need to memorize less, and less often need to make some habits. Let me explain on such example. In some languages relative clause is put after described word like English “the chief who made this dish”, and in some languages it’s the opposite like Japanese この料理を作ったシェフ. In some languages both are possible. On practice if you are familiar with it, you barely have anything to learn and almost instantly acquire 100% skill. But if you don’t, it’s going to take a while to form correct “thinking model”, how words should be interpreted, and it’s not going to be so smooth, especially in more complex sentences.
There won’t be any difference if you read about that in one or another language. Slightly different situation can be something like particles. English doesn’t have many language cases and quite often something very universal in Japanese splits into 5-7-10 different expressions in English, because there is no direct equivalent. In this case even if your native language has something similar, it might be not so obvious at first, but you are still going to benefit, because the idea itself of such usage won’t be completely alien to you.
Thus if Japanese is explained to you in familiar terms/concepts, it’s the best, but even if it’s not, you still benefit a lot, because you are familiar with such ideas anyway and learn faster, than people who don’t know about it at all. Typically people who know several languages learn foreign languages faster, because more grammar concepts are known to them.