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We will absolutely tackle these languages. We're releasing German for English speakers currently in order to learn better how more customers respond to the meth
by schacon 9y ago
We will absolutely tackle these languages. We're releasing German for English speakers currently in order to learn better how more customers respond to the methods we're using, and German is more complex grammatically for English speakers than romance languages. Also, I didn't speak any German and I think it's important to use your product yourself.
Personally I want very much to return to Japanese myself some day. As I mentioned in the post, I studied it for several months. It is an interesting question of how best to approach learning kana and kanji, since that's a pretty difficult thing to get fast at. Memorizing a few hundred symbols isn't super hard, but getting so good at them that you can sight-read takes a lot of time and can be frustrating.
I would disagree that learning any language is easy enough, with or without learning a new writing system. That's sort of like saying that learning the piano is easy enough compared to the violin, just because it's always on key. It's still a lot of work before anyone wants to listen to you play.
No matter what language you learn, if you want to become somewhat fluent, you need to memorize several thousand abstract words, new sounds, new grammar rules, etc. It's always a lot of work in absolute terms. I only bring this up because I feel that it's somewhat harmful to say learning a language can be "easy". It often results in people trying to learn, inevitably finding out that it's still a lot of work and then giving up while blaming themselves for being "bad at languages".
- BronSteeDiam 9y agoYou should have a mailing list. I would like to be notified when my target language becomes available.
- schacon 9y agoYou can go to our signup page and choose "Another Language" and it goes into our waiting list. Then when we release new languages we'll likely contact you first to see if you want to be a beta user. https://chatterbug.com/signup https://chatterbug.com/signup
- dicemoose 9y agoIs it important to learn the kana and kanji at the same time as learning how to converse in Japanese? I'm a native speaker, but it was a lot easier to learn kana and kanji because I already was able to speak some Japanese. Also, I hope you try some immersion Japanese again. :D
- thewhitetulip 9y agoYes, learning Kana and Kanji is very important. You'll learn Kana in less than a week but it takes time to learn Kanji. there are 2136 characters which are high school level. I followed this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/6q4h6a/a_year_to_learn_japanese/dkuskc2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/6q4h6a/a_... What I have done so far: 1. one chapter of Genki Elementary I 2. 60 Kanji via memrise and "remember the kanji" 3. Given up on Duolingo till I read Genki 4. Use an app called LingoDeer, it is awesome. 5. Started watching Japanese anime. Haven't understood anything but "thank you" and "good morning" yet.