I'm just wondering about some statistics here. How many people on this site know some Japanese. I think it's pretty common for people to at least know how to read hiragana, and sometimes katakana. But I don't actually know how true that assumption is, so I thought I'd make a poll to get a little snapshot of what the reality is. Answer the poll, say something if you find my poll doesn't properly express your natural state. I gave you the option to make multiple choices, so just fill all the buttons you think reflect your situation. Thanks Edit: I find it quite interesting that hiragana and katakana have the same number of votes, since I definitely took far longer to actually learn katakana than with hiragana. I definitely expected to see it around 70% of the votes hiragana gets.
Where's my favorite 'OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU' option?? PS. I'm in JLPT N4 level lol. I stopped learning since I didn't have any time to Edited to add paragraph below: (If you can read it, you know enough, WEEB) "Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about watashi, you chiisai bitch desuka? Watashi'll have anata know that watashi graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and watashi've been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. Watashi am trained in kanji, and watashi is the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to watashi but just another weeaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has neber meen mimasu'd before on this continent, mark watashino fucking words. Anata thinks that anata can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, watashi am contacting watashino secret netto of otakus accross the USA, and anatano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu's the pathetic chiisai thing anata calls anatano life. You're fucking shinimashita'd, akachan."
I guess so. I considered having two options for kanji, but since they merged into one I guess. I'll add it for you
Hentai. Seriously though I took Japanese 1 or something in high school, but I barely remember it. I think I know some of the basics and some others.
reading it? nope. Speaking it? Greetings, numbers 1-10 and maybe bodging together a few (probably wrong) phrases is about it.
I had a Chinese fellow in my Japanese class. They found kanji quite easy to understand, but man did they struggle in reading it in Japanese. From what I can tell, it's similar but definitely not a one to one conversion when it comes to certain different kanji conjugations.
bits and pieces. Even before I tried learning, I knew some words from anime, you know, baka, mizu, oni, neko, inu, that sort of thing.
Took a semester at my local community college a while ago. Would pass on the advice from a friend to learn hiragana & katakana if anyone is considering taking a class, or not. Only took me like 30 minutes with the drag and drop game from whichever site if that's still around. If you're gonna take a class and don't know them, you're like a week behind right out of the gate.
Oh yeah, I went into my class knowing how to read hiragana and katakana, and boy was it a life saver. My teacher is quite a nice person, so they at least gave the students about a week for the students to learn them each, but you just can't really get it to stick in that short of a time without going through some major grind.
Note that having that skill makes a first year Japanese class quite the breeze, if you take a bit of time going over hiragana and katakana before hand. Was a great GPA booster on my part, getting out of the class with a 99
why no jap seem lonely? fine this cat will take it~ this cat have zero ability to make conversation on Japanese~ write and speaking language~ used to learn hira and kata but cuz never use it such thing been forgotten~ tbh lost interest hence too lazy to care
I believe the Japanese know more English than I know Japanese if they can explain this picture in English. I doubt I can ever explain THIS in English, much less in Japanese. This was an English listening test or something in Japan. 英語リスニングのニンジンくん is apparently the meme.