Learning Japanese help

[Kaben]

For any of those that can speak Japanese or are learning (kawashima, siggi et al), do you have any good sources, references or text books that you can reccomend for me to learn from?

I have decided that I want to get a job in recruitment in Japan, but need to learn some basic japanese before i can get any headway. (its for recruiting gai jin into firms, rather than working with japanese candidates. But i will still need japanese to consult with human rescources and managers etc)

My best mate is moving to Japan in January, and i would quite like to head over myself in 8-12 months time.

Any help or reccomendations will be gratefully recieved!

Kaben
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[Kaben]

i will check those out on amazon/ebay etc. I have looked at language books in the past and found it very hard to find a decent one that is easy to learn from.

Having the ISBN for those is usefull, cheers Siggi
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[LewisD]

Always wanted to learn japanese.

How long did it take you to pick it up Siggi? Would you say you've become fluent?

[KevTM]

i think i'm turning japanese, i think i'm turning japanese, i really think so..

easy, wank more!

[Kaben]

I cant seem to find either of those tuttle books I can only find the dictionaries, which is not what i want.

If you see it anywhere pls let me know!
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[LewisD]

Hehe, ok

Would you say you've learnt enough to survive being stranded naked in the middle of ginza on a saturday night?

[Dragonfly]

Is it true that its one of the hardest languages to learn in the world?
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[ProXimaCore]

I've got a little program on my pc that's good for starting out. I used it for a while and picked up the basics. PM me if you want to give it a shot. It's only a little file.

Edit: Ok it's actually about 50Mb so forget what I said...
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[Icey]

Kaben,

I just found 'Teach Yourself Japanese' on my PC in WMA format - I don't mind 'lending' you a copy if your interested. It looks like it's just basic things, but I've never used it.

Icey
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[ROM]

Sorry for offtopic but please let me know for knowledge.
What happens if you come to japan and unfortunately become sick, would medical expense cost as 5 times as us(japanese)?
(we pay 20% of total, 80% will be payed from insurance)
Would it be easy to find apartment house after you come here?
Many of owners of rented houses are not kind to non-japanese and I'm worrying about that.

[Kaben]

ROM:
I would take out personal health insurance to cover me incase something bad happens to me and i will use a gai jin letting agency to sort out a flat/apartment. Ideally i will meet some nice japanese/gai jin people to move in with. I met some when i was travelling and stayed in there apartment for a week in Tokyo! saved me a bomb, and i just cooked for them- im not a bad cook you see.

I will secure a job before i arrive in japan, so hopefully my employer may even help sort out accomodation.

i understand your concerns though, and thankyou

Icey: cheers for that offer, i may take you up on it. im just downloading a "sample" of a language package from the internet. I think its called rossetta stone.
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[Jebus]

isnt the japanese and chinese "tonal" so 1 word can mean totaly different things depending on a slight change in how you say it? cool that you are learning it, i fanced a go at that and will try oneday, i want to learn italian as it just sounds a great laungage and want to vist itay and russian as its sounds cool really angry at times and can read all the cool stuff in old soviet trucks etc
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[jonboy22]

Japanese has no tonality.....

Chinese, well there are alot of different Chinese languages but Cantonese and Mandarin are both tonal I belive.
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[jonboy22]

Ma, MA, MAH,..... music makes me so hard makes me say oh my lord. (sorry couldn't resist a bit of Hammer Time)

I live out in Hong Kong for 21 years and Madarin is super tonal so you have to watch out, but cantonese, if you say it loud enough and aggressive enough, and spit at the end of your sentence, the message will get through...
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