What is the best way to Learn Japanese?

Don't use websites; on the internet, you never know what you can trust, and you'll be getting a much lower quality education.

Ideally, you should sign up for a class or course. Just taking one class a week would help you tons in learning the language; having a teacher to ask questions to and peers to practice with makes a deal of difference. However, this can be a pricey option. If you don't have the time or the money to take a class or course, then there are several good textbook and audio CD packages that can help you learn. For instance:

-Yookoso! http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Yookoso-Invita...

-Shin Nihongo no Kiso http://www.amazon.com/Shin-Nihongo-No-Kiso-I/dp/49... (and the others in this series)

-Japanese Demystified http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Demystified-Self-Te...

As mentioned above, a great way to learn common phrases, pick up on pronunciation, etc. is to immerse yourself in Japanese culture. Anime, manga, music, the works. You'll be able to practice reading and auditory recognition.

Of course, the ultimate, best way to achieve fluency is to visit Japan; if, someday, you decide to apply for the JET program or anything like it, and you make it to Japan, you'll be fluent within a year there (if you work hard at the language before going).

Good luck! :)

Try taking Japanese categories on Saturday. Everywhere I've been consistently host Japanese categories. Check out your neighborhood neighborhood middle. Watching Japanese suggests, dramas and anime will regularly instruct you the fundamentals when you watch sufficient. From what folks inform me, they suppose its convenient. But after they do talk it, they announciate it weirdly do to the truth that they do not have this Japanese accessory.

I learned Japanese via the internet and watching Japanese comedy shows.

I never watched anime, but I watched other Japanese shows. I learned Japanese from lots of webistes, its good to have lots.

The top sites are definately

http://www.123japanese.com/

http://www.about.com/japanese

http://www.japanesepod101.com/

Out of the three..I don't know why you disliked this site, but 123japanese.com . It good, I like it. It has a lot to offer. It seems to touch on topics other websites don't. Some would call this useless information, but if your goal is fluency, then you need to know the stuff it has on it.

Via website I think.

I've tryed books, but they only taught polite Japanese, and outdated terms. Not to mention just the bacis.

I think the best place to learn Japanese is at http://www.123japanese.com/

because it teaches full Japanese and casual Japanese too. There are other great websites but I think this one is the best because its like the other websites, but combined together.

I've heard a lot of bad stuff from people who have taken courses in school for Japanese, Usually their Japanese is very limited and they seem to have a lot of 'gaps' in their knowledge.

Edit: What? Why would you say that? 123japanese is AWSOME! By far the best. Its like tae kims guild + Japanesepod101.com + about.com but free. It has the exact same information but more.

The worst learning website i've seen for Japanese is nihongo o naru. That website is plagued with errors. So tell me, why is it the worst? Is it because you spam yahoo answers with your blog and books and I posted to you on here that its annoying, there for anything I post sucks? You can't even speak Japanese! or recomend a good book.

Those books you recomend all the time , are terrible! and I will tell you why, there are a lot of terms used in them that are outdated, I don't know why you recomend them, the only thing I can think of is to spam your blog, thats all you do. Spam your blog. Your blog serves to purpose to the person who asks questions. Your blog doesn't teach Japanese.

Immersion (watching Japanese TV, surrounding yourself with Japanese speakers, etc.) along with school would be the best way. There is a software package called Fluenz that works well too. 幸運を祈る！

All time best way - move to Japan, get yourself a boyfriend/girlfriend who can't speak English (of course you need to like them too) and study grammar etc in the evenings. That's what I did anyway and it worked a treat.

Move to Japan.

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