Learning Japanese

I'm trying to learn Japanese and right now I've gotten my hands on rosetta stone Japanese level 1-3. That has stuff on reading, vocab, grammer, and listening, its pretty good. I'm also learning the hiragana and katakana.

Right now I would really like to know of any good books and/or audio materials for learning Japanese and I would also like any tips for learning.

Rosetta Stone is pretty much the be all and end all of language learning tool thingys...I'd suggest some of the books they give to young children in Japan to help them learn how to write and so on. You can probably find them on sites that sell educational books.

" Rosetta Stone is pretty much the be all and end all of language learning tool thingys...I'd suggest some of the books they give to young children in Japan to help them learn how to write and so on. You can probably find them on sites that sell educational books. "

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/learning-japanese-where-to-start-looong-post/247204/

i have no idea but my dad is using rosetta stone for learning Italian.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEABOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Learn by doing sir.

お　なまえ　わ　ですか？

I really recommend the "My Japanese Coach" software for the DS. for as short a period of time as i used it before my trip it helped immensly. 

All I could tell you is stick with Rosetta Stone. It will really help you. I learned Spanish from it and my brother is learning Mandrian (sp?) or whatever they speak. Seems impossible to learn though. XD

" @Bruce said:

" Rosetta Stone is pretty much the be all and end all of language learning tool thingys...I'd suggest some of the books they give to young children in Japan to help them learn how to write and so on. You can probably find them on sites that sell educational books. "

What he said about the books thing.  You can probably get some off Amazon. "

Strangley enough, i've recently been using the same software to learn some Japanese. I'm not very far though, as i've been busy and neglecting it a bit.

Maybe it's a problem that'll be rectified as i get further into the course, but i find it wierd that there's not some dictionary built-in. It seems it never actually tells you the meaning of the words, since you infer them yourself thorugh images, but i don't feel that it's precise enough on occasion. I only get a feel for the general meaning of the word in a few cases, and i want to actually know the specifics.

I'm trying to learn as well. First of all I don't recommend Rosetta Stone because: (1) It's a waste of money, and (2) It's not taught the way I learn which is why I do not prefer it. All RS does is show you a picture and repeat that shit the entire lesson. I would also like to reiterate that that's my opinion, I'm a visual and audio learner but Rosetta Stone does not make me feel like learning. Simply put: it's boring. Moving onto what I do recommend and plan on buying:

" @TheSovereign said:

" WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEABOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! "

People like you piss me off. Wanting to learn Japanese does not make you a weeaboo. Liking Japan does not make you a weeaboo. Dressing up in a kimono and going to Japanese class like the girl in my own class is being a weeaboo. "

Yea thats what i heard as well.

Your weeaboo officially destorys the one in my class. *bows down to you*

Hah.  Don't bother with that crap.  I came to Tokyo with almost no knowledge of the langauge.  I speak it close to fluent.

Reading is decent too. 

Don't waste money that way.  Find someone who speaks it and learn it for them.  You can read from a book so many times, but that just means you can read from a book.  It shows no path towards understanding.

Besides, it took me a year to learn "proper" Japanese.  I spent a lot of time learning from Women...so my Japanese is really girly at times.  I get made fun for it by police officers and other girls.  Some guys find it annoying as hell though.  I can't help it...it's how I learned Japanese.