cool
i was gonna do something like this.
guess you beat me to it.
oh well.
yeah make some more it was pretty good.
though i'd suggest start teaching some of the japanese characters probably starting with the katakana alphabet.
good luck.
Reviews for "JapanEaseLesson1"
Very informative
Thank you. Even for a basic tutorial I learned very much from this. I'm a big anime watcher and I finaly understood a few of the words that I didnt before.
I think both myself and others would greatly benefiet from you making more levels of this tutorial to learn progressevly More japanese. That would be fantastic!
Thanks~
~PROXER~
Good, for a starter.
I absolutely enjoyed it. It had a great balance of animation, sound, and a great deal information. Although I know very little Japanese, I do know (to quote the user Vorpal) that if you're gonna add -san or -kun, it better be to an authority figure, adult, basicly to anyone who needs the utmost respect. Keep up the work, and make a sequel if you can. Maybe form a language series of French, Spanish, Japanese, English (for the illiterate people on the BBS, jk), etc.
Cayler responds:
Hey, you noticed the mistake too. I wish I wouldn't have put it in there but it's too late to change it now. Read the response to the comment below this one for my explanation.
Good introduction for beginners
The one problem I heard was in the introduction. I was taught NEVER to introduce yourself as "name"+san or kun or chan or whatever. Those are only to be used for other people. I could be mistaken, since I'm not a native speaker, but that was grilled into me during the first semester of the several years I took Japanese.
Cayler responds:
Yes, you're right. That was a big mistake on my part. At first I was just thinking that I needed a way to help people get used to the idea of titles like kun or chan but when I was writing the script, I kinda got ahead of myself and put that in there. Then when I recorded it, I thought, "hey that shouldn't be there...well, nobody will really notice anyway." But now I'm not so sure it was right to just ignore it. I'll bet some people who speak Japanese really well start watching it and think, "What a moron! And he's in charge of teaching all these people who are going to be watching this piece of crap!?" lol I'll just make sure not to make that kind of mistake again. Though, I really kinda do feel like I shouldn't be teaching people because I'm only self taught. I've never taken any Japanese classes or even known any Japanese people. So I hope I can make the next installments without teaching people the wrong stuff! lol Thanx for the review.
good
i've been learning Japanese for quite a while now, and I haven't practiced for a few months, so I kinda forgot a lot. This helped me pick up the basics ^^
One mistake, though: you treat 'desu' as a verb. It may look like a verb, and even share some verbal forms, but in Japanese, desu is not a verb. It's more like a particle to either make a sentence polite or -as has been said- to express 'to be'. It has more uses, but i kinda forgot those, too ^^"
For the rest, great to learn the basics, or practice them. Make lesson 2 ^^
Cayler responds:
Thanx for the review and I will try to make lesson 2 as soon as possible. As for the desu not actually being a verb, thanx for telling me that because I'm self taught so some of my info easily can be wrong. I think I will end up learning more Japanese from reviews than the people will who use the lesson. lol