I wanna learn Japanese!!!

I want to learn Japanese, but there are no such courses at my school, so I have to learn it some other way. Does anyone know of any good place where I can learn Japanese on the internet? With exercises and stuff like that.

Ah, I remember learning Japanese.

Watashiwa Mykeru-chan. I am Michael.
Korewa hon des. This is a book.
Korewa hon deska? Is this a book?

....and other such gems remain in my memory. Sadly almost all the rest is forgotten As for learning this language on the internet.....I don't know any sites, but I think it's going to be pretty challenging! I spent four years living in Japan and still couldn't speak the language well.

Then again, us Brits are well-known to be the worst linguists in Europe, so you may find it easier than I did.

I suggest you find a tutor if you're willing enough, learning the accent over the 'net would be hard.

I just want to learn some basics until I can find a "sensei" who can learn me... I've heard that it's hard for people speaking Japanese all their lives learning to speak english properly and the other way around...

Well, they are both incredibly (and sometimes unneccessarily) complex languages. It doesn't suprise me really.

N? hăo, n? hăo ma?

Go to a library, get a beginners course book with a tape, learn Japanese. My friend and I are learning Chinese this way, he a little more eagirly than me but still. If you want to learn Japanese this is not a impossible task. Oh btw, depending on how old you are you might wanna look forward to the university, Lund, Uppsala and G?teborg all have courses in Japanese.

The library is a good idea... I have to give it a try. And if I go to a university in Sweden then I'll probably go to a place where I can learn Japanese. But it would be nice to learn Japanses now and go to Japan and study instead , but it will probably be too hard to learn Japanese good enough in just a couple of years. It would be fun to go to Japan sometimes and to be able to understand anime and such stuff.

My m8 at school learnt japanese. He was russian, teachers thought he was thick as s**t- he didn't wanna learn anything. When some Japanese people came to our school he was so motivated that he taught himself Japanese in about a year, with the aid of them for the accents and such. Quite amazing if you really have the will to do something.

I can help you with some stuff, I've had 3 1/2 years of basic Japanese at school, have traveled there once before and have lots of reference information for stuff.

thx Gorbachev. I'll ask you whenever I need to... and I'll go to the library today and see if there's anything useful there.