if any of you are language learners, I’m asking some kind of guidance or advice for a newbie here.

  • @carbon_dated
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    13 years ago

    (My response is not Japanese related) A lot of people here are recommending Duolingo. I, personally, find it to be awful for anything past the basics (progress is so much slower than it could be). It also often rushes the beginning of different language courses, especially when dealing with unfamiliar writing systems, and the written help often ignores pronunciation or deals with it poorly, with what could be described as an aversion to the use of the IPA.

    I don’t have any recommendations and find that services dedicated to the language itself often are good enough (like lernu.net for Esperanto). Real life tutoring coupled with the reading of a book on the language, I predict will very likely be much better.