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Pssh. I’ve been happening. I’ve always been happening. =P
Honestly, I couldn’t really say without knowing where you’re up to. Volume 1 (the kana version, not the romaji version) assumes you already know hiragana and katakana, though it doesn’t teach any kanji.
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If you’re friends with someone, you don’t use さん after their names. The fact that the sentence calls the kid だいちゃん probably indicates that the speaker is friends with his father.
They’ve all got slightly different emphasis.
The first puts more emphasis on the meeting-up, since it reiterates the 一緒に. The second doesn’t really have any particular emphasis. The third puts the emphasis on the fact that it’s after work when you plan to meet up with your friends.
Yeah, WaniKani is intended to replace TextFugu’s kanji section, so go for it.
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I studied Japanese for Busy People myself, along with TextFugu (and also Nakama, which we were using for my university classes). It’s not bad, though it’s geared a little towards workplace-related situations.
Well, way past the TextFugu section, anyway. EtoEto is intended to have some pretty advanced lessons.
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They say that the three hardest languages to learn in the world are English, Arabic and Japanese, and hey – you’ve already mastered English. =)
Not sure anyone knows. Not even Koichi. =P
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Study semantics, huh? One of the interesting quirks I’ve noticed about language-learning is that you tend to find the foreigners learning a language as an adult know the grammar rules much better than a native-speaker who learnt as a child. By which I mean, the native speaker has learnt the language from simply being exposed to it their entire life, so they instinctively know how the grammar works and what’s right and what’s wrong, but probably don’t specifically know all the laws and technical terms, while a foreign learner has to be explicitly told what the rules are.
TextFugu teaches katakana in season three, so you won’t be missing anything if you move on.
http://www.textfugu.com/season-3/learn-katakana/I reckon if you’re in the mood, it’s worth learning it now anyway – it’s not any harder than learning hiragana was (I mean, aside from the fact that there’s a few pairs of characters that are rather similar to each other).
Welcome! What’re you doing in Japan? Work? Military?
Slight warning, by the way, you don’t use honorifics with your own name. =)
Yeah, EtoEto has pretty much stolen all of his time. Not really any way to sugar-coat that. To make matters worse, he’s apparently just decided that everything he’s done so far is terrible, so he’s pretty much starting over from scratch.
Um… give Tae Kim a try?
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Tiny side note: it’s こんにちは =)
