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That sounds like a pretty terrible tutor. Kana does NOT take two months to learn.
And yeah, you should be able to hold a conversation after finishing TextFugu, though you’ll need to practice your speaking and listening on your own.
It makes sense to learn the desu/masu form first because (a) it’s simpler, since everything conjugates the same way, and (b) it’s everything a casual tourist could reasonably be expected to need. Honestly, there’s perfectly valid arguments either way.
On my trip (only two weeks) I went Tokyo -> Osaka -> Hiroshima/Miyajima -> Kyoto -> Tokyo, with side trips to Mount Fuji, Matsumoto, Koya-san, Nara, and Himeji. And yeah, I absolutely loved Miyajima too. I’ve got a huge list of places I want to visit if I ever get another opportunity…
Welcome! Sadly, actual natural usage is one thing that textbooks often don’t teach. =P
What were you doing in Japan for three months? Where’d you go besides Okinawa? =)
Visiting procedures for foreigners: http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/kp/koto/gosyo/gosyo_e.html
I’ve actually never been to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, though I have been to Nijo Castle (which, for some reason, I keep confusing with the Imperial Palace). I’ve visited the Tokyo Imperial Palace East Gardens, which are attached to the palace, but you can only enter the palace proper on special occasions.
I’ve got a huge list of other things I want to visit in Japan – currently it runs to pretty much exactly six A4 pages in MS Word. Some things places worth visiting in the Seto Inland Sea area include Koya-san, Nara, Onomichi, Takehara, Miyajima, Himeji Castle, large amounts of Kyoto… the list goes on. =)
I’m just starting the very earliest planning stages of a group trip with my sci-fi and fantasy club from university – it’s tentatively slated for February 2018, and the only things that are definitely on the itinerary are Universal Studios and Tokyo Disneyland. I’m trying to press for a stay in an onsen town ryokan on at least one night. =)
You can’t actually enter the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, so that narrows down your options a little bit. It’s still in use, after all. =P
Welcome back! Haven’t seen you in a while. =)
Where are you planning to visit in particular?
No, it’s not really, but it’s all the time my friend could spare off work. I guess I could have stayed there longer on my own, but I wasn’t entirely sure I could manage. Two weeks in six years is certainly not enough…
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Vocab comes in handy when it comes to learning kanji. Grammar comes in handy too. =)
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Just fifteen days. Two weeks and an extra weekend.
A slight warning: summer in Japan is hot and humid – June is the rainy season, while August is the hottest month. If you want to climb Fuji, though, you pretty much have to go in summer. If you do find yourself there in August, the Basara Matsuri in Nara is well worth attending.
Possibly a holdover from an older version of how the kanji were sorted. He used to sort the radicals strictly by the number of strokes, but that’s been changed. Guess he didn’t manage to update all of the pages that refer to the radicals at the same time.
To pick a few out randomly out of my list:
- If you’re pretty active, it might be worth climbing Mount Fuji – if you don’t think you’d be up to that, Mount Takao is a good alternative. For that matter, you could do both.
- Yanaka and Nezu (including Nezu shrine)
- Yamadera (in Yamagata prefecture)
- Tenninkyo Onsen in Hokkaido
- Kyoto – pretty much all of Kyoto. Nara, too
- Koya-san (in Wakayama Prefecture)
- Onomichi (and/or Takehara)
- Himeji Castle
- Matsumoto Castle
- Miyajima (Hiroshima)
- Yanagawa
- Yakushima (island near Kagoshima)And so on and so forth. That’s not even a fraction of my list, though in all fairness, a lot of things were added simply because they look pretty – actually getting to them may not be particularly feasible. If you want to check out the photos from my last trip waaay back in August-September 2010, you can find them here – you’ll need to be logged into Facebook to see them (though we don’t need to be Facebook friends).
Oh, I’ve got an enormous list of places I want to go if I ever get the chance to visit Japan again. =)
For places to stay, Toyoko Inn is a chain of business hotels that have branches everywhere – they’re clean and pretty cheap – but I strongly urge you to splurge at least one night on a ryokan somewhere.
Whew, nine hours. We only had five (though of course, we were expected to do another five hours of study at home).
Welcome! Kinda envious that you get to visit Japan – got any places you’re planning to visit in particular?
Ten kanji a day seems a little bit ambitious. You sure you can actually learn that many at once?
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