Japanese at the age of what?

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fermento

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• 23 Mar 2005

• #1

when did you start to learn japanese?

me i started 2 years back and i m pretty good at it...
i could negotiate with any japanese person, still need to perfect it though.

 

GaijinPunch

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25 Nov 2004

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• 24 Mar 2005

• #2

Started when I was 18... seems like a long time ago now.

 

Mike Cash

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• 24 Mar 2005

• #3

GaijinPunch said:

Started when I was 18... seems like a long time ago now.

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I started when I was 19. Strangely, it also seems like a long time ago now to me too.

 

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LemonFish

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• 26 Mar 2005

• #4

I was thinking of starting to learn it this summer/next year.
Do you people think it's hard to learn japanese at ages 17+? =P

 

nemesae

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• 26 Mar 2005

• #5

I started... when I was nineteen, I think. About one year ago from now. So it's quite doable to start learning Japanese after the age of 17 ^^

 

lv426

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27 Jan 2005

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• 26 Mar 2005

• #6

I started having lessons at school when I was 17, that was a year ago and only wish I had started the year befor or even sooner than that!

 

GaijinPunch

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• 28 Mar 2005

• #7

Definitely doable. You won't get the accent as well as if you started at age 12, but oh, well. I'd say the majority of gaijin JPN speakers started at the earliest, college.... often later.

 

rajs20

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• 28 Mar 2005

• #8

yea... I dunno about the High schools you guys went to, but mine didn't even offer Japanese

 

Sensuikan San

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• 28 Mar 2005

• #9

Have been looking at it.... thinking about it ... on and off... for many years, but "took the plunge" and started studying 'for real' just a few months ago.

I'm sixty-one (dammit!) .... do you think I have time to learn any Kanji .... at all...?

Hopefully,

ﾆ淡ﾆ停?｡ﾆ停?

 

RockLee

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22 Apr 2004

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• 28 Mar 2005

• #10

I started last year (21) If only my interest started earlier...would've saved me some years and I actually COULD SPEAK japanese when I went there

 

lv426

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• 28 Mar 2005

• #11

My college offered japanese lessons (there are alot of forigne students) but I only found out about off a person in my AS English language class, he encouraged me to do it and I probaly would not of done it otherwise.

 

-Rudel-

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• 1 Apr 2005

• #12

When I was in High School, all we had was Spanish. pff!

But there was distant learning classes that you learn over a TV and phone line, but you need a stupid @$$ 3.4 grade point average to attend. I hated my school ever since they turned me down at the school board meeting. This is when I was learning German on my own. I proved them that you dont need a 3.4 gpa just to learn a language. Maybe they got mad.

Anyways. I started learning Japanese at the age of 20.

 

crimson

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• 6 Apr 2005

• #13

I started in the spring of last year, when I was 14.

 

HeadBanger

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• 6 Apr 2005

• #14

somewhere around 16 when my dad gave me the book Everyday Japanese.