Real Japanese

[daBigNY]

even though pimsleur has been extremely helpful, i still fear that i am learning proper japanese and not real native japanese. does anyone here have any suggestions as to how to remedy this?

 

[TwistedMac]

learn proper first, then go to japan for a year and you'll be fixed right up ^^

 

[daBigNY]

thanks but i don't see myself going to live in japan for a year. i will visit sometime in the future but that's all for now. i am learning japanese because it was and is a challenge.

now since i don't plan on doing that, do you have any other advice?

 

[TwistedMac]

kidnap lots of japanese people and keep them in your apartment.. their screams of terror might contain some real japanese.. other than that, no.

I don't believe getting one japanese friend and talking to him / her will help all that much, so i don't really have any ideas =/

 

[David Hallgren]

You've got some great advice there Mac. Patent it and write a book. "Learning languages by kidnapping", could make you rich...

 

[daBigNY]

lol...thanks people.

actually what i did was join a group that meets once every month to practice japanese and i am going to start buying and renting japanese movies, music and etc just to get around the language more. i just hope that this group has some people in it much more advanced than i am otherwise it will be a huge waste of time.

 

[Glenn]

I would say definitely watch Japanese movies and TV shows, anime, etc. Especially some of the newer stuff. I once heard that Japanese is changing so rapidly that if a Japanese person were to leave Japan and go back a year later, they wouldn't be able to understand some of the language. I'm not sure how much that is still happening, though.