How to Begin Your Japanese?

You may have the wish to learn to speak Japanese, may not you? So you should grasp the strategies to have access to this language first. What should do first on earth then, my friend? Learn the Japanese pronunciation. Before you start the Japanese pronunciation, you shall get to know the Japanese alphabet, which consists of Hiragana and Katakana. Each of them has 50 letters and such letters can change their pronunciation according to different situations, like a "ka" becomes a "ga", or a "sa" a "za". When you start the letters, you must have psychological preparation for such changes. If you cannot suit yourself to such changes, you will probably generate the thought of giving up at once. Indeed you should have a pronunciation book accompany you this time so that you can check and repeat what you have learned. But I still hold the view that it is very easy and quick to remember such pronunciation by reading the Japanese sentences and conversations, or even passages time after time rather than read such phonetics one by one drily. Or perhaps you will feel easy if you have Rosetta Stone Japanese around you. This software though features vocabulary acquisition, it must show the most standard pronunciation when you use it, for you can really understand one Japanese word once you have learned the pronunciation. When you have passed this threshold, you should try to accumulate Japanese words. Words cannot be really understood if you cannot figure out their different meanings and functions that could be used in various situations. Certainly for the Japanese beginner, you shouldn't exert to understand all the meanings of one word no matter how important it is. What you do is to digest their basic meanings and control their related functions and changes if used in different occasions. To comprehend the fundamental meanings, you you have many ways, like reading the vocabulary books, speaking them aloud the first time, using the featured word-image way in Rosetta Stone Japanese and embed them into a complete sentence and so on. You don't have to confine yourself to such certain ways. Actually you may find some other ways too. But the principle is that you should perform your strategies seriously not casually as you often do. Finishing this part, you are now heading for the Japanese conversation. Even though you are still making grammatical mistakes in making one complete Japanese sentence, you have to continue making it, for you should open your mouth to speak Japanese this time. Get online and open a Facebook and Google account, searching the Japanese people in them. Yes, you will have your Japanese friends immediately. Now the rest for you is to talk! Speak simple things correctly and slowly with your Japanese friends and repeat practicing such things with your friends. I think your Japanese friends will never mind you if you do want to learn their language. Certainly you also go to a training class and speak with your teacher. But I always support the idea that the things internalized by yourself are the most useful things in your life. Chatting online with the Japanese friends is the way to internalize Japanese. Really the best option is to go to Japan and speak Japanese everyday with Japanese around you. But not all the learners can enjoy such treatment and you have to consider this too. Finally I should alert you: Don't waste your entire energy and time to find the best way! The best way is your action! Even if you have the most excellent way, you have no action to practice your ways, your ways are nothing!