Guest godlvian Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Does anyone here do Japanese at Ab nitio standard.I'm finding it hard to learn the alphabets and the similar characters which all look like gibberish to me.Any tips?. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Instinct.sD Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 It is all memorization. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmonicgirl Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 I have never heard of it. In my school you can only learn French or German... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtm2292 Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 well, i don't take ib japanese (i take french) but I do know the writing systems and a little bit of the process of learning japanese. Japanese does not have a pure alphabet, it has a syllabary that consists of consonants and vowels. There are four ways of writing japanese, hiragana (grammar words), katakana (emphatic and foreign words), kanji (vocabulary), and romaji (japanese romanized in the english alphabet). Here is a great place to learn them:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese:Kana_LessonsKanji lists are here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoiku_kanji Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest godlvian Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 i dun know the name of the school frm where my math teacher was...but his name is manuel lena...if u know him ????well, i don't take ib japanese (i take french) but I do know the writing systems and a little bit of the process of learning japanese. Japanese does not have a pure alphabet, it has a syllabary that consists of consonants and vowels. There are four ways of writing japanese, hiragana (grammar words), katakana (emphatic and foreign words), kanji (vocabulary), and romaji (japanese romanized in the english alphabet). Here is a great place to learn them:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese:Kana_LessonsKanji lists are here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoiku_kanjithanks a lot does anyone know a method of differentiating from the almost similar characters? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TomAto Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 at my school we only have french and spanish.but i can help!! i can speak japanese! btw, does this website take japanese characters? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kl_90 Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 My Japanese teacher makes us work very hard. Lots of small quizzes and homework. Helps a lot in remembering the characters. And she only speaks japanese to us. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forester Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 DO you know if Japanese ab initio is offered in my IB2 year, can I pick it up and do anticipated? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deissi Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I believe ab initio languages can only be done as normal subjects. Besides you can only have seven subjects, so you couldn't pick it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TehAntiChrist Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Heya I more or less learnt all the hiragana/katakana by taking one alphabet chart at a time, starting with hiragana, then just spamming it on every squared paper I could find.. Like, advancing with one row every two or three days, I think.. (i.e. adding a consonant) Eventually you have hiragana charts all over your physics book O.o The kanji is quite much more difficult though, I've been making these cards by buying a pack of empty business cards (you know, the really thick ones that last for a while) and then writing out the kana on one side and the explanation on the other. It's really, really, timeconsuming but the results are worth it :') Sitting with these on the bus or whatever gives a whole lot of practice, actually.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donbert Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'm not taking Japanese as a course, but I'm learning it on my own. I can strongly recommend Remembering the Kana and Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig. Also, I can't stress enough that you must not ignore or place less priority on learning the kanji. You must be proficient in 2000-some kanji in order to be literate in Japanese. I'm sure that the ab initio exam requires that you know significantly fewer than two thousand, but it really doesn't hurt to know them all Plus, with Heisig's book, learning them is a breeze. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donbert Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Do u by any chance know really good French books for French B SL/HL? Can't say that I do. I don't take French, and the only IB French teacher at my school is notorious for his low pass rate I suppose you could check the IBO store. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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