OddVisions

I'm going to go up to a friend of mine who speaks Tagalog once I'm fluent enough in the Spanish language, stare him straight in the eye, and say these following words translated to complete and proper conversational Spanish:

  I have come from the mountain of knowledge. I seek to know your language as well."

I would be doing this while wearing a mage or elderly man costume of course. The scary part? I'm not even joking.

I know it's a simple one, but this is my favorite joke: Why was six afraid of seven?

  Because seven ate nine!

  If any non-native speakers are having trouble with the joke's answer, it's just that 'ate' is similar to 'eight' which is the number that follows seven in sequence. In other words it would be 6 to 7 to 8 to 9.

I think, when going to any foreign country, people should learn how to request emergency help. It's also a good idea to learn conjugations that come up often in conversational language engaging. This isn't entirely a necessity but I would feel silly if I used a conjugation incorrectly while speaking to a native. That is of course unless that native is teaching me the language.

por favor- please

  This is one of the first words/phrases I learned when trying to learn Spanish. However, it's also one I'm sure everyone here knows.

la leche- milk

  I love this word. I learned it along with jugo de naranja. Jugo de naranja is the word for orange juice! These are two very important breakfast words!

I think the poster above me is right. I saw this while playing a game and saw 'ga' instead of 'wa' several times in the script of the speaking characters. I think it's because a subject or action was being emphasized rather than the whole of the sentence.

I'm not going to lie and say I know alot. Actually, most of you here are likely to be my seniors. I used to know around 30 to 40 kanji but it's been a while so I am likely to have forgotten half of those. On a bright side, I do know all my kana.

Huh, another dead thread? Let's fix that! After all, this is a good question to have asked and I want to answer it! I myself like to learn the meanings first and use a more pictorial approach for the words that I deem need it. Really, it's more of a question of which way is best for me to learn that particular kanji.

I don't think I've ever had the need for Mnemonics when it comes to Hiragana or Katakana. However, I've had to use it alot when it came to learning the more simplistic of Kanji; especially the ones that looked like Hiragana or Katakana except for an extra line stroke or two.

Huh! I can't believe that this thread hasn't been posted in for as long as it has. Well, to answer the question, I started learning hiragana through various phone applications as well as memory games. Basically, I would write the sound alphabet for hiragana in romajii then see how many 'letters' in the hiragana script I could draw under the sound alphabet.

Whoa! Thanks! This should help exponentially with learning them properly. I have them more or less memorized but some of them look truly similar to one another and then I'll forget which script I'm reading. I hope maybe something like this will help me to differentiate better between them.