| Boutros said: Kunsha tsi uno? Es tebayoi kun la chow. |
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Anyway, I'll try my best, lol O.o
Wikipedia does a really nice job in explaining hiragan IMHO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana
It's pretty much
あ い う え お
a i u e o
Then it's variations on that with a few unique ones
か き く け こ
ka ki ku ke ko
Once you got a, i, u, e, o down, you can breeze in learning the different sounds.
Once you learn the sounds, I guess the next step will be to learn a few basic nouns and verbs, and begin learning some basic grammar. Grammar would be hard for me to teach O.o It's like the SAT grammar in English for me as it is for Japanese, it's just internalized, and in fact, you could easily make mistakes by going off how you casually speak.
Hmmm... let me try, (I could try to look up some basic lessons online, and then repeat that with my English and Japanese background helping in simplifying it).
But here's for starters
You have a noun: inu いぬ
You have a verb: aruku あるく
So then you'll start with the noun and subject (same as in English I guess)
Then you'll use が which I guess is sorta like "the"? IDK, I can look that up later. However, the thing you'll have to get is which prepositions and stuff you have to use.
(You know what, let me just get my studying done tonight, and maybe every Thursdays I can teach a "lesson", and spend a good time preparing stuff so I can explain it better)
So to finish this off, it'll be
いぬ が あるく
The dog walks
(present... I guess? Sounds really awkward to me, but I don't want to confuse you guys with tenses. Don't even understand English tenses, lol. Present, perfect, imperfect... god I hated Latin)
So I guess my homework to you guys would be to look up random nouns and verbs, and try to make your own simple noun verb sentence or something. And try to learn to write at least あいうえお. Then be able to just say the rest of the hiragana (all you have to do is add an extra letter to the beginning of a i u e o)
My sudgestion is to get a white board. In a language where you have to learn how to write enitrely new words and characters (as opposed to things like Spanish, or French, with English alphabets), it's really convenient to just use repetition and write stuff and erase. Rinse and repeat.
IDK what my parents did. I think it's this that lets me type Japanese:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx
