The beginning

Hi guys and welcome to my blog on learning lapanese using the AJATT method.


So what is the AJATT you might ask ( probably not as your going to be getting this link from his website most likely lol), you know what, i wont explain it, go read his site he can explain it far better than i can. The main part of his method is, your not activly learning specific words, like he said its a bit like magic, you learn the language by just constantly listening to it. He said its hard to describe and i agree with him. the best explaination he could find was like growing a plant, you plant the seed, water it then watch it grow. the plant is you, the learner. the water is the japanese language. You simply grow from listening to it and after a while you just learn to understand it. Its not as if you come out of the womb, get handed a "learn english in 3 years" book and expect to learn jsut from that.

1.) You are immersed in the language from day. Your parents are speaking , the tv is on, neighbours, people outside, your toys singing, your music books, your parents cd on. Then you start saying words like dada, or mama, then things like car, bus, foot,hand.
2.) Then you start to form basic sentances or repeat what people say around you. "How are you","i'm hungry","i want sweeties", "give me all your money woman" =D.
3.) After that you start asking questions all the time to bug your parents " whats that, whats this, how does that work, why does water fall from the sky, where does that go, are we there yet?, are we there yet?, are we there yet?
4.) By that stage your already using basic language structures an thats when you go to school to learn about writing,grammer and punctuation.

So lets look at it from a AJATT view point

1.)Quite straight forward and following the AJATT approach, get japanese music, watch japanese tv, listen to japanese news, go down to your local japanese hangout with the trenchcoat and listen in on the conversations(probably not the best way) but basically, be like the baby, you wont understand it all, you will be wondering whats going onbut by doing that you will be learning. you will think " what does that news program mean? well it has a police car and a ambulance, theres probably been a accident so im thinking the rough conversation will go like this. Even if your completly wrong your still learning from your mistakes.

2.)When you watch your favourite tv show or anime there will be lines that are very memorable and those will stick in your head the easiest. If your doing your own learning outside of AJATT like flash cards you will prboably be able to say stuff, like hello, how are you, my name is, what time is it, where do i go for __ (oh crap i dont know the word for X)

3.) If you have japanes friends you be very annoying and ask them words for everything "how do you say that, what about this, what about this?" If you dont have any japanese friends this is where the dictionary comes into play, you see a word you dont know? well look it up! theres one more word for your vocabulary =)

4.) you will most liekly be doing most of the studying on your own from kanji lessons or translationg manga or anime. By this time you really need to think about getting some friends again(especially japanese ones =P )


So thats enough about this, i wasnt planning on making such a big post. next post about myself and what i am to do =)