I am completely new to the Japanese language, however, I would like to start learning it. I searched this site, but I couldn't find any links as to where to begin. So my question is, where do I start learning the Japanese language? In terms of software (if i need to use it), I am on Linux so I w...
a site-blog could be used to make an "guide to getting started", or we could FAQ one up on meta...
I almost wish we could do something a bit different and just put a meta-"for fun" question out there, "How did you get to where you are, in studying Japanese?"... and then quietly point people to it
I cannot recall this very clearly so I'm sorry if this is all not correct but someone once told me that the word 友達{ともだち} has the plural marker たち "built-in" and therefore you cannot say 友達たち about friends in a situation where you could normally use ~たち.
Is that right? If it is, is there any oth...
Note that the productive plural marker is たち, never だち. — dainichi11 mins ago
Anonymous
Ooh, good comment!
Anonymous
5:38 PM
Hello! Welcome to Japanese.SE! I'm afraid that this is off-topic for our site. We try to focus on specific questions about the language itself, and not on learning method or technology questions. But please, feel free to join the Japanese.SE chat! — snailboat ♦33 secs ago
Anonymous
9:52 PM
Although no one's talking here, we've got ten people in the chat! :-)