Its tempting to stick to romaji, and many beginner textbooks are littered with it, but ultimately it will only slow you down. The main use of romaji, and the reason why Japanese people learn the roman alphabet, is computing. And love it or hate it, its still probably the best beginners Japanese textbook out. You won’t be able to read Japanese texts unless someone kindly turns it to romaji for you. If you took Japanese in University, this is probably the textbook you used. Japanese people don’t use romaji in everyday life. Romaji doesn’t help you read Japanese texts. On the other hand, The Complete Guide to Japanese.
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Romaji-only-courses would be disastrous when learning how to pronounce Japanese syllables in the proper way.ģ. Guide to Japanese Grammar is the one I used myself, mainly because its available in app form on mobile. You won’t learn proper Japanese pronunciation with romaji.īe aware that if you don’t get much speaking practice you could develop bad habits, especially for English speakers reading romaji the same way they would read English, with English rhythm and intonation.
The same goes for Tokyo 東京 (とうきょう), meaning “Tokyo, the capital of Japan”, that has different hiragana to romaji spelling like Tokyo, Tōkyō, Toukyou…Ģ. For example, the romaji of 縮む, meaning “to shrink”, is chijimu, which, if put back into hiragana, can be written as ちぢむ or ちじむ. Romaji can cause the formation of bad habits or misunderstandings. The danger comes from using it for too long and it will just make your learning harder.ġ. Starting to learn Japanese with romaji will definitely help you.
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