Learning Chinese or Japanese for go

[shinuito]

I think as well, if you tell someone in order to read this book, you should go read these one or two other books, they probably won’t ever read the original book.

What I mean is you can get some Japanese go puzzle books on UK or US kindle say, and you could start reading them with just recognising a couple of symbols.

But if you have to read 1-2 genki books first, you might never come back to reading that puzzle book. Not to mention learning Hiragana and Katakana can already put off the average person as well as specific kanji.

I think there is a niche to those books as I said, they are collecting nouns say in one place (in the first couple of books) and then they open up a bit assuming you’re learning more about the language than just some nouns for a go book.

[Samraku]

@shinuito

I think there is a niche to those books as I said, they are collecting nouns say in one place

Hidetchi put out a “Shogi Dictionary” as part of his promotion of Shogi to the West

[shinuito]

@Jendker

Could you recommend any resources for learning Chinese or Japanese to be able to start (after year or two) with websites such as weiqitv? Particularly for go?

I have veered off the original topic somewhat. I think for reading websites, or maybe like a go Japanese magazine like Igo monthly you probably should just start learning the language normally.

@Jendker

I am pretty sure some of you have learnt one of the eastern languages to be able to follow the multitude of different eastern resources to improve at go.

But I was mostly using this as a place to link things where you could learn a subset of the information relevant to Go and still be able to get something out of Go materials

I haven’t successfully learned the languages so I can tell you how to learn a language in the best way and shortcut the process

[shinuito]

@shinuito

or maybe like a go Japanese magazine like Igo monthly

Just to mention the nihon kiin sells these

Amazon.co.uk

and there was a weekly one at one point

Amazon.co.uk