Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else wants to learn about best way to learn japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my colleague got cool results with it.
As someone that passed N1 10 years ago, I agree with your approach of varying up reading materials and levels. I still switch between manga, novels, social media. I think it's good to sometimes read for total understanding, looking up in a dictionary, others just read through without worrying and getting the gist.
The analogy of weight training being similar to reading is almost as adorable as you are. I'm both training to run more and to improve my reading on French classics. For my easy reads, I play video games with a lot of dialogue like ACNL or Pokémon in French. Keep up with this reading topic. Bisous!
Thanks Emil! :D I'd try and say something in French but I only know that Christina Aguilera song and I'm pretty sure it's not something good to say haha
I love hearing you talk about reading techniques; I honestly don't see other people talking about using different levels of materials to stimulate different reading skillsets. Thank you so much for sharing this!
hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover how to speak japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my friend got cool results with it.
Just stumbled upon this video! Definitely going to try and vary my reading as I tend to fry my brain when immediately jumping to something difficult. Thanks for the video :D
To do list for reading Japanese: 1. Learn Hiragana and Katakana. 2. Memorize the first 2000 words on the Anki Japanese vocab list. ( These will be the 2000 most frequently used words in Japanese. That's about 90% of spoken Japanese. 🙂) 3. Learn the first 400 Kanji in James Hessig's book. ( This will be all of the radicals, fragments, and the most frequently used Kanji. ) Starting with a solid base in this material will make reading much easier. The Manga will have furigana to help you with the readings. Six words a day will get you to 2000 words in a year. You should go much faster than that. One Kanji a day will get you 365 in a year. You should go much faster than that too. It won't happen over night. It will happen if you keep at it.
Spectrum ah same dude My goal is to finish hiragana and katakana by the end of high school and learn some grammar building doing this by watching anime in Japanese (to know some words I can later on use) studying online, reading folk tales, and memorizing a few kanjis here and there. My high school does offer Japanese but for native speakers only (sucks). Good luck on your Japanese journey mate
Gavin Olivas only competed once in Legacy, didn’t go far against $5,000 decks haha EDH is fun but I like themed decks too much to be competitive. And I’ve never played cube!! Hopefully someday!
It gets easier over time. In the beginning it took me 2+ hours to read one chapter in Harry Potter. Even with inconsistent practice I now read fast enough for books to be enjoyable and for me to notice improvements within each new book. I'm still slow compared to a native Japanese speaker (maybe 1/3 the speed) but still, you will get it eventually.
@@yo6285 you could try to read a novel with many sections. When my husband started reading novels, he chose one which had a new section every 2 or 3 pages or so. That way, he was able to set a goal of reading one section a day, so he was able to stay consistent with it. Good luck!
Chad Zimmerman Oh btw, seeing an in depth video on reading would be dope. I look forward to it if you do go ahead and make one. And thanks for the video!
I would agree. It is probably better to learn the conversational form of the language, rather than the textbook language. That can come later. It's how we learn languages anyway and it is much more practical on top.
Reading is something I don't even like in any language so it's a bit hard to read longer then an easy news story a day ;^o^, thanks for the teaching Big Chad
It's something I NEVER like doing, even in English until I started learning the higher level grammar in books and seeing it in novels. Then it just sorta... clicked? lol
Hi! I totally agree with you when you said that your'd increase your reading skills by reading. Once I thought about buying a manga written in japanese but I didn't do it because I thought it would be too hard for me. After watching your video, I'm buying it! What is second book's name (the blue one)? Could you recommend other books that are at the intermediate level?
Yeah I remember that hump haha I didn't get past it until I was teaching kids English in Japan and learned how they talk to their friends XD You can learn it just by watching lots of kids shows in Japanese too (from what some of my friends told me), but it was annoying when you see something marketed to kids and you're like "...wow sweet I know like 3 actual sentences on this page"
I've already read a novel in japanese. I'm currently reading Lupin the III on my kindle which is something I recommend as it makes it so much easier and it's faster to look up words.
So basically your saying That the really hard book is to improve your reading speed (And probably speech too) The your level book is a slight challenge that gets you used to learning new words And the easy book is to just practice what you already know/motivational support?
Table News more or less! Each person finds a reason for the level they’re reading, I’m just trying to argue for not always staying at a level that comforts you or to over extend yourself. Diversity in your reading is massively helpful!
Great Video! I would love to see a more in depth video of your process. Do you read each book(easy, at your level, and hard) everyday for 20 minutes? I am trying to get better at reading myself and I was planning on reading books at my level for about 20 minutes every day to get used to reading the after I get comfortable I will more on to harder books
I do read all three every day! On top of reading and writing my Japanese friends on social media. I do each for around 20, so a total of around an hour. :D Do whatever works for you my dude! There's no wrong way to learn except for not trying!
A popular number thrown about in language learning pedagogy discussions is 70%. That's the minimum amount, it is said, that you should be able to understand if you want to benefit pedagogically from passively consumed media (aural and/or visual). Once you dip below that number, you can still learn things (of course), but your learning efficiency suffers drastically. I wouldn't mind hearing you relate some of the comments you made in this video to that particular piece of conventional wisdom. Surely the mechanical benefits of good reading habits (which you tout as being the primary goal of reading hard text, as opposed to language learning per se) could be gained from a text in which you understand 70% just as much as from a text in which you understand 50%. Right?
I've heard that number, and it's conventional wisdom comes from comprehension of the text, no on the speed of reading. If you read a text that's 70% comprehensible but you know a small number of kanji you're being exposed to sentences with much lower rates of kanji than a text you understand 50% or less. Reading a sentence of mostly kana isn't preparing your brain to read normal Japanese with the regular frequency of kanji, seeing the shape of the sentences and regular patterns you'd encounter. This is often the problem with people moving from textbook Japanese to like, a newspaper for instance. They aren't used to the real forms and the sheer walls of kanji as compared to their tailored experience. It's like saying can you practice swimming in the ocean with tides and waves by using one of those small backyard kiddie pools: you definitely can, but you'd get better much faster by swimming in the actual ocean even though it's much harder.
I'm pretty proficient in listening but reading... I feel like I stopped at n3 XD The exams are a nightmare, not attempting n1, because my speed is soooo slowwww... But it's time to start tryiiiingg!
What do you think about JapanesePod101? I started using it and I think it's an incredible learning tool! But I'd like to know your opinion about it. :-)
Márcio Rodrigo dude funny story, that’s the site that started me on Japanese!!! I actually recommend it as a starter place for people who want to learn but aren’t sure if they want to commit to super serious studies, like get the free week trial and download all the beginner seasons and just run them with the pdf’s! I think for a start it’s a heck of a resource!
Chad Zimmerman そうですね。My study method is to add the sentences I still don't know in a SDS and listen to the audios several times. Do you think it's not a good resource for intermediate students? I look at this tool as a great one to learn new vocabulary and structures. Isn't it?
I would never use it for anything beyond beginner. Tbh if you're serious it's not really even the best for beginner it's just the best for the price (of free). The best textbook for beginner that I've found is Genki. Intermediate is tough since it's such a wide topic, you'll need several books to get through it and kinda know what you're doing imo
@@ThatsMyChad truer words... I've been stuck in Intermediate hell for decades. I actually think this is the sweet spot of Japanese language learning, or language learning in general - there's just nothing comprehensive out there to grab onto once you hit "defeated Duolingo" status, that isn't a giant confusing muddle.
I started with the manga こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 , colloquially called kochikame for short. Has Furigana, fun stories but demanding language at times too. I'm N1 level Japanese now, but still like kochi kame.
I'm planning to get a Non-fiction Japanese book about my culture and a Hopi book I saw on the reservation....and maybe I could get a picture book around 3rd or 4th grade level.
Hey Chad as always a very good Video ! I wanna ask you if you have any experience with a book called Tobira . It's a Japanese-English Textbook for Intermediate-Advanced readers. thx for your time
I actually got ahold of an online PDF from a fan to review, but I don't think I can do it justice without the full online resources :/ So I'm saving to buy it to review for you guys!
@@yogakudaigaku If I am honest, I've never found a truly helpful system. They are just one more line of work I have to add to my already busy day with the randomized chance as the only reason to do them. I might just be another intermediate failure and it's honestly suicide-inducing.
@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet I guess it's best to avoid anything that is getting you down that much! I think language, a new language, your native language, whatever is meant to be about connection between people. So if it's not helping that, it's probably not helping anything.
hey man I never comment but I've been watching your vids for a while, I know the meanings to around 800 kanji but can read next to nothing, would you purely recommend Heisig's remembering the kanji vol 2 to learn readings? feels like I'm at a stand still with kanji!
I actually never used his volume 2. I stopped after 1,500 from meanings, and just by learning vocabulary I was able to connect the dots. So if from learning Japanese you know ねこ is cat, and from Heisig you know 猫 is cat, you can connect that dot without the help of the book. But it requires you read A LOT. And study Japanese pretty hard because you're essentially trying to learn it organically. If you want a more, spoon fed version? Then you can try and find a reading's list like the 日本語総まとめ series for the JLPT. I used that just to solidify my N2 Kanji reading's. But for the most part I've made most of my progress just by connecting dots on my own.
Which ones? I didn't give names cause they were just to give you some level examples and the actual book I was holding was less important. And I buy them in Japan :) If you want the manga and light novels though check out my manga club on my patreon! Have a good day!
Chad, I've nearly memorised my Kana and just started getting into Kanji. I want a reading material for the complete beginner, could you link one or three of them please? Currently I'm using an app on android called Kanji Tree and I'm doing it's Grade 1 recognize section. It's basically flash cards, but I want to open a book and try to read...all the books I find though feel too complex. Can you help me find something that I can just get started on?
I will say this, These often are about as easy as you'll get in the real world unless you have something tailored to your level, like a textbook or something. So if this is still too complex, it just might be too early for native materials with the method you're trying. Id suggest finding a tailored reading method where everything builds and stacks like a genki textbook or some other means of organizing the levels chapter by chapter!
@@ThatsMyChad I tried that method of going with "easy children's books" and *hated* reading. I couldn't understand anything, and it was difficult to separate the words. Sure it was easy to *sound out* but actually understanding was damn near impossible, and the actual interest was.... not at all. Children's books are boring. Instead I find stuff with kanji much better. Doing RTK gives rough/vague meanings of kanji, and often times they can combine to make a clear meaning. Such as 子猫 you have 子 meaning child, and 猫 meaning cat. So then you get child cat, or kitten. If you've got furigana you just learned that こねこ or more properly 子猫 means kitten. Whereas in "easy" books you'd see it as これはこねこです。 and not only is it difficult to distinguish that the word there is こねこ you now must also rely on a dictionary to figure out what the word means. これは子猫です。Is *much* easier for me to read than これはこねこです。And once I start learning enough kanji like this, words start being friendly and much easier to read. When I see one I know it's *instantly* recognizable, rather than struggling to figure out where the word boundaries are and then trying to remember the sound and connect it to a meaning. Just my experience. Also: reading kids books isn't my end goal, and are boring af. Since they don't actually help read the stuff I wanna read, why bother with them if it's so much easier to just read the stuff I actually do want to read? If the point is to get kana reading practice, then by all means it's a good way to do it. Though just reading kana everywhere, and perhaps better: old japanese video games like Legend of Zelda, are a lot more fun and can help with kana practice.
I recommend just learning words in Kanji from the start rather than learning the words without kanji and trying to memorise kanji as individual things separately.
Hey Chad. Love your videos!! Do you have tips on how to find books when you don't travel to Japan? Seems like every time I try to find a book on Amazon it is in English. I ordered the first よつば book per your other video, but what about advancing from that book. I want to try learning more by reading and immersion, but need to find books in Japanese... not English! Thoughts or recommendations?
Sadly I don't have an easy answer for physical books :/ but for online or ebooks here's two sites I use! One is lower level, one is more intermediate and advanced! life.ou.edu/stories/ www.aozora.gr.jp/
Damn, I got exposed for wanting to swoon the ladies with my 日本語 skills. But anyways, I know I'm 2 years late to the party, but I've been studying Japanese for a year now and I'd really like to get into reading, but I've got trouble finding fitting books. I'd like to (as you say) be able to read a book with a maximum of 10 words to look up per page. So, any reading recommendations from you or the comments would be appreciated. Or textbooks with stories to read? What about games? For example playing some of the original Final Fantasies, or any other RPG's / text-heavy games in Japanese, would that be worth it? Or too hard / too much vocabulary that you'll barely use?
I've been on and off learning for awhile and if I ever want something light to read, I pick up my volume of Yotsuba To! I've barely gotten my hands into grammar and kanji but its enjoyable to skim through.
>first just get a book you can read wow thanks if I could do that I wouldn't be watching this video. Kinda poor advice here. I was hoping for practical tips on how to go from "damn I understand almost none of this" to the point where you're describing "understanding almost all except maybe 5-10 words". The "harder" books are actually easier for me, since kanji can convey meaning sometimes, but the hiragana version of words just leave it as a mess of sounds and unknown words.
What different websites or apps that you used to learn a foreign language? For reading time of the day. I would like to read more often in Japanese. Is there anything that you recommend doing that? When you're able to.
I think www.japanese.io/home is pretty good, has wide array of readings with built in furigana etc. I've also started a channel related to Japanese translations and reading if you want to look.
Anyone here can tell me how hard is it to read the SAO light novels in Japanese? I was wondering how far my abilities should be when starting to read stuff like that
Hey man, I always wonder where people get their japanese mangas and books from. I only found like 2 mangas that are actually in japanese on amazon and the delivery takes 2 months pepehands
What country are you in? If it's America I run a Manga Club where I send people 4 books a month. It got a little shaken up since the borders closed, but it's a good entry point. You can also do an amazon prime account from Japan but you need to pay the extra international shipping. Ebay sometimes has deals, and I've ever found them at those cool indie book stores that also sell records. But finding a specific book or volume can be difficult for a reasonable price.
@@ThatsMyChad Im in germany, and Ive tried using the japanese amazon, but it didnt work and Ive heard that you can use any Region for Amazon EXCEPT Japan and korea or so sadge
Anyone know if Konosuba LN is worth it for reading practice? (in term of vocab is it too fantasy-ish) i'm planning to buy it after finishing RRTK and Tanggo N5
if your vocab and grammar knowledge is only n5 level then konosuba will be way too hard for you. do the core 2.3 anki deck, with sentences and audio (google it and download it) and then try the konosuba LN.
@@babygorl9541 yah, i'm still in the process of learning N5 Deck and grammar after finishing RRTK 1. Then i just realize my reading skill is way too low, I'm probably gonna wait until the next 6 months and maybe starting it from reading VN cuz they have voice acting too.
Then don't worry about understanding, just try and get as quick at reading the kanji and kana as you can! It will help you later on in your studies ^_^
It's called 海と毒薬, it's by 遠藤周作 who is just a delight to read. I don't know if you heard about that Silence movie that came out recently but that's also one of his stories! And I can recommend a really good series: Yotsubato is great for beginners. It's nice since it doesn't feel like it's trying to pander to beginners like children's books do. I, to this day, have the complete set :)
I want the complete one piece collection, every time I'm in Japan they have like 80 volumes for $100 and it's sooooo tempting. But they're too easy and sadly that's money I can spend on boring old novels :/ Oh well, the pains of being upper intermediate
特攻隊 agreed! But if I’m gonna progress with my studies on a budget I need to budget accordingly :/ hopefully soon I’ll reach a really good pace and I can just buy whatever I want and not think about growing in the language xD
"You google children's books, and they only take you 10 minutes to read" the correct answer is 2 hours*
Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else wants to learn about best way to learn japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my colleague got cool results with it.
@@marioperez6466couldn’t find what your talking about
As someone that passed N1 10 years ago, I agree with your approach of varying up reading materials and levels. I still switch between manga, novels, social media. I think it's good to sometimes read for total understanding, looking up in a dictionary, others just read through without worrying and getting the gist.
Congrats on that achievement friend! :D
The analogy of weight training being similar to reading is almost as adorable as you are. I'm both training to run more and to improve my reading on French classics. For my easy reads, I play video games with a lot of dialogue like ACNL or Pokémon in French. Keep up with this reading topic. Bisous!
Thanks Emil! :D I'd try and say something in French but I only know that Christina Aguilera song and I'm pretty sure it's not something good to say haha
I love hearing you talk about reading techniques; I honestly don't see other people talking about using different levels of materials to stimulate different reading skillsets. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I’m just here for my people! :D let’s all head to fluent together!
ありがとう! You're literally one of my fav Japanese-related youtubers😂 I'm taking Japanese classes since about a month ago hehe
Thank you so much! :D Keep learning and growing my dude! If you need any help don't hesitate to ask!
So how are your classes after about 9 months
* ありがとう
You forgot the u it's ありがとう
ハンス
it's been over 2 years, how is it going? Hopefully you've learnt Japanese! I'm just starting. :)
you got it wrong chad. we learn japanese to meet japanese women and obviously they can read japanese!
Oh no! I've miscalculated!
hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover how to speak japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my friend got cool results with it.
*japanese men
Not going to lie, if you want to meet Japanese women, learning to become fluent in Japanese is one of the worse things you can do.
hahaha! so funny :)
Just stumbled upon this video! Definitely going to try and vary my reading as I tend to fry my brain when immediately jumping to something difficult. Thanks for the video :D
Figure of speech and idioms in japanese is a must learn if you want to experience everything. Manga especially
I r moar smurtr nao.
Seriously though, I enjoy the topic. Definitely do videos on reading if you can find the time.
How you feeling dude???
To do list for reading Japanese:
1. Learn Hiragana and Katakana.
2. Memorize the first 2000 words on the Anki Japanese vocab list.
( These will be the 2000 most frequently used words in Japanese. That's about 90% of spoken Japanese. 🙂)
3. Learn the first 400 Kanji in James Hessig's book. ( This will be all of the radicals, fragments, and the most frequently used Kanji. )
Starting with a solid base in this material will make reading much easier. The Manga will have furigana to help you with the readings.
Six words a day will get you to 2000 words in a year. You should go much faster than that.
One Kanji a day will get you 365 in a year. You should go much faster than that too.
It won't happen over night. It will happen if you keep at it.
Ive seen this a few times but that sweater is nice
Thank you Tyree! :D It's a rad one for sure
I'm trying to learn ”some” Japanese before I graduate high school so like this might be helpful
Spectrum ah same dude My goal is to finish hiragana and katakana by the end of high school and learn some grammar building doing this by watching anime in Japanese (to know some words I can later on use) studying online, reading folk tales, and memorizing a few kanjis here and there. My high school does offer Japanese but for native speakers only (sucks). Good luck on your Japanese journey mate
his laptop looks like it's seen some things 😂
No. I will ALWAYS be good at Magic the Gathering.
Gavin Olivas I wish I still was. Haha I can still play well but because I didn’t keep up on the type 2 meta, I’d suck terribly at any tournament :/
It's all about legacy, EDH, and cube ;)
BTW playing mtg in Japan is interesting
Gavin Olivas only competed once in Legacy, didn’t go far against $5,000 decks haha EDH is fun but I like themed decks too much to be competitive. And I’ve never played cube!! Hopefully someday!
Are you still good at MTG?
Reading Japanese book is extremely difficult and hard
It gets easier over time. In the beginning it took me 2+ hours to read one chapter in Harry Potter. Even with inconsistent practice I now read fast enough for books to be enjoyable and for me to notice improvements within each new book. I'm still slow compared to a native Japanese speaker (maybe 1/3 the speed) but still, you will get it eventually.
@@jessesjapanese8484 praying I get there!!!! Manga is easy, but novels are hard
@@yo6285 you could try to read a novel with many sections. When my husband started reading novels, he chose one which had a new section every 2 or 3 pages or so. That way, he was able to set a goal of reading one section a day, so he was able to stay consistent with it. Good luck!
Notification Bell squad. This came in clutch because I commented a few days ago with a question of reason. Thanks alot
Actually did this for you my dude ^_^ You and a handful of commenters this week! I do try and make what ya'll ask :P
Oh also... NOTE SQUAD ASSEMBLE
Chad Zimmerman Oh btw, seeing an in depth video on reading would be dope. I look forward to it if you do go ahead and make one. And thanks for the video!
Heard loud and clear!
I would agree. It is probably better to learn the conversational form of the language, rather than the textbook language. That can come later. It's how we learn languages anyway and it is much more practical on top.
Reading is something I don't even like in any language so it's a bit hard to read longer then an easy news story a day ;^o^, thanks for the teaching Big Chad
It's something I NEVER like doing, even in English until I started learning the higher level grammar in books and seeing it in novels. Then it just sorta... clicked? lol
you're the man. so inspiring.
No, Vincent. WE'RE the man
Stumbled upon your channel and I'm glad I did! You're really well spoken and easy to listen to with interesting content. Consider me subbed 👍
This is one of the smartest Chad's I've ever seen
haha! I try, I try :P
You can do it!
Looking forward to you replaying the challenge.
Hi! I totally agree with you when you said that your'd increase your reading skills by reading. Once I thought about buying a manga written in japanese but I didn't do it because I thought it would be too hard for me. After watching your video, I'm buying it! What is second book's name (the blue one)? Could you recommend other books that are at the intermediate level?
That's awesome to hear! :D
It's called 怪談レストラン！It's a horror anthology and each book is based on a new creature from mythology!
1:13 that's what I look like when I take of my shirt in front of my naturo manga collection
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Chad Zimmerman reading Japanese book 📚 is extremely difficult and hard 😡😡😡
NICEU NICEU VERY NICEU ZIMMERMAN
your mean :
I'm the level of reading kids books and still not getting it because it's it's childish slang and confusing.
Yeah I remember that hump haha I didn't get past it until I was teaching kids English in Japan and learned how they talk to their friends XD You can learn it just by watching lots of kids shows in Japanese too (from what some of my friends told me), but it was annoying when you see something marketed to kids and you're like "...wow sweet I know like 3 actual sentences on this page"
Do you have recommendations by level? This is actually a really good video and I'm going to try this approach.
I've already read a novel in japanese. I'm currently reading Lupin the III on my kindle which is something I recommend as it makes it so much easier and it's faster to look up words.
So basically your saying That the really hard book is to improve your reading speed (And probably speech too)
The your level book is a slight challenge that gets you used to learning new words
And the easy book is to just practice what you already know/motivational support?
Table News more or less! Each person finds a reason for the level they’re reading, I’m just trying to argue for not always staying at a level that comforts you or to over extend yourself. Diversity in your reading is massively helpful!
Chad Zimmerman well then lit I’ll do that then🙏 thanks
Table News happy to help ^_^
Your name is unreal. Amazing really
I've been reading GJ部 and Kingdom hearts novels in Japanese.
Great video 📹 👍
Great Video! I would love to see a more in depth video of your process. Do you read each book(easy, at your level, and hard) everyday for 20 minutes? I am trying to get better at reading myself and I was planning on reading books at my level for about 20 minutes every day to get used to reading the after I get comfortable I will more on to harder books
I do read all three every day! On top of reading and writing my Japanese friends on social media. I do each for around 20, so a total of around an hour. :D Do whatever works for you my dude! There's no wrong way to learn except for not trying!
A popular number thrown about in language learning pedagogy discussions is 70%. That's the minimum amount, it is said, that you should be able to understand if you want to benefit pedagogically from passively consumed media (aural and/or visual). Once you dip below that number, you can still learn things (of course), but your learning efficiency suffers drastically. I wouldn't mind hearing you relate some of the comments you made in this video to that particular piece of conventional wisdom. Surely the mechanical benefits of good reading habits (which you tout as being the primary goal of reading hard text, as opposed to language learning per se) could be gained from a text in which you understand 70% just as much as from a text in which you understand 50%. Right?
I've heard that number, and it's conventional wisdom comes from comprehension of the text, no on the speed of reading. If you read a text that's 70% comprehensible but you know a small number of kanji you're being exposed to sentences with much lower rates of kanji than a text you understand 50% or less. Reading a sentence of mostly kana isn't preparing your brain to read normal Japanese with the regular frequency of kanji, seeing the shape of the sentences and regular patterns you'd encounter. This is often the problem with people moving from textbook Japanese to like, a newspaper for instance. They aren't used to the real forms and the sheer walls of kanji as compared to their tailored experience. It's like saying can you practice swimming in the ocean with tides and waves by using one of those small backyard kiddie pools: you definitely can, but you'd get better much faster by swimming in the actual ocean even though it's much harder.
Enjoyed the content, but subscribing for the Matt Bomer reference
First 30 seconds of this video is literally my life.
LITERLLY - ドラゴンボール
I'm pretty proficient in listening but reading... I feel like I stopped at n3 XD
The exams are a nightmare, not attempting n1, because my speed is soooo slowwww...
But it's time to start tryiiiingg!
Did you use your laptop to kill a fly or something?
🤣👍
What do you think about JapanesePod101? I started using it and I think it's an incredible learning tool! But I'd like to know your opinion about it. :-)
Márcio Rodrigo dude funny story, that’s the site that started me on Japanese!!! I actually recommend it as a starter place for people who want to learn but aren’t sure if they want to commit to super serious studies, like get the free week trial and download all the beginner seasons and just run them with the pdf’s! I think for a start it’s a heck of a resource!
Chad Zimmerman そうですね。My study method is to add the sentences I still don't know in a SDS and listen to the audios several times. Do you think it's not a good resource for intermediate students? I look at this tool as a great one to learn new vocabulary and structures. Isn't it?
I would never use it for anything beyond beginner. Tbh if you're serious it's not really even the best for beginner it's just the best for the price (of free). The best textbook for beginner that I've found is Genki. Intermediate is tough since it's such a wide topic, you'll need several books to get through it and kinda know what you're doing imo
Me who started Japanese with Yoko Sensei: *Blinking guy meme insert*
@@ThatsMyChad truer words... I've been stuck in Intermediate hell for decades. I actually think this is the sweet spot of Japanese language learning, or language learning in general - there's just nothing comprehensive out there to grab onto once you hit "defeated Duolingo" status, that isn't a giant confusing muddle.
What is the name of the first book?the super basic level please! And great video! I am watching you from Mexico!
Patricia Vazquez was it the black cover one??
Chad Zimmerman about the kid that becomes an angel and fight the crime and has images and you dont need dictionary :)
Patricia Vazquez ohhhh it’s a manga called D N Angel!
Cool to see another DNAngel fan out in the wild.
I’m in year 7 1 I’m a weeb 2 my dream university is in Osaka
Five or *fewer* things.
I wish you had ideas/examples of books for beginners.
I started with the manga こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 , colloquially called kochikame for short. Has Furigana, fun stories but demanding language at times too. I'm N1 level Japanese now, but still like kochi kame.
I'm planning to get a Non-fiction Japanese book about my culture and a Hopi book I saw on the reservation....and maybe I could get a picture book around 3rd or 4th grade level.
I thought it was weird that everyone call you a chad in comments until I found out it's your real name lol
It took me 1 month to understand English. It was amazing
Hey Chad as always a very good Video ! I wanna ask you if you have any experience with a book called Tobira .
It's a Japanese-English Textbook for Intermediate-Advanced readers. thx for your time
I actually got ahold of an online PDF from a fan to review, but I don't think I can do it justice without the full online resources :/ So I'm saving to buy it to review for you guys!
More productive, anything that helps me learn to read better is desired.
I've found Japanese.io pretty helpful
@@yogakudaigaku If I am honest, I've never found a truly helpful system. They are just one more line of work I have to add to my already busy day with the randomized chance as the only reason to do them. I might just be another intermediate failure and it's honestly suicide-inducing.
@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet I guess it's best to avoid anything that is getting you down that much! I think language, a new language, your native language, whatever is meant to be about connection between people. So if it's not helping that, it's probably not helping anything.
what is the name of the red book you showed? Loved the video!
hey man I never comment but I've been watching your vids for a while, I know the meanings to around 800 kanji but can read next to nothing, would you purely recommend Heisig's remembering the kanji vol 2 to learn readings? feels like I'm at a stand still with kanji!
I actually never used his volume 2. I stopped after 1,500 from meanings, and just by learning vocabulary I was able to connect the dots.
So if from learning Japanese you know ねこ is cat, and from Heisig you know 猫 is cat, you can connect that dot without the help of the book. But it requires you read A LOT. And study Japanese pretty hard because you're essentially trying to learn it organically. If you want a more, spoon fed version? Then you can try and find a reading's list like the 日本語総まとめ series for the JLPT. I used that just to solidify my N2 Kanji reading's. But for the most part I've made most of my progress just by connecting dots on my own.
thanks so much that was super useful!
Aiya A. jj
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What were the names of the books in this video? Also, where do you buy your books?
Very informative video. Thank you.
Which ones? I didn't give names cause they were just to give you some level examples and the actual book I was holding was less important. And I buy them in Japan :) If you want the manga and light novels though check out my manga club on my patreon!
Have a good day!
Were you ever able to get around to doing a video on reading?
Chad, I've nearly memorised my Kana and just started getting into Kanji. I want a reading material for the complete beginner, could you link one or three of them please?
Currently I'm using an app on android called Kanji Tree and I'm doing it's Grade 1 recognize section. It's basically flash cards, but I want to open a book and try to read...all the books I find though feel too complex. Can you help me find something that I can just get started on?
Got you fam! Heres a link to all children's books in Japanese, free to read! life.ou.edu/stories/
I will say this, These often are about as easy as you'll get in the real world unless you have something tailored to your level, like a textbook or something. So if this is still too complex, it just might be too early for native materials with the method you're trying. Id suggest finding a tailored reading method where everything builds and stacks like a genki textbook or some other means of organizing the levels chapter by chapter!
@@ThatsMyChad I tried that method of going with "easy children's books" and *hated* reading. I couldn't understand anything, and it was difficult to separate the words. Sure it was easy to *sound out* but actually understanding was damn near impossible, and the actual interest was.... not at all. Children's books are boring.
Instead I find stuff with kanji much better. Doing RTK gives rough/vague meanings of kanji, and often times they can combine to make a clear meaning. Such as 子猫 you have 子 meaning child, and 猫 meaning cat. So then you get child cat, or kitten. If you've got furigana you just learned that こねこ or more properly 子猫 means kitten. Whereas in "easy" books you'd see it as これはこねこです。 and not only is it difficult to distinguish that the word there is こねこ you now must also rely on a dictionary to figure out what the word means. これは子猫です。Is *much* easier for me to read than これはこねこです。And once I start learning enough kanji like this, words start being friendly and much easier to read. When I see one I know it's *instantly* recognizable, rather than struggling to figure out where the word boundaries are and then trying to remember the sound and connect it to a meaning.
Just my experience. Also: reading kids books isn't my end goal, and are boring af. Since they don't actually help read the stuff I wanna read, why bother with them if it's so much easier to just read the stuff I actually do want to read? If the point is to get kana reading practice, then by all means it's a good way to do it. Though just reading kana everywhere, and perhaps better: old japanese video games like Legend of Zelda, are a lot more fun and can help with kana practice.
@@Otome_chan311 alright guys, i'll give the textbooks a try then. thanks for the replies and also, the insights.
I recommend just learning words in Kanji from the start rather than learning the words without kanji and trying to memorise kanji as individual things separately.
Hey Chad. Love your videos!! Do you have tips on how to find books when you don't travel to Japan? Seems like every time I try to find a book on Amazon it is in English. I ordered the first よつば book per your other video, but what about advancing from that book. I want to try learning more by reading and immersion, but need to find books in Japanese... not English! Thoughts or recommendations?
Sadly I don't have an easy answer for physical books :/ but for online or ebooks here's two sites I use! One is lower level, one is more intermediate and advanced!
life.ou.edu/stories/
www.aozora.gr.jp/
i recommend looking into websites like bookoff, kinokuniya, or amazon jp(they ship to the states)
Ahh good good. Good job good job
Damn, I got exposed for wanting to swoon the ladies with my 日本語 skills.
But anyways, I know I'm 2 years late to the party, but I've been studying Japanese for a year now and I'd really like to get into reading, but I've got trouble finding fitting books. I'd like to (as you say) be able to read a book with a maximum of 10 words to look up per page. So, any reading recommendations from you or the comments would be appreciated. Or textbooks with stories to read?
What about games? For example playing some of the original Final Fantasies, or any other RPG's / text-heavy games in Japanese, would that be worth it? Or too hard / too much vocabulary that you'll barely use?
I've been on and off learning for awhile and if I ever want something light to read, I pick up my volume of Yotsuba To! I've barely gotten my hands into grammar and kanji but its enjoyable to skim through.
I need more books in my life hahaha 📕📗📘📙📚
Did you drop your laptop? Looks cracked in a couple corners.
No that's just wear and tear from this thing being my work horse for RUclips and school :P
You know, i dont like reading in my native language nor english that much if its not for computers, but in japanese, ill read a law book
Spoken Japanese isn't incorrect Japanese it's just different like teneigo and sonkeigo are different.
>first just get a book you can read
wow thanks if I could do that I wouldn't be watching this video. Kinda poor advice here.
I was hoping for practical tips on how to go from "damn I understand almost none of this" to the point where you're describing "understanding almost all except maybe 5-10 words". The "harder" books are actually easier for me, since kanji can convey meaning sometimes, but the hiragana version of words just leave it as a mess of sounds and unknown words.
If you want to go from not understanding to understanding, don't you just need to learn grammar and vocab?
How long should it take to read most manga pretty easily?
2 years
What different websites or apps that you used to learn a foreign language? For reading time of the day. I would like to read more often in Japanese. Is there anything that you recommend doing that?
When you're able to.
I think www.japanese.io/home is pretty good, has wide array of readings with built in furigana etc. I've also started a channel related to Japanese translations and reading if you want to look.
Anyone here can tell me how hard is it to read the SAO light novels in Japanese? I was wondering how far my abilities should be when starting to read stuff like that
chad still lookin cute
I'm bashful
Right? Gah damn.
Hey man,
I always wonder where people get their japanese mangas and books from. I only found like 2 mangas that are actually in japanese on amazon and the delivery takes 2 months pepehands
What country are you in? If it's America I run a Manga Club where I send people 4 books a month. It got a little shaken up since the borders closed, but it's a good entry point. You can also do an amazon prime account from Japan but you need to pay the extra international shipping. Ebay sometimes has deals, and I've ever found them at those cool indie book stores that also sell records. But finding a specific book or volume can be difficult for a reasonable price.
@@ThatsMyChad Im in germany, and Ive tried using the japanese amazon, but it didnt work and Ive heard that you can use any Region for Amazon EXCEPT Japan and korea or so sadge
@@FR_N-do4xi me too!
6:37 Chad, can you please type the title and the poet’s name?
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Anyone know if Konosuba LN is worth it for reading practice? (in term of vocab is it too fantasy-ish)
i'm planning to buy it after finishing RRTK and Tanggo N5
if your vocab and grammar knowledge is only n5 level then konosuba will be way too hard for you. do the core 2.3 anki deck, with sentences and audio (google it and download it) and then try the konosuba LN.
@@babygorl9541 yah, i'm still in the process of learning N5 Deck and grammar after finishing RRTK 1. Then i just realize my reading skill is way too low, I'm probably gonna wait until the next 6 months and maybe starting it from reading VN cuz they have voice acting too.
@@ジョシュア-p2x how is your JP now? Did you read Konosuba?
i have a japanese book but i cant understand it XD i can read it but i dont understand about it
yoko sakachan same
the vocabulary of japan is so hard to learn but grammar are easy
Then don't worry about understanding, just try and get as quick at reading the kanji and kana as you can! It will help you later on in your studies ^_^
Wait, I'm sorry. What the hell did you just say?
Yeah, I'm going to need you to pronounce Albany one more time, pal. It isn't Al-Bunny.
What’s the name of the red book, and what exact manga and book would you recommend for a beginner?
It's called 海と毒薬, it's by 遠藤周作 who is just a delight to read. I don't know if you heard about that Silence movie that came out recently but that's also one of his stories!
And I can recommend a really good series: Yotsubato is great for beginners. It's nice since it doesn't feel like it's trying to pander to beginners like children's books do. I, to this day, have the complete set :)
Chad Zimmerman I appreciate that, and thank you
9:38 or men
Is it just me or Are you wearing Eren Jaeger's key to the basement?
Haha! I get that a lot, but no it's something I've worn since I was 16 :P Got it at a antique store!
@@ThatsMyChad and....is a real OLD KEY or just a replica?
5:56 lmao! Dab on the haters
Yo Chad!
Wassup Plague!
Chad Zimmerman Falling asleep. Almost missed your video man!
stared with one piece on anime and now i got my manga coming in soon
I want the complete one piece collection, every time I'm in Japan they have like 80 volumes for $100 and it's sooooo tempting. But they're too easy and sadly that's money I can spend on boring old novels :/ Oh well, the pains of being upper intermediate
@@ThatsMyChad nothings wrong with repeating the easy ones :D
特攻隊 agreed! But if I’m gonna progress with my studies on a budget I need to budget accordingly :/ hopefully soon I’ll reach a really good pace and I can just buy whatever I want and not think about growing in the language xD
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