You CAN Learn Japanese with Manga & Anime (Using ONE TRICK)
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2022
- A lot of people want to learn and master Japanese in a fun way, and those people run mostly to manga and anime for their educational resources. Here is one trick you can use to helping you become a Japanese master: the weeb way!
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Finally, Japanese class is now 10% easier because of Joey.
As someone who struggles with learning foreign languages in general, this is pretty helpful
Japanese Teachers hate him for this one trick.
People often forget that language goes hand in hand with culture. So when you learn a language, it's important to find out more about why certain sentences are phrased in such a way, which comes from its cultural background. This is why there are some phrases or idioms (or even words) in any language that don't necessarily have a direct equivalent in another language.
Through anime, I cannot say that I have learned how to actually SPEAK the language. What I can say however, is that I can HEAR Japanese and pick out key things in their speech. I don’t understand the sentence structure or the explicit meaning of words, but hearing phrases used over and over again in a certain context means that when these phrases come up, I can figure out the rest based on what’s going on.
Joey, I get what you are saying about having a parent that is a native speaker does not mean you can. But It can also help a lot. I have two examples. I went to high school with a guy that was born in Mexico but moved to America as a young child. His parent forbids the speaking of Spanish in their house to force their kids to be more American. So he could not speak Spanish. So this is an example of what you said. On the other hand, I was in the Air Force with a woman that had a Japanese mother and a Swedish Dad. She could only speak to her mother in Japanese and her dad in Swedish and if both parents were together she had to speak English. So she was fluent in 3 languages. In other videos, you have said your mother basically forced you to speak Japanese to her or she would ignore you. So That was a big help in forcing you to learn it. Also, you said that having someone that can fluently speak Japanese is helpful, so having one or both parents that can speak it is a natural aid.
Just because you can doesn't mean that you should...
This is exactly what my japanese teacher told me. I found a couple of kid books in japanese and started to read them, and well, it was hard. But It really, really helps. Now im waiting to enter japan and finally start the classes in the japanese school I enrolled. Great video Joey! Greetings from Chile.
I think it also depends on your specific goals for learning Japanese. If your goal is to become conversationally fluent in Japanese, then you should be focusing mostly on speaking with natives rather than reading manga. On the other hand, if your goal is to be able to read manga fluently, then focusing mostly on reading manga makes more sense.
Wait joey you finally reading hxh?
“You’re not going to be using the word “hokage” in everyday life.”
THIS! This is so true! My beginner level Japanese teacher would hand us very simple baby books to read, and while it's understandable to feel a little embarrassed initially, the feeling of reading and finally understanding EVERYTHING in those books is incredible!
I've been learning for nearly 3 years now, and what I tend to notice is a lot of learners spend more time debating the optimal way to learn Japanese, rather than just learning. e.g. if you post saying you're learning from Genki and with a tutor, you'll get told "oh you're doing it wrong, you should have been immersing" etc. So many videos out there on this topic, telling people the best way to learn, or how "everything you know about learning Japanese is wrong" etc. I think if you're studying the grammar, learning the words, and you consistently study, you'll progress. If that happens to be from manga/anime, more power to you. If it's from immersion only, that's fine too. From my perspective, this language is really hard to learn, I suck at it, so if you're making progress then that's amazing.
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As someone who basically "freestyle bruteforced" my english learning process and tried doing the same with japanese and didn't succeed, I so much needed this video. Thank you, dude!!!! Reading kid's manga's seems like a great idea, probably will be very helpful!!!
Basically it's all about finding comprehensible input. Manga and anime made for kids use less words and often very common words. Also the concepts aren't hard to explain deep introspective topics, they are simple usually fun topics which are easier to understand. I did this type of immersion along with Anki and sentence mining to learn japanese and it worked great.
I’d love to see you do more streams teaching Japanese. There’s a lot of good tutorials on RUclips right now, but I really enjoy your explanation of Japanese concepts when it comes to vocabulary.
This video is amazing, thanks Joey, I grew up in Puerto Rico where everything is in spanish, my dad grew up in the US and had almost no influence on me learning english, and I did pick up english and became fluent with just Media and Games, Just watching kids shows and movies helped me a lot, and i agree with this method 100%, Ive been trying to learn Japanese for like 10 years but i've never focused on it 100%, I'm not a super fan of anime but i know its a great way to learn. thanks!!
I like to do everything at once. When I started learning japanese I would constantly watch anime, do duolingo lessons & listen to japanese music.
I totally agree with you.