Learning Japanese from scratch: My Toolkit
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2022
- Learning Japanese is a small (although it feels quite massive) part of my journey of finding the Japan in Me.
Just sharing a few tool that give me structure in my approach. Let me know if you think there are other cool tools I can use!
Links to my toolkit are below!
➡️ Tofugu Blog: www.tofugu.com/
➡️ @ToKiniAndy RUclips Channel: / @tokiniandy
➡️ WaniKani Web Based Kanji & Vocabulary: www.wanikani.com/login
➡️ Practice Book: amzn.eu/d/bvtHKBG
➡️ Genki Workbook (Third Edition): www.amazon.co.uk/Genki-Third-...
➡️ Japanese with Shun: open.spotify.com/show/0TWRqow...
➡️ Yotsuba (First Book): amzn.eu/d/1X19PIJ
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I’m learning Japanese in honor of my recently deceased Japanese grandmother. I’m also planning on visiting Japan for my 30th birthday to visit my family over there. It’s a long road- but I’m ready to start it!
Did I just find a personally relatable channel? The whole purpose of your channel resonates with me as a half Japanese myself who grew up not knowing how to speak the language. I always felt uncomfortable when people expect of me to know Japanese (which is understandble! they ask out of pure curiosity). I had always felt bad about that. I am glad to have found your channel that now I am also starting to take Japanese seriously as I begin to discover the "Japan in me" and find the "Japanese in me". Guess who's subscribing! 💛
Love your enthusiasm and I hope you keep at it until you reach fluency. If you get a chance, do take an immersion course in Japan for as long as you can. I spent two months studying at Genkijacs in Fukuoka and Tokyo; classes are conducted entirely in Japanese. The text used is Minna no Nihongo which I have come to prefer over Genki (which was the text I first used). Cheers.
Well done! がんばて
I’m also learning Japanese and a few others 😊. Thanks for sharing
Awesome!!! What tool are you using? I’m still always on the search for good ones :)
I'm excited for you~! Look forward to more videos 💕
good luck on your journey!! I have just started as well after doing countless hours of research (was soo overwhelming). I've got a bit of a different method but I'm looking forward to the journey 😄
There is so much out there for Japanese language learning! What’s your method? 🤓 let’s do this 😄💪
This makes me so happy. Brilliant. I am on this journey with you x
Thank you so so much 🤩
こにちはわたしは ハーフ にも です。I've also just started my Japanese Journey, I've never been there but it is my dream to go and I believe I have some distant relatives there who I hopefully will speak with in Japanese one day. I'm using Genki for grammer and I learned hiragana and katakana through Tofugu. I've also started building an Anki deck that I add to every time I find a new word I want to learn, it's really useful. NHK news website is also really useful for reading practice. 頑張ってねにほんごです。
Anki! How do you find using it? I have stayed away from it at the moment, using an app called Benkyo. Will check NHK out! :)
Looks like a great channel. Subbed!
Have you thought about the online course/website/book Japanese from Zero? I’ve started the free part, and I also have Pimsluer. I watch a RUclips channel (among others) about a young rickshaw driver called ‘Yuka Chan’. I recommend it.
i'm almost a year in learning japanese and i still can't comprehend the yotsubato manga. Well I do understand few things as I go but I would highly recommend to not set a short deadline for such a goal, otherwise you will be overwhelmed as you proceed with your plan and gets burned quickly.
I recommend getting familiar with the language by building a study habit for listening and reading instead of studying kanji one by one (strokes, reading,etc). It is ok if you don't recognize the kanjis at firsts, but as you go you will get the feeling that you've seen this or that kanji before and that when it will starts to kick in.
You will come across the most important kanjis often, and when that happen, your brain will start to pay more attention to them and results in remembering them forever.
At the moment I find it hard to gauge at what stage I’d be ready to read through yotsuba, so I’ve actually just set it aside for now! Do you have an guess based on the genki books / jlpt levels how much I’d have to know before I pick yotsuba back up?
I learned hiragana and katakana on a 12hr night shift using the dr moku app. it was free back then but costs a few quid now I'd imagine, but the mnemonics just drilled the kana into my mind =]
Wanikani is primarly a kanji not vocabulary learning tool. Vocabulary is the largest time sink and so I would highly recommend puttin more focus on it, preferably using a SRS. Also, half a year for Yotsuba is pretty optimistic.
What stage would I have to get to to read yotsuba? Mixed opinions online to be honest, so it’s hard to tell let alone set a timeline!
@Japan in Me @Japan in Me There are so many variables that it is hard to say. Most important are how many hours you sink, what are you studying and many other things.
But my back of the envelop math would be something like: spend a year learning basic vocab like core 2000 and grammar. (You can do this much faster) And then if you spend maybe a year 1.5 hours a day reading/listening , learning vocab and grammar from Yotsuba like material (very casual, childish language ) after that I think you should have a pretty decent chance to understand 98% of Yotsuba.
If you don't mind learning from games, Game Gengo is a really helpful channel. He does a good job of telling you when it's "manga/game" speech and when its normal everyday speech.
This is cool! I’ve explored it a little, looks fun
good luck on your journey!! i am learning japanese as well and starting out with some n5 kanji!
Thank you so much 🙏🏻 all the best to you too! How are you finding it so far?
It is not that hard cuz I got motivated because one of cousins visited Japan without learning hiragana and survived 10 days!
I’m very excited to follow your Japanese learning journey!💫 I myself have been learning Japanese language and culture for about 1 year now (although it’s been more 8 months in reality since I took a break during the summer) and seeing other learning it too is really motivating! ☺️ I’m planing to go study for 1 year in Japan next autumn so seing videos about people learning Japanese help me stay on track haha!
Yes yes! It’s quite inspiring to see other people’s journeys learning Japanese. Thank you so much :) share with me what you’re using in terms of tools! Have a great week
Good luck on your journey - The JLPT Tango books are super useful for the most common words.
Nice!!!!!!!
Like for TokiniAndy and WaniKani 😀