A few years ago my brother gave me a sweatshirt as a present with "日本語を勉強しています。話しかけてください" written on it. It was such a blessing when I got to Japan, because native speakers smiled or laughed at me (not in the wrong way) but actually talked to me. I was so happy! So I suggest getting and wearing one of those funny clothes with japanese sentences they really help.
I love these tips! Some of them really do highlight that "You don't have to be perfect, the point of language learning is to communicate. So it's okay if you don't know EVERYTHING you encounter. Focus on what matters to you." Thank you for these!
These were some really good tips and some I already use, so it felt a little validating lol. I have to keep telling myself when I encounter new vocab "you don't need to remember every single word you learn. You don't have to be perfect. If i stay consistent those words will come up and you will learn them in context later in your studies".
yES KATAKANA YES YES. Thank you. I'm thoroughly convinced that any beginner (without a kanji background) benefits the most from learning katakana first. And yet they end up learning hiragana first, not understanding a word of what they're reading, an when they finally progress to katakana, they've gotten so used to hiragana that katakana overwhelm them. That's such a waste. I could only read katakana for YEARS (before I seriously started learning Japanese) and they were enough for me to navigate Japanese shopping websites easily. Also, I can confirm immediately showing a room of Japanese people that you can speak Japanese really helps with integrating into the group.
As someone trying to learn Japanese, with a 1 year old, and starting a YT channel, super useful for this to come out on Feb 1st to keep the waning momentum new years resolutions going. Loved tip #2 for my Japan trip coming up in a few weeks. Tip #3's labelling was veto'd by my wife XD. I can also imagine your thoughts with the autofocus ~I have 2 babies, I don't have time to rerecord~. Glad that you kept it moving to put out great content as always!
I’m trying to immerse myself more with Netflix and RUclips… my kids’ books. And I just cracked open the texts from page 1 again to refresh and remember. (My degree is in Japanese ffs and my head is like 🤯 empty) You’d think it would be a lot easier, since I live with a Japanese person 😂 but he’s not nice about corrections and I also have 3 gremlins that refuse to accept the gospel of nihongo. I know for me, it’s pretty much all useless until I’m back in Japan, sink or swim. Thank you for the motivation to keep going and trying in the meantime!
7 years ago, I saved your video about Japanese study tips on my RUclips playlist, and I am glad that I saw a new video from you again sharing effective Japanese study tips. Tysm! ✨
I've been practicing your tip #2 of don't forget to speak first. There's a lot of Japanese restaurants in my area so I thought it'd be a great place to practice some Japanese. To my surprise, many Japanese restaurants are owned and staffed by Chinese and Korean people. Not all of them speak Japanese but sometimes I'm able to practice Japanese and it's been really great!
i used an app and went during most of janurary studying. then i had to get a new phone and forgot to back up my phone and couldnt remember the log in info. i went a good 14-15 days of learning japanese so for me its a start
Hi Loretta, Do you have any tour recommendation for a Japan trip? I traveled to Nagoya for work in 2018 and didn't have much free time to explore. I would like to go back on vacation and experience more of Japan.
Dear Loretta, I saw your kids childcare book, and I never have seen how it is called. Even in doramas appears, but I looked into the textbooks and it don't appear. My question is: How is called that notebook that writes the teacher and the parents on it to communicate? Is mandatory only to childcare facilities or to even to elementary school?
Awesome video! Question though: what is リカちゃん？Is that the dictionary app that was mentioned? How does it differ from a learning app like LingQ? Are they isomorphic? I use a lot of this app to help me learn new words, and I'm not sure if this gradual hallucination you speak of in the sixth point will just magically work for me if I continue reading 魔女の宅配便 without some assistance. Although, you do make an excellent point in that I don't practice a lot of top-down, look-and-assess reading practice with Japanese. I guess I should practice sight reading things cold turkey now and again. I want that magic you speak of.
actually i didnt start out january like that and now finally im not burnt out on japanese and want to study 😂 but also i have a proficiency test coming up getting me out of spainish germen or french 😅
I don't think to never use dictionaries any more is a good advice. to learn new words though only context hasn't worked for me. i can't think of any word i learned purely through context...
🤚meeee,Lolol I even bought new study guides and I feel like a snail 🐌 I want to try italki so bad but I don’t ever feel I know enough to even begin! So I’m just trying to learn all the essential kanji and basic vocab 😅
I’m currently working on my bachelors and plan on doing my masters in Japan. I plan on mastering in digital marketing, but im currently doing Japanese for my undergraduate. Especially since I’m interested in the mext scholarship, should I change my undergraduate to be business related as well?
Hello, thank you for this video. Can you make a video in which you elaborate on the chart at 9:10. It looks like this method has a lot of potential but you didn't really explained it. I didn't understand. Thank you.
If I'm reading it correctly it lists the days of the week in Japanese and each corresponding line lists the action for that particular day hope that I helped
日(Sun) 月(Mon) 火(Tues) 水(Wed) 木(Thur) 金(Fri) 土(Sat) She's saying to make yourself a schedule where you do an activity every few days, or on certain days of the week :)
Hello Loretta, I'm from Mexico and I've been researching to go study Japanese, in fact I have n5 (but it took me more than 5 years, so... I want to go there to learn it faster), I asked at the language school issi. Can you recommend schools to learn that are a little cheaper?(also in a accommodate)
Great vid! Thanks for the tips 😍 I've been thinking about my dusty notes.. I'm going to put myself out there and write a bit on italki everyday with what I learn. Also the tip about saying something in Japanese when you enter a room #chefkiss 😍
I’m currently in the process of re-learning Japanese since I haven’t used it actively in seven years. 😅 In college we used Genki, which never really clicked. So I’m starting over using the Japanese From Zero series. At least to get started again. Eventually I’ll use italki for further practice.❤
didn't know that there are people with an habit of moving to japan which can be stopped :D After the first time you should have already grasped the basic vocab
Nice tips. For videos from now on, make sure to keep your hands beneath the lens. Watching your face, the image blurred repeatedly because your hands kept raising up. I want to see your clear face in order to connect. Thx..✌
A few years ago my brother gave me a sweatshirt as a present with "日本語を勉強しています。話しかけてください" written on it. It was such a blessing when I got to Japan, because native speakers smiled or laughed at me (not in the wrong way) but actually talked to me. I was so happy! So I suggest getting and wearing one of those funny clothes with japanese sentences they really help.
What a great idea! Gonna nick it.
にほんをすきでいてくれてありがとうございます！ヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ
べんきょうがんばってください。
いつかにほんでおしゃべりできるのをたのしみにしています♡
I love these tips! Some of them really do highlight that "You don't have to be perfect, the point of language learning is to communicate. So it's okay if you don't know EVERYTHING you encounter. Focus on what matters to you." Thank you for these!
These were some really good tips and some I already use, so it felt a little validating lol. I have to keep telling myself when I encounter new vocab "you don't need to remember every single word you learn. You don't have to be perfect. If i stay consistent those words will come up and you will learn them in context later in your studies".
For real!! It's so hard to move past new vocab, but I love that mantra you tell yourself. We'll come across those words again! @cupcake32009
yES KATAKANA YES YES. Thank you. I'm thoroughly convinced that any beginner (without a kanji background) benefits the most from learning katakana first. And yet they end up learning hiragana first, not understanding a word of what they're reading, an when they finally progress to katakana, they've gotten so used to hiragana that katakana overwhelm them. That's such a waste. I could only read katakana for YEARS (before I seriously started learning Japanese) and they were enough for me to navigate Japanese shopping websites easily.
Also, I can confirm immediately showing a room of Japanese people that you can speak Japanese really helps with integrating into the group.
The autofocus on the camera made it really hard to watch, but I did love listening to your study hacks! Thanks!!
HELLO FRIDAY UPLOADS 🔥🔥🔥
I can raise my hand. I managed to study 760 hours since June last year to December. In Jan. In January I did 70 hours.
As someone trying to learn Japanese, with a 1 year old, and starting a YT channel, super useful for this to come out on Feb 1st to keep the waning momentum new years resolutions going. Loved tip #2 for my Japan trip coming up in a few weeks. Tip #3's labelling was veto'd by my wife XD. I can also imagine your thoughts with the autofocus ~I have 2 babies, I don't have time to rerecord~. Glad that you kept it moving to put out great content as always!
xD You read my mind with the autofocus. Legit was like WE JUST LEARN AND MOVE ON!!!
This is the first time I heard someone say that the job market in Tokyo is less competitive. I’d love to have a whole dedicated video on this.
Saki is a great tutor!!!!
Saki-san is also my tutor, as she knows portuguese as well is easy to us understand each other! I like her a lot :)
I’m trying to immerse myself more with Netflix and RUclips… my kids’ books. And I just cracked open the texts from page 1 again to refresh and remember. (My degree is in Japanese ffs and my head is like 🤯 empty)
You’d think it would be a lot easier, since I live with a Japanese person 😂 but he’s not nice about corrections and I also have 3 gremlins that refuse to accept the gospel of nihongo.
I know for me, it’s pretty much all useless until I’m back in Japan, sink or swim.
Thank you for the motivation to keep going and trying in the meantime!
Never been this early. How’d you know I was trying to get back into studying!
I'm living in Japan but im studying French 😂 im aiming to take JLPT N2 this year...... i should probably start studying Japanese
Great advice!
7 years ago, I saved your video about Japanese study tips on my RUclips playlist, and I am glad that I saw a new video from you again sharing effective Japanese study tips. Tysm! ✨
ありがとうございます！
Hi i love your videos. Love from Indonesia ❤
The last tip you mentioned, I can relate to that. Im going to do the same thing
I've been practicing your tip #2 of don't forget to speak first. There's a lot of Japanese restaurants in my area so I thought it'd be a great place to practice some Japanese. To my surprise, many Japanese restaurants are owned and staffed by Chinese and Korean people. Not all of them speak Japanese but sometimes I'm able to practice Japanese and it's been really great!
I had no idea about this 30 day- challenge!! Great advice!!! Thank you!!!
i used an app and went during most of janurary studying. then i had to get a new phone and forgot to back up my phone and couldnt remember the log in info. i went a good 14-15 days of learning japanese so for me its a start
Good to see you back on the tube, girliepop! 💜
Hi Loretta, Do you have any tour recommendation for a Japan trip? I traveled to Nagoya for work in 2018 and didn't have much free time to explore. I would like to go back on vacation and experience more of Japan.
The way Kirby just turned around disapprovingly when you mentioned bad study habits with flash cards 😂❤️
the pay is - 40% than the US. (and that's not accounting for the current exchange rate--that makes it worse)
😉😉😉
Dear Loretta, I saw your kids childcare book, and I never have seen how it is called. Even in doramas appears, but I looked into the textbooks and it don't appear. My question is: How is called that notebook that writes the teacher and the parents on it to communicate?
Is mandatory only to childcare facilities or to even to elementary school?
Renrakucho (literally "contact book")
Awesome video! Question though: what is リカちゃん？Is that the dictionary app that was mentioned? How does it differ from a learning app like LingQ? Are they isomorphic?
I use a lot of this app to help me learn new words, and I'm not sure if this gradual hallucination you speak of in the sixth point will just magically work for me if I continue reading 魔女の宅配便 without some assistance. Although, you do make an excellent point in that I don't practice a lot of top-down, look-and-assess reading practice with Japanese. I guess I should practice sight reading things cold turkey now and again. I want that magic you speak of.
What do you think of apps like Pimsleur when just starting to learn?
actually i didnt start out january like that and now finally im not burnt out on japanese and want to study 😂 but also i have a proficiency test coming up getting me out of spainish germen or french 😅
mayyyybe I haven’t touched any of my flashcard stacks yet this year…
I don't think to never use dictionaries any more is a good advice. to learn new words though only context hasn't worked for me. i can't think of any word i learned purely through context...
🤚meeee,Lolol I even bought new study guides and I feel like a snail 🐌 I want to try italki so bad but I don’t ever feel I know enough to even begin! So I’m just trying to learn all the essential kanji and basic vocab 😅
ive applied to a language school but im not staying there after i finish im doing it for experience
Thank you for these tips! I had a question, what is a good discord group to join?
Genuinely smiled at the door frame advice 😃
I need to work with Saki! 😭
I'm gonna put まだやっていますか in my back pocket. so many places wanna give me english menu right off the bat.
I know some Japanese from school, but not as fluently like I used to.
I’m currently working on my bachelors and plan on doing my masters in Japan. I plan on mastering in digital marketing, but im currently doing Japanese for my undergraduate. Especially since I’m interested in the mext scholarship, should I change my undergraduate to be business related as well?
Do natives go with ピジ or パソコン for a computer?
Hello, thank you for this video.
Can you make a video in which you elaborate on the chart at 9:10. It looks like this method has a lot of potential but you didn't really explained it. I didn't understand.
Thank you.
If I'm reading it correctly it lists the days of the week in Japanese and each corresponding line lists the action for that particular day hope that I helped
日(Sun) 月(Mon) 火(Tues) 水(Wed) 木(Thur) 金(Fri) 土(Sat)
She's saying to make yourself a schedule where you do an activity every few days, or on certain days of the week :)
Gosh, I've missed your videos!! 😄
Love your content, as always 💜
Hello Loretta, I'm from Mexico and I've been researching to go study Japanese, in fact I have n5 (but it took me more than 5 years, so... I want to go there to learn it faster), I asked at the language school issi. Can you recommend schools to learn that are a little cheaper?(also in a accommodate)
Great vid! Thanks for the tips 😍 I've been thinking about my dusty notes.. I'm going to put myself out there and write a bit on italki everyday with what I learn. Also the tip about saying something in Japanese when you enter a room #chefkiss 😍
I’m currently in the process of re-learning Japanese since I haven’t used it actively in seven years. 😅 In college we used Genki, which never really clicked. So I’m starting over using the Japanese From Zero series. At least to get started again. Eventually I’ll use italki for further practice.❤
Japanese from Zero is a good series.
didn't know that there are people with an habit of moving to japan which can be stopped :D After the first time you should have already grasped the basic vocab
I felt so called out in the first 15 seconds of this video. 😂
カードチャプターさくら！(^▽^)かわいいですよね～♡私も大好きです。
日本語の勉強のために、そんなに大切に読んでくださってるなんて、作者のCLAMPさんはとてもとても喜ぶと思います♡
あっはっはww(≧∇≦)wwドアを開けてキョロキョロしながら入ってくるのも「ここ空いてますかね・・？」の「かね」の言いっぷりも最高ですwwwかわいい♡かわいい♡
Nice tips. For videos from now on, make sure to keep your hands beneath the lens. Watching your face, the image blurred repeatedly because your hands kept raising up. I want to see your clear face in order to connect. Thx..✌
You got it my dude!
kirby moved....
don't agree on skipping kanji. learn kana, gana, and the first 100 kanji before you get here.
the word you're looking for is *gist* try learning english
It's ok: Even us Star Wars fans hate Star Wars now.
tbh I only like the new Star Wars stuff lmao
I have more than a little bit of Japanese but I did not catch that lol. (Ok to be fair I am watching this video sped up)
you talk so much with your hands your camera is CONFLICTED on what to focus on lmfao
xD just like my studies...