HomeLearn JapaneseCure Dolly has been a serious game changer after years of toil, so I’d like to ask if there are any other channels that use her approach or are as equally as game changing as her channel is?
Cure Dolly has been a serious game changer after years of toil, so I’d like to ask if there are any other channels that use her approach or are as equally as game changing as her channel is?
Cure Dolly has been a serious game changer after years of toil, so I’d like to ask if there are any other channels that use her approach or are as equally as game changing as her channel is?
In some of her early videos she mentions she draws a lot from Jay Rubin’s book “Making Sense of Japanese,” which is out of print, but worth reading if you can find it. Like Cure Dolly, I actually got more out of it after being taught the ‘wrong way’ for a while first, probably at least N4.
Japanese from Zero is a game changer for me
I miss her. Rip
I dunno about game-changing, but I personally really like [出口日語](https://youtube.com/@deguchi?si=-ppoKvtmo8BLGYpb). Edit: Everything N3 and above will be in Japanese, but unfortunately, for everything below N3, instruction is in Chinese. I found the videos when going over N2 grammar points and I like how he explains things.
I believe Cure Dolly was inspired by Jay Rubin, so you can read Jay Rubin’s book “Making Sense of Japanese”. It’s a very short book, and it’s not a textbook, by tries to get you thinking of Japanese more from a non-Western / Japanese perspective, which is Cure Dolly’s approach as well.
Like, if you have a sense of how Japanese society works, which is more of a vertical structure, a lot of the more difficult to understand concepts in Japanese start to make more sense, since language is an expression of culture. I also like his later chapter on his thought process as he reads Japanese, word by word, phrases by phrases, sentence by sentence.
Satori Reader also mentioned being inspired by Jay Rubin, and they sometimes make references to Cure Dolly as well. I think this is why I found Satori Reader translation notes for their stories so helpful and some of their grammar explanations were far better than anything I read in textbooks.
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In some of her early videos she mentions she draws a lot from Jay Rubin’s book “Making Sense of Japanese,” which is out of print, but worth reading if you can find it. Like Cure Dolly, I actually got more out of it after being taught the ‘wrong way’ for a while first, probably at least N4.
Japanese from Zero is a game changer for me
I miss her. Rip
I dunno about game-changing, but I personally really like [出口日語](https://youtube.com/@deguchi?si=-ppoKvtmo8BLGYpb). Edit: Everything N3 and above will be in Japanese, but unfortunately, for everything below N3, instruction is in Chinese. I found the videos when going over N2 grammar points and I like how he explains things.
Otherwise, for videos in English, I also really like [Masa Sensei](https://youtube.com/@MasaSensei?si=ZitWiQrOd22Z0fDV).
Really like this one. [https://www.youtube.com/@japanesewithlily/featured](https://www.youtube.com/@japanesewithlily/featured)
Very easy to understand.
I believe Cure Dolly was inspired by Jay Rubin, so you can read Jay Rubin’s book “Making Sense of Japanese”. It’s a very short book, and it’s not a textbook, by tries to get you thinking of Japanese more from a non-Western / Japanese perspective, which is Cure Dolly’s approach as well.
Like, if you have a sense of how Japanese society works, which is more of a vertical structure, a lot of the more difficult to understand concepts in Japanese start to make more sense, since language is an expression of culture. I also like his later chapter on his thought process as he reads Japanese, word by word, phrases by phrases, sentence by sentence.
I read the book in my Japanese courses in college and enjoyed it. Here’s a [review of the book from Tofugu](https://www.tofugu.com/reviews/making-sense-of-japanese/).
Satori Reader also mentioned being inspired by Jay Rubin, and they sometimes make references to Cure Dolly as well. I think this is why I found Satori Reader translation notes for their stories so helpful and some of their grammar explanations were far better than anything I read in textbooks.