Disclaimer: I'm not a researcher
So I bought 400+ Japanese stickers and labelled literally everything in my house and office in Japanese (see original post below). I'm working up to N4 and thought it would be a nice easy way to study, which it has been. But I didn't expect my two housemates to pick up much if anything. This post is the results of their two months of exposure for them from absolute zero.
Firstly, it's been hilarious. They will come in and try to start speaking Japanese and I'll have no idea what they are saying but they are super keen and trying to impress.
I've had to guide them on pronuciation because you can't obviously get that from written text very well. But their vocabularies are actually pretty good. They have mostly nouns, but there are some adjectives, prepositions and short phrases they now have too.
I would say that each of them probably have a bank of 50+ words. Whats funny is these are mostly household items like:
鎮痛剤 – painkiller
蛇口 – faucet
唐辛子 – chilli
But they also have things like:
つまらない – boring
電気をつける – turn on the light
I'll check back in after 12 months or so with a follow up if anyone's interested.
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by Practical-Corgi-6401
