Hello guys, I normally don’t write here so much, but recently I got demotivated because I still can’t understand longer sentences in basic Japanese.
I finished genki 1 and 2, I also tried out RTK but I didn’t finish it because it was to much at once for me. In addition to that I got like 100+ hours of listening practice.
I can understand basic short sentences like 俺が相手だ。 when free flow listening to anime’s for example. But when sentences are longer and there is a huge pile up of words i still can’t understand it even tough I would know the single words of the longer sentences themselves.
I hope this is not only me and so I thought of asking the community. Can you guys tell me if this is a problem or if this is normal and will get fixed? How should I approach this?
Just by listening more?
I appreciate every1 who tries to help. Thank you in advance.
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I’d say read comprehensible stuff and grab random words that pique your interest
Listening doesn’t help much if you don’t know the words you’re hearing. What I did was watch anime with JP subs and looked up every word I didn’t know, then replayed the line now that I understood it. I also watched Nihongo no Mori grammar videos on YouTube. I was probably at N3 level then.
> But when sentences are longer and there is a huge pile up of words i still can’t understand it even tough I would know the single words of the longer sentences themselves.
Try listening at 0.75x speed, and seeing if that helps?