I asked: **what are the best resources to learn Japanese?**
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The AI Response was:
>There are many resources available for learning Japanese, and the best ones for you will depend on your learning style and preferences. Here are some popular options:
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>Language learning apps: Duolingo, Memrise, and Rosetta Stone all offer courses in Japanese.
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>Textbooks: Genki, Minna no Nihongo, and Japanese for Busy People
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>Online courses: Udemy, Coursera, and edX all offer Japanese courses.
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>Language exchange websites: Websites like italki, Tandem, and HelloTalk allow you to practice your Japanese with native speakers.
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>YouTube channels: JapanesePod101, Learn Japanese From Zero, and Japanese Ammo with Misa
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>Language schools: If you prefer a more structured approach, you can attend a language school in person or online.
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>It’s a good idea to try a few different resources and see what works best for you. Remember that consistency and practice are key to making progress!
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I’m curious about the books and YouTube channels that suggests
**I tried this just for fun, I know the best resource is just practice and study hard but I’m comparing several AIs for my Thesis and thought that this would be fun to ask.**
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I definitely agree with japanese from zero and japanese with ammo. Although her videos are long, it still has great information and japanese pod 101 is just as good. Except its good for extracting vocab from the videos and you can put them in anki
From youtube I would also add ToKiniAndy, full walk through videos for Genki and Quartet.
If you can get past the presentation style then the content in Cure Dolly is great.
ChatGPT is a superhuman bullshit artist. Everything it says is pure confirmation bias and its advice should never be followed.
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– Duolingo
Full of unnatural, random nonsense, only good once you’re high enough level to laugh at it. Random generation is particularly bad for Japanese *because* proficiency depends so much on knowing how people are likely to say things.
– Memrise
A worse Anki with prebuilt decks. You can get *much* better prebuilt decks for free, like Core 2.3k.
– Rosetta Stone
Duo but expensive.
– Textbooks:
I don’t use textbooks, but Genki elicits a heavy sigh from me. The grammar explanations *tell* you that basic things like te-form are difficult. You don’t need that negativity in your life.
The only textbook I feel comfortable saying good things about is *Irodori.* It doesn’t claim to be natural, it just does it. All the culture notes are parallel text, meaning you can use it as reading content once you finish the listening exercises – and there are a lot of those. The grammar is super basic but learning grammar from textbooks is sub-optimal.
– Online courses: Udemy, Coursera, and edX all offer Japanese courses.
Yes, but why?
– Language exchange websites: Websites like italki, Tandem, and HelloTalk allow you to practice your Japanese with native speakers.
You’re not supposed to use them as dating sites, but people do. I don’t want to date *and* I don’t want to be harassed about my orientation or whether my gender presentation is valid, then reported and kicked off for not fitting the culture. (Dating makes these platforms a lot of money; I’m not sure they *actually* want to get rid of it in the first place.) I have much better luck with normal social media, even with my skills being far below native, since I can engage based on shared hobbies instead.
– YouTube channels: JapanesePod101, Learn Japanese From Zero, and Japanese Ammo with Misa
Misa is good, I’d add https://www.youtube.com/@Onomappu and https://www.youtube.com/@ComprehensibleJapanese
Some of the recommendations are good. But for the AI recommendations keep in mind that the AI is unlikely to have much data on what results various resources have produced, because that data simply is not on the net. Without knowing that it can’t actually tell you what the best resources are.
It just gave you a list of some of the most commonly recommended resources. Textbooks listed are all solid options for someone starting Japanese. It’s good that it didn’t make up something.
More Chat GTP rubbish.
Look at the Starter’s guide here.