Hey everyone!
I’ve made the decision to study Japanese for my own personal reasons.
I already know a few languages so I’m not completely lost when it comes to study methods. …. However
I always had the struggle with vocabulary lists. From my research I know that everyone is using anki ( tango n5 ) and I’ll probably start there as well.
And of course I can create my own lists too but…, are there any books or websites or any resources that could guide me through vocab. Level stages ?
I almost feel like as if I’m asking too much :’ )
If anyone has recommendations regarding books or anything I’d love to hear some advices 😅
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The Tango decks are based on books that guide you through vocab, with sample sentences and various illustrations:
[https://omgjapan.com/products/1000-essential-vocabulary-for-the-jlpt-n5?_pos=3&_sid=38cad349d&_ss=r](https://omgjapan.com/products/1000-essential-vocabulary-for-the-jlpt-n5?_pos=3&_sid=38cad349d&_ss=r)
I’m relatively new to learning japanese as well (9 months in), and struggled with pre-made Anki decks. The vocabulary lists just felt like a random list of words being thrown at me, and lacked context. Anki is already a boring activity, and I hated learning from a list of random words.
Then I found this site – [https://animecards.site/](https://animecards.site/). It teaches you how to mine from anime, which I love. My cards contain a screenshot of the anime, the sentence and audio clip of where the word came from. When I review on Anki, I remember the scene and context of the word. This helps a ton with recall.
The only tedious thing is the mining itself. It can take an hour to 2 hours to mine a 20min episode, depending on how many words I want to capture.
Find a graded reader, look up the vocabulary on Jisho with stroke orders, and write out some example sentences. Analyze and convert and digest the grammatical structure into your own native language through an algebraic type writing process, if you were ever familiar with that going through school idk 🤷♂️
(If not using Tango books or Anki)
JapanesePod101 isn’t necessarily a good resource but if you use that writing method they have a lot of decent example sentences for a beginner so I suppose in that way it has its use. That’s what I did before I knew about all of these turbo charged methods
(No hate on the people that create JapPod101 they are pretty cool tbh)
Or even look up LivaKivi on YouTube – dude is wholesome and has made reasonable progress. He is paid to recommend Migaku if I’m not mistaken which will supposedly become free but at the moment is $5 a month. Not necessary but it is a decent tool from what I can see.
A solid place to start is intro level textbooks. The only issue with those is people tend to not know when to ween themselves off of them and the answer is basically as soon as you’re able, but they’re a great starting resource