Tips for learning with little freetime

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1. I think I’d recommend you the app renshuu. You have lesson schedules there and you don’t need to worry what to learn now, it also has nice features, community where you can ask questions, Japanese games for learning etc.

   Its definitely better than duolingo.
   If you want to became a lot better after you already know something it’s good to start immersing so just watching things in Japanese. It can be even podcasts (especially for beginners, they really help and prepare for more advanced content.) which you can listen to anywhere, even like in bus, going to school or work, before sleep. It can also count as a very important study time.

   You can also use things like anki deck but on renshuu it’s pretty similar, vocab, grammar, everything in one place. There’s also a dictionary, where you can find words and add to a schedule, lots of sentences, definitely recommend checking it :>>
   And if you had more time you can watch videos about grammar on YouTube, i think they’re nice for learning. For example, Cure Dolly, Japanese Ammo with Misa, Miku Real Japanese. It’s a bit like real classroom, you can take notes etc., and it’s probably more interesting than “fill in the blanks the correct form of the verb) or something.
   Also you can use Wanikani for Kanji (Or if you don’t like, maybe Kanji Garden, though wanikani teaches so vocabulary. There’s 3 free levels on there with about 80 kanji all together and about 180 vocabulary, useful for beginners. The teaching system is also pretty effective so you can get through it in about 3 weeks if you do reviews daily and it doesn’t take like a horrible amount of time.
   Kanji garden has free month and then it’s limited, but it’s still pretty nice.
   There’s also a guide somewhere here for beginners about learning, maybe someone will send a link because I’m not sure when to find it.
   Maybe it was helpful :>>

2. 5-10 minutes a day won’t give you much JP

   I’d take that 5-10 min and have a serious, serious look at your schedule.

3. If you have only 5-10 minutes a day, then you don’t want to learn the language

4. With 10 minutes of daily study it’d take you 36 years to hit the 2200 hours the FSI suggests are required for achieving Japanese proficiency

5. Listen to Japanese podcasts all day… ones for native speakers, not for learners