Assume i use all the best resources and dedicate a large portion of my time = 14-15 hrs a day, i consider myself above average in academics, sooo is it possible for me to get a grasp of Japanese on the n5 level in just under a month? If you do think that it’s possible please link some free resources for me to use
(Edit cause i realise that i sounded like a jerk earlier)
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Long-term memory won’t build up, but you might put enough into your head to get around the test if it’s at the end of your specified time frame.
Free resources? Anki, Tae Kim’s Grammar Guide, and Tofugu are the first that come to my mind. I don’t like anki, but this is due to personal learning preferences and not because it is bad or something like that.
The best resources aren’t free as far as I’m concerned, but that’s just my opinion. It depends on learning style, preferences, and budget.
r/languagelearningjerk
real answer: not many people do 14-15 hours a day
so we don’t have many points of data, not enough to give you a confident answer
for science, you now have to study 15 hours every day for 25 days and tell us what happens. I’m checking back in 25 days so please let us all know.
Hope you don’t need to cook, shower, or go to the bathroom, because you are gonna want to get full night of sleep if you are studying for 15 hours.
Heads-up though, you need to know at least over 100 kanji plus grammar and vocabulary. That’s roughly between 200-300 hrs of learning Japanese at an N5 level.
I’m saying this in a nice way possible as a beginner too, but you should definitely take your time and not rush in less than a month because you have to study three writing systems: hiragana, katakana, and kanji.
If you’re genuinely spending 14 hours a day on studying, absolutely.
In practice, most people would spend at least some of those 14 hours eating, using the bathroom, taking the dog around the block so he can use the bathroom, answering texts, checking the news, so they’d end up spending way less than 14 hours actually studying.
Just to pass JLPT N5? I think yes.
> Is it possible to learn Japanese in 20-25 days at N5 level?
Do you want to learn Japanese or pass the test?
If you want to pass N5 I’d say its possible. Grab some example tests online/books and start grinding them out. You’ll start to get an idea, assuming you don’t mind getting a low score try to concentrate on the harder areas (like listening) as you don’t just need an overall pass but a pass on each section.
Just keep in mind though that this will be essentially useless past the test (I would know as I passed many university courses studying a day or two before an exam this way and now I wish I didn’t).
If you really want to learn, you’ll need to study in a way that fits long term (which is why SRS and Time is important, both up-time studying and down-time not studying so you can get that recollection).
Or if you really just want to speak/understand some basics, then hitting up Pimsleur twice a day for 25 days I feel would get you pretty far conversationally and it at least has some SRS in it.
Yeah I think that’s possible. Not saying it’s likely.
First, I’ll assume you already read hiragana and katakana, and you you can understand this sentence:
わたしはさかなとにくがすき。
(Requires: hiragana, grammar for は、が、と)
use anki and look for the core 1000 vocab