Hello! I am new to this subreddit and want to learn Japanese. Can anyone tell me what the best way is to approach this language and get to a level where I can speak normally without difficulty? Thanks in advance!
Maybe Duolingo, I’ve been teaching myself online also with YouTube videos.
It is probably best to start by learning both hiragana and katakana as well as the first few basic kanji and the different phonetics used in Japanese.
Genki and Itadori are great starter series’. Also, try to watch and read as much Japanese content as you can comfortably fit into your schedule without getting overwhelmed. Good luck!
I like the website busuu. Provides a basically structure and has enough content to get you past n4. Also, get an anki deck and do it everyday. Even if its just 1 new word a day. Kanji will take forever, so being consistent with 1 a day will be extremely helpful but not overwhelming
First things first, hiragana and katakana are essential. You can learn them in a week or two using https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/ Once you can read them and probably write them you can move on to vocabulary.
I am a big fan of the Tango Anki decks starting with Tango N5 for vocabulary. They are set up in an i +1/1t format which means they teach you with sentences but every sentence only has 1 new word. That way you see the words and grammar you have learned over and over in a natural way. I used them myself and then moved in to sentence mining later on to get to a good level of japanese. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/866090213
When it comes to starting japanese I pretty much agree with everything in this video except I prefer the free Migaku Kanji God addon Anki addon over RTK. The addon creates RTK style cards which are based on the kanji coming up in your Anki decks. https://youtu.be/L1NQoQivkIY
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Maybe Duolingo, I’ve been teaching myself online also with YouTube videos.
It is probably best to start by learning both hiragana and katakana as well as the first few basic kanji and the different phonetics used in Japanese.
Genki and Itadori are great starter series’. Also, try to watch and read as much Japanese content as you can comfortably fit into your schedule without getting overwhelmed. Good luck!
I like the website busuu. Provides a basically structure and has enough content to get you past n4. Also, get an anki deck and do it everyday. Even if its just 1 new word a day. Kanji will take forever, so being consistent with 1 a day will be extremely helpful but not overwhelming
First things first, hiragana and katakana are essential. You can learn them in a week or two using
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
Once you can read them and probably write them you can move on to vocabulary.
I am a big fan of the Tango Anki decks starting with Tango N5 for vocabulary. They are set up in an i +1/1t format which means they teach you with sentences but every sentence only has 1 new word. That way you see the words and grammar you have learned over and over in a natural way. I used them myself and then moved in to sentence mining later on to get to a good level of japanese.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/866090213
When it comes to starting japanese I pretty much agree with everything in this video except I prefer the free Migaku Kanji God addon Anki addon over RTK. The addon creates RTK style cards which are based on the kanji coming up in your Anki decks.
https://youtu.be/L1NQoQivkIY
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