Hi everyone š
Iām a 35 year old from Brazil living in Canada for the last five years. I speak Portuguese, English and Spanish fluently and this year I decided to challenge myself to learn a new language that does not uses the latin alphabet that Iām used to. Iāve always appreciated Japanese culture, movies and music, Iāve been a big fan of animes since I was a little boy. I would love to learn more about Japanese beliefs, ethics and aesthetic and leaning the language will bring a new and fresh perspective about the country, culture and its people.
What are your tips and recommendations for someone who would like to learn Japanese from scratch, I mean really, from zero?
Thank you all! I appreciate your time!
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watch boku no pico on repeat. every day
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Anyways, this is a good video in my opinion on the topic: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygsjMUj_C0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygsjMUj_C0)
Most of us here learn from scratch…
so basically you have:
1. learn kana (few days)
2. do a beginner text (genki etc) or equivalent (tae kim’s guide)
3. read a lot of books / etc (as much as you can)
4. talk to people in Japanese a lot (as much as you can)
to learn kana, google this: “Tofugu hiragana guide”
GL dude
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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