HomeLearn JapaneseHey everyone hope you’re well and happy new year! I was gifted $100.00 for X-Mas. So I was wondering if there’s a cost effective way I could use the money to learn Japanese as a beginner.
Hey everyone hope you’re well and happy new year! I was gifted $100.00 for X-Mas. So I was wondering if there’s a cost effective way I could use the money to learn Japanese as a beginner.
Tutors are the hardest to replace with free resources
I would buy a book that has lots of Youtube videos covering it. It’s either gonna be Minna No Nihongo or Genki.
Use the money toward getting a tutor. Take advantage of the free resources on YouTube and online, spending money on a tutor will really help you boost your japanese
In addition to studying the fundamentals, I think it’s really important to make regular contact with actual use of the language. It will help everything move from abstract to practicality.
If it has movies you like and are familiar with, you could do a lot worse than a few months of a Disney+ subscription. Watching stuff in Japanese has all kinds of benefits. You may be interested in this thread about what is available in Japanese there:
People are talking about getting a tutor, but I really think you’d do better as a beginner to take advantage of the free resources available in addition to a basic textbook. I think a tutor will be more useful when you understand the fundamentals but have a hard time understanding whether you should say something this way or that way. That kind of stuff is more difficult to study on your own (though it can become intuitive by consuming massive amounts of native material).
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Tutors are the hardest to replace with free resources
I would buy a book that has lots of Youtube videos covering it. It’s either gonna be Minna No Nihongo or Genki.
Use the money toward getting a tutor. Take advantage of the free resources on YouTube and online, spending money on a tutor will really help you boost your japanese
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In addition to studying the fundamentals, I think it’s really important to make regular contact with actual use of the language. It will help everything move from abstract to practicality.
If it has movies you like and are familiar with, you could do a lot worse than a few months of a Disney+ subscription. Watching stuff in Japanese has all kinds of benefits. You may be interested in this thread about what is available in Japanese there:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DisneyPlus/comments/mqleif/does_anyone_have_a_list_of_disney_content_that/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DisneyPlus/comments/mqleif/does_anyone_have_a_list_of_disney_content_that/)
People are talking about getting a tutor, but I really think you’d do better as a beginner to take advantage of the free resources available in addition to a basic textbook. I think a tutor will be more useful when you understand the fundamentals but have a hard time understanding whether you should say something this way or that way. That kind of stuff is more difficult to study on your own (though it can become intuitive by consuming massive amounts of native material).