What I am trying to get at here is as George Trombley put it “Not Understanding” where you immediately get the image of the word in your mind in an instant and understand it like in English/Native Language and not have to go “okay this word means to go across, so then the image of crossing a street comes to mind.” For example:馬. I have to think for a second for an image of a horse in my mind whereas in English if you say “Horse” to me I understand immediately. Is there a reason for this? I feel like that it doesn’t give the I dunno… “emotional response” I guess…? How do I automate my vocab recognition like with English?
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You’ve seen/heard/used the word “horse” in English thousands (tens of thousands?) of times in your life to build that strong connection in your mind. See/use the Japanese word more and the same thing will happen.
How many hours total have you listened to Japanese?
Now, hoe many hours total have you listened to English?
There’s your answer. This sort of thing is purely a function of time and exposure
>How do I automate my vocab recognition like with English?
Repetition. Hearing/reading them over and over again.
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[http://gretchenschmelzer.com/blog-1/2015/1/11/understanding-learning-and-memory-the-neuroscience-of-repetition](http://gretchenschmelzer.com/blog-1/2015/1/11/understanding-learning-and-memory-the-neuroscience-of-repetition)
This should answer the “why”.
A quote from Wilferd Arlan Peterson:
**As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.**
A fancy way to say that you’ll get better eventually if you keep at it. I can promise you from personal experience, it may take time but you will get there if you don’t give up trying.
“Why am I worse at processing information in the language I’m learning than in my native language that I’ve spoken my entire life?”