Hi, I’m a beginner and I was wondering if you got any advice or tips to help improve learning Japanese? I’d already studied for 2 months before but I stop since I felt I wasn’t learning or didn’t know how.
I’m having trouble understanding particles(especially に,で) and idk where I can learn vocabulary, any advice would be appreciated!
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Consistency is key. Set a study schedule and stick to it. A good hour of studying well is worth more than a month of scattered studying.
You’re reaching the beginning of the first learning curve. Push through. Keep going.
You don’t mention what you’re using or how. Below is my Genki study plan, but feel free to alter it to suit your needs:
Two or three 45-60 minute study sessions a day are a good goal. Example: Chunk A – vocab, kanji and dialogue; Chunk B – textbook; Chunk C – workbook.
Before studying the chapter, get the vocabulary and kanji (if any) down.
Try reading the dialogue WITHOUT looking at the English translation. Try to guess the meaning from the pictures and the dialogue prompts. Check to see how you did.
Chunk A: Everyday practice vocabulary, kanji (if any) and dialogue, shadow the audio.
Chunk B: Everyday work in one grammar point. Do the associated exercises in the textbook. If it’s a speaking exercises, do both parts.
Chunk C: Do the workbook exercises sometime later.
Don’t forget to do the reading and writing in the back of the textbook. You can get your writing checked on an app like HelloTalk. Do corrections and resubmit. Move on to the next chapter and repeat.
I also suggest hiring a tutor, if you can. They can help provide extra practice and explain things to you.
Use it or lose it.
Applies to everything in life. Don’t learn something if you’re not actually planning to use it. Because without use, your brain is gonna struggle to remember anything.
So if you’re gonna learn a language, you have to expose yourself to the language regularly and you have to force yourself to try to use the knowledge you’ve already obtained on a regular basis.
Simplest suggestion is to watch anime, or read manga, or listen to podcasts, watch Japanese tv-shows – anything that exposes you to the language and allows you to utilize vocabulary or grammar you’ve learnt.
Very hard to learn a language with the approach of: “I’ll just study some vocabulary or watch the occasional youtube video about it.”
Not really gonna work.
Consistency and exposure.
You probably already understand, but you still need to have a habit and continuity.
If possible, please start by making friends who speak Japanese natively.
I think you can focus on studying Japanese for the genre you are interested in. For example, travel conversations, business terms, movies and J-music that you like.
https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/
This site explains the basics of Japanese that I always recommend to everyone in an easy-to-understand manner.
First, let’s remember it in hiragana and katakana. After that, actively remember the words and vocabulary. You don’t have to force yourself to learn kanji first.
Because in the process of memorizing vocabulary and words, you need to remember kanji. I think it would be more efficient to remember kanji at that time.
Even if it’s a word using difficult kanji, you just need to memorize it in hiragana. If you don’t read or write Japanese novels and sentences, I think you should learn kanji later.
If you start to improve, please memorize the words and vocabulary along with kanji.
The same goes for English, and even if you don’t know how to spell a word, if you remember that word, you can talk to someone.
Read the sub and stop asking about garbage that’s posted every day