How I Learn Japanese As A Complete Beginner | Daily Study Routine

🇯🇵 This is my daily routine for learning Japanese as a complete beginner! 🇯🇵
In this video, I share with you my self-study routine for learning Japanese. I show you the resources and methods that I use every day to improve my skills and have fun along the way.
You will see how I use WaniKani, a website that teaches you kanji using flashcards and spaced repetition. You will also see how I use Duolingo, a popular app that gamifies language learning. Then, I show you how I work through the Genki textbook, one of the best books for beginners. I also introduce you to Tokini Andy, a KZbin teacher who explains the Genki lessons in more detail and gives lots of examples.
I hope you enjoy this video and find it helpful. If you do, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel for more videos about learning Japanese and other languages. And don’t forget to leave a comment and let me know what your self-study routine is. Thank you for watching and see you in the next video. じゃあね！
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Content:
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - WaniKani Flashcard Review
1:25 - Duolingo Session
1:56 - Genki Textbook Work
2:38 - Watching TokiniAndy Videos
3:05 - Rewrite Notes
3:33 - Break Time
4:24 - More WaniKani Lesson
5:02 - Watching Anime/One Piece
5:53 - Concluding Thoughts
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[@languagewhorder]

Genki would not be the same without Tokini Andy! I was struggling to get through them alone. A must for self learning. Thank you for sharing your routine ❤

[@NihongobyAmanda]

I’m so happy I discovered him

[@ThuyKieuTuyetXuan]

At first, I really struggled with learning Vietnamese. But once I started using Immersive Translate to supplement my language learning that was when everything changed. I use Immersive Translate to generate subtitles to my Netflix and KZbin, and this has been a great way for me to immerse myself in my target language. I’m making progress every day and couldn’t be happier.

[@klaudiamultilingual]

Catching words and phrases that you learned in a content you watch is always so fulfilling ^^ It definitely keeps you more motivated :) And stickers are a whole vibe 🐈‍⬛

[@NihongobyAmanda]

So true! 😄

[@resberri]

that duolingo owl flickering over the screen scared me more than it should have 😂

[@NihongobyAmanda]

Haha sorry about that 😂

[@RiskyDramaUploads]

"I'll see you in my next video. Sayounara!" I laughed. Wiktionary: *This term has strong connotations of finality, so this is not used when departing a place such as one's home, unless one intends not to return in the foreseeable future.* When I was using the audio CD from a textbook (maybe Genki), I found it amazingly difficult to listen to some tracks at full speed. Even slowed, it was so hard to hear all the sounds, which I decided was because of pitch changes. Basically, speakers of non-tonal languages have to learn to pay attention to tones, even if they're just an accent in Japanese and not really essential to meaning. I never got to try it, but a method that sounded really good to me was to basically learn entire TV episodes or movies, using Japanese subtitles (and a dictionary, looking at the raw subtitles for ease of input) so you know what words you're pronouncing. An easier step might be to just pick a short scene in each episode you watch, maybe 5~20 seconds long, and repeat the scene until you can pronounce all words in the scene at full speed. An easier step before that, since it might be hard to rewind within full-length episodes, could be to learn the theme song for One Piece (I assume each season has separate theme songs, like with other shows). It's a lot easier to find subtitles (English, romaji, and kanji) for a theme song than for a full episode, and a song is less likely to have bits of ridiculously fast talking.

[@Wish7s]

I love your tattoos!!!!

[@NihongobyAmanda]

Thank you so much 😄

[@championfactstv8639]

I have watched 1000+ hours anime but i didn’t know anything about japanese

[@marsimplodation]

that is probably because you watch with english subtitles. People who advocate for input based learning call this passive input, which they want you to do active input, japanese only and paying attention to the language, if you do this, in addition to doing vocab and grammar, you will learn

[@josecarlosbayoncueto4689]

Great channel Amanda , I recommend for learning asian languages to get into the world of Mnemonics ( memorization techniques ) to recall the kanjis and the japanese words , techniques like memorizing by association and the memory palace techniques are amazing for japanese language , I studied 3 months of mandarin chinese and these techniques really help me ,( I had to quir mandarin due to full work )but you can find , these techniques here in yt , take care great channel and content.

[@NihongobyAmanda]

Thank you! Yes, mnemonics is something I use regularly. It has helped me remember kanji tremendously. I hope you can soon pick up mandarin again :)

[@chocklad9]

one piece is the best!

[@chocklad9]

random but your tattoos are so beautiful

[@hcm9999]

I am against using ANKI or any kind of flashcards. There are many disadvantages with flashcards: 1. They are time-consuming. It may take a long time just to write them. Then you have to read and keep repeating until you get the answers correctly. That can also take a long time. 2. They are boring, tedious, you may lose motivation. 3. They take the words out of context. It is much harder to memorize and understand them. Flashcards are completely inefficient compared to just reading. 4. The fact that you can answer all flashcards correctly doesn't mean you have learned the subject. Why not just read a book? In the same time you create and read flashcards you could just read a book. In one hour you can read several pages of a book. In the same hour how many flashcards can you write (and read)? Flashcards are much more time-consuming than just reading. Or, if you are studying something like Physics or Mathematics, you should just solve a bunch of exercises from a textbook. Most textbooks have plenty of exercises for you to practice. All you have to do is solve them. The book author already prepared all the exercises for you, you don't need to write them, unlike flashcards. If you are learning a foreign language you should read as much as possible. Reading is the best way to acquire vocabulary. You consult the dictionary for the words necessary to understand the text. Reading is much more fun, entertaining, engaging and pleasant than using flashcards. By reading you always see the words in context. In the case of JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) you should buy specific books for it. There are books on sale that specifically help you for the test, offering a bunch of exercises similar to the JLPT questions. It is a much more efficient way to study than flashcards created by someone you don't know. Even if you nailed all the ANKI flashcards, there is no way to know if the flashcards are actually related to the JLPT. Textbooks on the other hand will base their exercises on the actual questions that appear in the exam. I have been studying Swedish for 3 years now mostly by translating song lyrics. I have translated almost 500 songs. I listen to the songs while reading the lyrics, I get vocabulary and pronunciation at the same time. It is a lot of fun and pleasant, I never get bored. I don't worry about memorization, I only care about understanding the lyrics. In the beginning I was barely translating one song in one hour. Now I can translate more than 8 songs in one hour. And I never study more than one hour per day.

[@NihongobyAmanda]

Det som funkar för mig kanske inte funkar för andra. Men jag håller med att läsa är det bäst sättet att lära sig nya språk, hands down :)

[@rayford8675]

P r o m o S M 👌