Month 4 Recap Learning Japanese Journey

[@Meepatronic]

Nice work! I started learning about 2 years ago now, and all I can say is dedication is key! I recommend immersing yourself in lots of Japanese media if you don't already, it helped me so much to understand the flow and structure of the language. As for Kanji, it's definitely not going to be easy, but once you start learning them it only becomes easier since they follow many similar patterns. I bet tracking your progress like this is going to be very helpful for you later, so good job keeping up with it!

[@01ahsan]

Where do i start learning kanji?

[@Meepatronic]

@@01ahsan I recommend looking into Japanese Anki decks, they're really good at helping you remember all the commonly used Kanji found in Japanese words. One app (For IOS only as far as I know) that really helped me learn was Kanji!. They give you a few lessons for free and unfortunately you'll have to pay for the rest, but I think the amount of money I spent was well worth it. It helped me to remember stroke order and some common readings for most N5 level Kanji. If you're still unsure on how Kanji work though, I would recommend watching some KZbin videos explaining their usage since jumping right into it can make things confusing. I also keep physical (as well as digital) notes on Kanji so that helps a lot too. One awesome tip I learned is to study Kanji not just by themselves, but by the words they're used in and sentences you'll find them in. Personally I think that helped make learning a lot more efficient, as you can learn both Kanji and new words at the same time.

[@Thorwind]

@@01ahsan kaishi 1.5k and rrtk 450 anki decks. do how many cards you feel comfortable with but I reccomend atleast 10 a day

[@wbgjp]

i plan to do that i just want to learn all the japanese character first that i do live streams for now.

[@wbgjp]

i started on duolingo but probly not the best place to learn kanji

[@wweennooww]

i just barely started learning japanese, this is a sign 😭good job!

[@keviherr]

More like youtube's algorithm lol. Anyways, have fun during the journey

[@Gamercat01]

It's wonderful to see that you're progressing. If you don't mind my saying, personally I'd recommend studying the particles more so that you understand better what's really going on in terms of how sentences work when you use を. So with a simple sentence like ほんをよみました, that means something like I read the book. So it isn't like hon...(then we pause)oyomishashita but something more like that one understands that the object that was read is (a)book. Hopefully that helps and I didn't butcher explaining something. I'm so thrilled that another person is learning Japanese and didn't quit in the first month. :) がんばって！

[@wbgjp]

it my 3rd attempt at learning japanese so i start a yt channel so that i dont quit. thanks for the advice

[@felixherz2864]

Some pronounciation tipps: 1.「ひ」(hi) is pronounced like the 'h' in "hue"; this also goes for the one in「ひゃ」,「ひゅ」and「ひょ」 2. 'i' and 'u' vowels are often devoiced when between unvoiced consonants (k, s, t, h, p) or at the end of a word after an unvoiced consonants; e. g. "desu" is usually pronounced more like "dess", "hyaku" more like "hyak" and "sukoshi" more like "skosh". 3. Each syllable (basically each large hiragana) is pronounced for an equal amount of time; terms to further look into this are "mora" and "stress-accent" vs "pitch-accent" languages (English is stress-accent, Japanese is pitch-accent) I would recommend listening to some native material, even if you don't feel like you understand anything yet, it will still help with pronounciation. Have fun learning :)

[@wbgjp]

I will try to listen to more japanese tho i will look up and learn about devoiced characters

[@ZeriAi]

That's good progress Keep at it!

[@ZeriAi]

The particle 「を」 is pronounced as 「お」but uses a different character In your sentence 「すし　お　食べます」, you used the wrong character The correct character is 「すし　を　食べます」 If you keep at it, your efforts will be rewarded so don't give up!

[@wbgjp]

thanks i just found the character today so i will hopefull use the right one from now on

[@ZeriAi]

@@wbgjp (。・ω・。)

[@radarada2069]

がんばれ！！

[@ireadsteiner7729]

This series is pretty cool. I just started learning Japanese 2 days ago. Maybe I should track my progression like this.

[@wbgjp]

it help in my opinion the amount of people that help me are insane. im greatful that they take the time to help me

[@dexoel]

you should check out migaku

[@kkmc-y9f]

You wrote futatsu as ふあつ when it should be ふたつ. And just heads up ふたつ and ひとつ is used for things and it's not used for numbers. (same goes for the other numbers you mentioned)

[@wbgjp]

Thanks i dont notice i mess up

[@SUPERFUTUREKlD]

I've also started 2 months ago. I recognize the duolingo vocab ha ha. My recommendations if you dont already know: use Anki, make a deck with your own learned vocabs and also try the Kaishi 1.5k deck, its very helpful to broaden your vocabulary outside of duolingo, they use simple sentences and useful beginner vocabulary. Wanikani is another great source to start learning Kanji, you shoudl start learining to read Kanji as early as possible, as they get used for almost every noun, verb and adjective, but they make it funny and easy to remember them. And the last recommendation, unless you are only interested in reading, try to pay attention to the correct pronunciation to avoid memorizing it wrong, this will help later on when you want to start speaking. But anyways, keep it up! がんばって ᕦ(ò‿óˇ)ᕤ

[@wbgjp]

i will try to keep that in mind but i might forget. thanks for the help