Transition to Japanese-Only Dictionaries: A Guide

[@YamatoTre]

Great video, I'm almost at that step, so this is very appreciated

[@WSwan]

Amazing video, homie. ありがとうございます。

[@Tamagotochannel]

こちらこそありがとうございます！

[@jeffcliv]

Can you add a link for the dictionary you use? Thanks

[@ciro356]

I think it is important to highlight that patience is key considering that it is classified as an isolated language, that is without closely related languages existing. My first language is a Romance languagel and I studied English (obviously) and some French at school, and the commonality of vocabulary and structure (even English does actually work a lot like a Romance language despite being Germanic: it's still Indo European!) certainly made teaching by our teachers much easier. However, with Japanese, which I began self studying this summer, there is no "pre existing map" to fall back to, so I essentially have to create a functional duplicate of my Indo-European brain but in Japanese. Ps. Jisho is absolutely a great website, I use it all the time. What is the name of the "Jp-Jp" dictionary shown in the video? "コトバノバンク?

[@Tamagotochannel]

I agree, patience is key! Which is why I think it should be attempted after one reaches intermediate or at least advanced beginner😃. For me, it's the same, as as native speaker of a Romance language, regarding English. For Japanese I struggled the same way you mentioned, in part because I tried to go all Japanese only too early. But as I got better , in the end it was only when I tried to think of Japanese only in Japanese terms that I felt I could understand how to think in Japanese Ah, years ago I don't remember every seeing jisho.org, not sure if it was already around or it looked differently. Sorry, the one I used is コトバンク, it's actually a summary of dictionaries , and I particularly like their app, which is my primary source when searching vocab I don't know :)

[@ciro356]

@Tamagotochannel I have to say that I have been using the method of "interacting with a Japanese text" to gradually understand what each word means and to this point appears to be very effective. It really helps to learn the language by interacting with texts about topics that I like.