No way you based motherfocker, you have that same handwriting deck as me lmao. I've finished it now and am just retaining the writing now. I'm working towards menken lvl 1 eventually, currently nowhere near but this deck has been a really important foundation. Kanji's always been fun though, it's really cool imo.
Wow your Japanese speaking is very good you even got that Japanese accent as well, like that impresses! By the way how many years have you been studying it for? 😮😃
Hey! I'm Victor Brzeziński, from Brazil. I love how you are so eager to learn Japanese you prefer more active approaches. Just like Naruto's "No Boy no Cry" song - "nanimo sezu, suwatte waratteru aitsura mitai ni naritakunainda", that kind of energy! I consider listening to podcasts also to be an active approach, because you have so fewer clues - no image, no body language - that your imagination must work a lot. Also, about kanji, I remember when I first started learning Japanese: I would create a new folder on my PC each time I came accross a new kanji, for meaning, pronounciation, stroke order... I realized, by the 150th or so, that was not the most efficient method, but that for sure was fun. I haven't had a chance to write since the pandemic started, unfortunately. :( Tomek, what kind of physical material you use the most for handdrawing? And how you choose what to write? I mean, you learn a single kanji per time and move on, or maybe you make up phrases with the ones you already know, or maybe you even write quotes from actual Japanese texts? Anyways, congrats for your success learning Japanese! 🎉🎉 Thank you for the awesome video! It really inspires us to keep learning and improving
yoo thanks for the comment! ive made a video about kanji and itll be uploaded soon but basically i use an anki deck made for writing and write on a graphic tablet or sometimes just random scribbles on paper with a pen
any podcast recommendations? and i've been struggling on learning kanji for so long. it judt never sticks with me no matter how many flashcards i try to do. any advice on that?
I listen to さくら通信 while I’m doing something else. It’s on RU-vid and Spotify. They don’t seem to post very frequently anymore, but there’s still over 200 episodes available
I feel like the "wasted time" is part of the studying journey. You cant perfectly learn without it, since everyone i see making these videos says they wasted time, and even I wasted alot. But without those wasted times i wouldnt be learning effectively rn.
thats the point of the video - imagine how much time youd waste if you knew absolutely nothing about language acquisition and had to figure everything out yourself
I started by learning around 1.5k common words, some grammar point and jumped right into immersion. Started with VNs for a few days and then jumped into slice-of-life anime instead. Slice-of-life anime was sooooo easy to understand and immediately made my understanding go from like 40% to 95%. I don't share the same experience as you at all. Slice-of-life anime is extremely lightweight. I think everyone should try slice-of-life or harder to begin with and if they're a slow learner they can backtrack to some action anime.
I'm a Japanese student living in Germany. Yesterday I was in a supermarket high on caffeine trying to make it to an appointment. The lady in front of me noticed my anxiety, and kindly offered her place as I was just buying one item. Then I said "Danke schön, ich bin beschafftigt" (Thank you, I'm busy) Then she corrected me "Dass nennt man "eile", zum beispiel sagt man "Ich bin eile"" (That's called eile (more appropriate word for busy), and you can say for example "I'm busy") That was super wholesome. I quickly got out of the supermarket and made it to the appointment. Turns out, there's nothing scary about making mistakes, and people often correct you very kindly.
yeah ive been trying to focus on that but i just keep forgetting every time i click record lol do you have any tips? i reckon just a better mix would do wonders
thank u for recommending Renshuu, I had a really bad experience with duolingo and kinda totally abandoned using my phone for any kind of japanese learning apart from google translate
tbh, about speaking practice and converssation, I found VR chat absolutely amazing for that, there is sometime group of people talking to each others and I can stay around them and listen and try to understand while I can use my phone to translate words I dont understand but I could nyalso directly interact, also, people having vr have a Lot of interactions like irl and not just speaking which helps a lot, I especially love people that either draw or kinda show with their hands what they are speaking about tbh I wish I had vrchat back when I was learning english, going from comprehension to talking was really brutal for me, a lot harder than it was for dutch
@@Sandra_3784 duolingo jest slabe pod kazdym wzgledem imo jak juz chcesz aplikacje to polecam renshuu a hiragany najlepiej nauczyc sie po prostu piszac w kolko
These 3 tools helped me to have fun learning Japanese: 1. The Kana app - it was fun to learn the Kana characters with it 2. A book on Amazon called 'your first 840 words in japanese'. With this I was able to teach myself the most important Japanese words in 21 weeks and it was fun. 3. A Japanese teacher who you can talk to and who gives you exercises.
