Japanese journey - 1 

Thanks for your comment! Welcome to bootcamp soldier! 🪖🫡 Don't give up and give your best! 一緒に頑張りましょう。💪🏻

Thanks for your comment and support! I am glad you enjoyed the process and that you started your own journey! If you have any questions please let me know. Good luck and don't give up! 一緒に頑張りましょう。💪🏻

Thanks for your comment! Welcome aboard soldier. Here's a guide if you're new to learning Japanese that will cover a lot of aspects: learnjapanese.moe/ For learning hiragana and katakana: www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/ www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/ Practice hiragana and katakana: kana-quiz.tofugu.com/ いっしょにがんばりましょう。💪🏻

Thanks for your comment and wishes, I also wish you good luck to your and your gf! Later this year I will move to Japan and live together with a Japanese person. They speak English and we can communicate easily in English. My job doesn't involve communicating in Japanese and I could get by without it. The main reasons I am learning is because I will live there and I'd like to be able to make friends and communicate efficiently with everyone. Another reason is that a lot of the hobbies I have involve the Japanese language and a lot of things are still waiting to be discovered, but their locked behind the language barrier. Once I am done with these decks I will mine my own cards via immersive content that I will enjoy and I won't really have a set amount of cards to do, just enjoying the process. I think learning Japanese is a marathon and should be treated as such, avoiding getting burned out, but I am just giving it a running start for a while and then slow down the pace. Of course it will also give me more job opportunities for the future. I was on a trip last year for about a month and I wish I could have spoken more Japanese, then I would have been able to communicate and make more memories.

This really made me think. I can't answer what I want from japanese, I really don't know why I am learning. I told myself I probably wouldn't live in japan because their work culture seems too toxic for me, but I still haven't stopped trying to learn the language. I kinda did, but I always come back to it at some point. I really don't know why.

Thanks for your comment and explanation/examples! I will eventually check CureDolly's video about this topic and hopefully learn more about transitive and intrasitive verbs and better understand them.

Thanks for your comment! Obrigado por seu comentário! I will try my best and I wish you good luck as well! Vou tentar o meu melhor e desejo-lhe boa sorte também! 一緒に頑張りましょう。💪🏻

Thanks man! こちらこそ頑張ってください。

こちらこそコメントにありがとうございます。❤️

Thanks for your comment. I've added all the decks in the description of the video so you should be able to find them there. All my newer videos contain the links, but I didn't have it for this first one. If you have any questions feel free to ask. 一緒に頑張りましょう。💪

Thanks for your comment and question! If you check one of the recent videos you will see how I do this process better. The basic idea of me using Anki is this: 1. Look at the front of the card with Japanese word/text etc. 2. Try to read the sentence / word in Japanese and say the meaning of the word in English. 3. Show the back of the card and check if it's the same. 4. If you are correct then press the "Good" button and if you are not press "Again". Some of the decks I have focus on vocubalary, one is for kanji and one is kinda for listening/grammar. Extra one is just to practice katakana whenever I feel like. The most important with Anki is to do it every day!

Thank you for your comment! The name of this app is Anki. It's free on everything except iPhone. Here is the link for it: apps.ankiweb.net/ If you need any of the Japanese decks that I am using let me know. I would recommend watching a video on RU-vid about it (Anki) to learn more.

@@littlepebble thanks so much for your reply man! If you can send me some of your decks I'd be much appreciated!

@@oangvinh1297 This is the Core 2k/6k deck: drive.google.com/file/d/1dZgKgtbWv22OtsvCPnXz1Kqz251Okm-p/view This is the Jlab's beginner course deck: ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782 TheMoeWay Tango N5 deck: drive.google.com/file/d/1pMlJvSrKQOSaiN8sPLdNDvWP31EClxDO/view

Thanks for your comment and question! To be honest, you don't really need textbooks to learn, but if you enjoy that method the one I've used is called "Japanese From Zero" by George Trombley. The cool thing about that textbook is that you have RU-vid videos for each lesson explained in more detail so you can use both the textbook and videos. George is also a really funny guy and I enjoyed watching some of his stuff. Here's the official website for the book: www.fromzero.com/ Here's George's (the author) YT channel: www.youtube.com/@japanesefromzero I haven't read in a while, but I think if you're an absolute beginner I would say to check it out. There are other textbooks like Genki that everyone uses, but it has its issues. Good luck and don't give up!

Thanks for your comment and support! 頑張りましょう。

Thanks for your comment! I think it's a good book for beginners. I kinda don't like the hiragana/romaji situation where it's progressively adding and mixing romaji and hiragana, but other than that it's good. I enjoy the video series more than the book and I recommend it. The gentleman that made the book and YT channel is really funny!

Thanks for your comment! I uploaded the 2 files you requested that I am using as correct/wrong sounds. Download link: mega.nz/file/sw5kXbBA#xfed9IeN_EEZBr2qxWvYujmbwnlLPdE8Lss5M_3BJRk In this you will find a "read me.txt" file, please open and read it and follow the directions I wrote to install these correctly. This will also contain the link to download the addon. This is from the readme.txt: __________________________ Hello, this is 小石! These are the answer sounds for again and good. Follow these steps to install correctly: 1. Download addon from here: ankiweb.net/shared/info/1167194350 2. After you install this addon you need to find the folder where the addon is installed. It should be somewhere here: \AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1167194350\user_files\ 3. Put the "again.wav" in the "again" folder \AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1167194350\user_files\again\ 4. Put the "good.wav" in the "good" folder \AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1167194350\user_files\good\ __________________________

Many thanks for your help

Thanks for your comment! On the first of next month I will post the Japanese journey and in that episode I will show my settings, addons, stats and everything else. So come back and check that out on 01/09.

@@littlepebble thanks 😭

@@moykun5643 Not sure if you're still interested, but here are the 2 videos in which I show the settings: Vid 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uaAa44C7EDI.html Vid 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jV1Jk25IGqg.html In the 2nd video you can see the deck settings.

@@littlepebble i still am tyvm brother 🫂🫂🫂

Hello! Thanks for your comment! Which deck are you talking about? Did you download one of the decks from the video description?

@@littlepebble the core 2k/6k optimized deck (by jouzuJuls), yes i've downladed, thanks for help

@@CitroMake Check this forum post with someone having similar issues with audio getting clipped at the end: forums.ankiweb.net/t/audio-tracks-get-clipped-at-the-end/10289 This is from that site: Right-click the speaker icon on your taskbar. Left-click ‘sounds’. Navigate to the ‘playback’ tab. Select your active audio device (the one with the green checkmark) Click ‘properties’. Move to the ‘advanced tab’. Uncheck the ‘enable audio enhancements’ box near the bottom of the window. Click ‘apply’.

@@littlepebble thanks for helping, i have resolved the problem