So happy you're learning Japanese. It's such a fun language and I find it so meditative when studying it because it's so different and challenging. A word of advice... when in doubt, katakana it out!
@CouchPolyglot Genki for grammar. Wani Kani for Kanji. And reading for vocabulary and understanding more of the sentence structure and grammar. If you want something that's more slowly paced than genki, but still teaches you grammar and vocab, then check out Japanese from Zero. He also has a TH-cam channel where he goes through each chapter of his book for FREE. ❤
just leaving a comment to appreciate that you wrote you've been learning a language for x number of days instead of IN x number of days like other clickbait youtubers.
the only way to get good at this language is to actually practice speaking it to people or to yourself out loud in your own environment. This is because it is so different. I’ve been studying it for 8 months and the best thing for me was making japanese friends and practicing
Your skills after 30 days are great! I just started learning Japanese too, it is a very fun language. I've been using Pimsleur which is focusing primarily on speaking and I like it a lot. I'm also using WaniKani to learn kanji. I'm a native English speaker so it's not easy, as you said, but at least it's enjoyable :)
Neat that you started learning Japanese! I lived in Japan for 2 years (I have since moved back to the US), and I only really learned survival Japanese. Japanese grammar and pronunciation is pretty easy, but the writing systems are really challenging. I could recongize some Kanji, but only for things like names of cities and train stations. It's a cool language, and I kinda wish I had learned more while I was there. But I doubt that I will use much of it again! You should try Korean next. The grammar is extremely similar to Japanese, but the pronunciation is more difficult (at least for me). But the writing is exponentially easier than Japanese, due to lack of Kanji or Hanja as they call it. I've only studied Korean for about 8 months, and I think I know more of it than I do Japanese! Interesting video!
Wow, it's incredible to see your progress in just 30 days! I love how you tackled the challenges of learning Japanese, especially with the writing system and vocabulary. Your positive mindset and dedication really shine through. Keep up the great work; I can't wait to see how far you'll go!
Hello Laura. Very refreshing to see this video of your experience with Japanese. Makes me think of my experience learning Russian (which I’ve been working on for over a year - with its different alphabet, and words so different from the other languages I know) - not spending excessive time - replaying basic videos multiple times - and on certain days when it may be harder to focus, turning to Russian with Max which is pure fun to listen to. Impossible to make huge progress when working on maintaining multiple other languages - but making my Russian experience “fun” (as you are doing for Japanese) and not fixing any “set goal” makes “touching” that language in some form for limited time each day fun. So even though learning Japanese is not in my forseeable future - I enjoyed listening to your approach to a brand new and totally different language! - :)
I did not know or remember that you were learning Russian, I can relate to what you are saying cause for years it was the hardest language for me. It is amazing once you can understand interesting content in such a language. I think it will take forever to be able to do that in Japanese for me hehehe But one day at a time 😄
Nice job🌟always nice to see new Japanese learners(even if it’s just a temporary experience for you). I’ve been fluent half my life now and occasionally encounter people randomly learning on TH-cam every couple months via random recommendations lol ❤just leaving a comment to boost algorithm for you, and cheering you on! 🎉
"2 years" sounds like a lot, but if you study let's say once every two weeks, it is really "only 24 days a year". And I do think that if you study every day the learning effect is bigger. I like doing it daily, even if it is for 10 minutes and at the same time I try to take it easy and enjoy the process :)
@@CouchPolyglot it was more like once every few weeks or a week every few months. Like I said it was very inconsistent. Now a days I'm still learning Japanese a bit more consistently but still casually
Konichiwa Laura-san. Arigato 😎. (I used to watch some Japanese martial arts themed movies. Your progress is quite impressive, especially since Japanese is very different from the other languages you know)
very happy that you're learning, you always said in your podcasts you'll do it after you retire and I was always thinking "what if you don't live up to that point?"
Que bé, Laura!! Recordo posar un comentari donar-te una petita empenta perquè t'animessis amb el japonès, i és genial veure que finalment ho has fet! Personalment, crec que has vist només una superfície molt i molt petita de tot el que té per oferir el japonès. Coses com jocs de paraules, dites, kanjis i la connexió amb la seva cultura la fan una llengua molt rica. Jo vaig prendre la mateixa actitud que tu, de pendre-m'ho amb calma i anar al meu ritme. I si bé encara no puc dir gran cosa, estic content d'haver-ho fet així. Tot i això, provaré el curs que recomanes! I, finalment, és molt satisfactori aprendre una llengua tan diferent. Ara que estic aprenent Itàlia, en molt poc temps ja m'estic llegint un llibre sense gaires problemes. En japonès seria impensable. I tot i que sents que estàs progressant molt en molt poc temps, i això és genial, el poder llegir una frase en japonès i entendre-la (encara que triguis cinc minuts) és eufòric! Així que continua aprenent japonès, no te'n penediràs!😊😊
Que bonic, moltes gràcies per compartir la teva experiència, espero poder experimentar això que expliques 😊 Està bé tenir llengües que aprens que són fàcils i d'altres més complexes, així depenent del moment o de què et vingui més de gust dediques temps a una o altra
The grammar definitely is so different to European languages, just wait until you're reading a long sentence in Japanese, it's like the structure of the sentence is in reverse! But yes as you mentioned, loan words usually from English take some of the pressure off. 頑張ってください！
Interesting video, not really interested in learning Japanese but always curious to see where are the struggles to learn other languages. Hopefully, I would learn German and continue to improve my English as much as possible.
@@CouchPolyglot Claro que sí! Estic interessat, ja que he estat a Catalunya. Parlo quatre idiomes i ara estic aprenent català. És molt agradable que tinguis un podcast on ensenyis català. Buscaré el teu podcast i també miraré els teus vídeos. Moltes gràcies per compartir el teu coneixement sobre idiomes. Ets molt talentós! 🌟🎙️
Laura seems to be at a similar spoken level of Japanese as i am. Grammar and syntax are very different but not complicated. It's elegant and it has own logic that can be understood. That and peonounciation are the easy parts. The real challenge is the alien vocabulary and the overly complex writing systems. The former is a similar problem to Finnish where even loan words are often difficult to recognize but at least Finnish uses the latin alphabet so not that hard. Just have to remember all those samey looking words overfilled with vowels. 😂 But you have to learn the writing systems in Japanes otherwise.... how can you read anything? This is where, if you are just doing for fun, you have to take it easy. Hiragana and Katakana I've mastered. But kanji? This is something for the very long haul.
Welcome to the Japanese learners club. It has been the most confusing language for me. Each time you are finally learning something, you find out that nobody speaks like that. You find out you must learn the same thing in many, many different ways, and each way has its own particular context. And not only this, the grammar is so confusing. "The verb goes at the end", which in English and Spanish can sound like an innocent fancy way of speaking, is nothing, nothing compared to what you will face 😂. A very fun language to learn.
My second language. Unfortunately they always teach formal. Japanese is really simple and fun when you speak informal. Formal: watashi wa piza wo tabemashita. Informal: piza tabeta! :)
If you are already passed this stage, like I knew all the words and phrases you mentioned, but I still feel like a beginner, would you still recommend starting the beginner course?
Both Japanese grammar and pronunciation are easier than English. The real challenge is kanji. Even though it is slow, the best way is to write them down on paper. There are online kanji dictionaries that teach you the stroke order of each kanji. Don't try to memorize the pronunciation of each kanji. The pronunciation of kanjis may change depending on the word that the kanji is part of. So it is much better to memorize the word instead of the kanji.
I just made sure to learn a bit every day, the good days it was 30-45 minutes, but most days probably only 15 minutes. I did not want to make it too crazy (like one hour a day), cause it is hard to find so much time every day. But I guess I could have learned more if I had had a more strict schedule. Are you learning Japanese? :)
@@CouchPolyglot I would love to be able to learn a few languages, if only at a basic level. Thank you. I do follow Oriental Pearl as I find it fascinating that she has a good grasp of Asian languages, and try to glean how she learns any language, like you 👍🏾🙏🏾🇬🇧
in my case I have just chosen Japanese a couple of years ago because I watch anime, I cannot scape from it, so it doesn't matter how much I wanted to I cannot give up on Japanese, I literally cannot lol
Japonés es un idioma muy difícil de aprender en un mes deberia haber agregado “anki” al metodo de eatudio. Que paso con el alemán necesitoa tips para mejorar la pronunciation 😢 saludos
tengo que probar anki aunque el concepto no me convence... ¿Ya has visto todos mis vídeos enseñando alemán? La verdad es que los últimos que he publicado no han tenido mucho éxito... pensaba que ya a nadie le interesa este tema. Aquí te dejo con la lista de reproducción: th-cam.com/video/QI-aTzyR5Lw/w-d-xo.html
@@CouchPolyglot I’ve only been studying for about a year… used various texts and Italki tutors… I tried Genki, Minna No Nihongo… Now I am using Tobira Beginner Japanese. So far, I like Tobira the best… Best, John
hehehe I did not learn it IN 30 days, but FOR 30 days ;) I am a super beginner, obviously! But I am sure with the right strategy, you could learn it in 30 seconds :)
So happy you're learning Japanese. It's such a fun language and I find it so meditative when studying it because it's so different and challenging.
A word of advice... when in doubt, katakana it out!
Thanks a lot, Emma! Are there any resources you would recommend? 👀😁
@CouchPolyglot Genki for grammar. Wani Kani for Kanji. And reading for vocabulary and understanding more of the sentence structure and grammar. If you want something that's more slowly paced than genki, but still teaches you grammar and vocab, then check out Japanese from Zero. He also has a TH-cam channel where he goes through each chapter of his book for FREE. ❤
Amazing, thanks a lot 😊👍
just leaving a comment to appreciate that you wrote you've been learning a language for x number of days instead of IN x number of days like other clickbait youtubers.
hehe thanks! Yeah, it would be really absurd and clickbaity to write that :D
Good point.
You are absolutely right! It's so refreshing to see that.
the only way to get good at this language is to actually practice speaking it to people or to yourself out loud in your own environment. This is because it is so different. I’ve been studying it for 8 months and the best thing for me was making japanese friends and practicing
Thanks a lot for your tip 👍😄
Excelente!! Gracias por compartir tu experiencia genera más motivación para empezar con el japonés. 🦾😂
Genial, me alegro :)
Your skills after 30 days are great! I just started learning Japanese too, it is a very fun language. I've been using Pimsleur which is focusing primarily on speaking and I like it a lot. I'm also using WaniKani to learn kanji. I'm a native English speaker so it's not easy, as you said, but at least it's enjoyable :)
Thanks a lot for sharing those resources, I will check them out 😊
Have fun learning Japanese 😄
@@CouchPolyglot Hopefully you find them useful! And thanks, you too :)
Me encanta tu actitud y tu sinceridad compartiendo tu proceso. ¡Saludos!
Muchas gracias :)
Neat that you started learning Japanese! I lived in Japan for 2 years (I have since moved back to the US), and I only really learned survival Japanese. Japanese grammar and pronunciation is pretty easy, but the writing systems are really challenging. I could recongize some Kanji, but only for things like names of cities and train stations. It's a cool language, and I kinda wish I had learned more while I was there. But I doubt that I will use much of it again!
You should try Korean next. The grammar is extremely similar to Japanese, but the pronunciation is more difficult (at least for me). But the writing is exponentially easier than Japanese, due to lack of Kanji or Hanja as they call it. I've only studied Korean for about 8 months, and I think I know more of it than I do Japanese!
Interesting video!
Thanks a lot for sharing your experience 😊
Well, I will stick to Japanese first, but I am taking it easy, so I will learn quite slowly 🦥
Wow, it's incredible to see your progress in just 30 days! I love how you tackled the challenges of learning Japanese, especially with the writing system and vocabulary. Your positive mindset and dedication really shine through. Keep up the great work; I can't wait to see how far you'll go!
Arigato 😊
Hello Laura. Very refreshing to see this video of your experience with Japanese. Makes me think of my experience learning Russian (which I’ve been working on for over a year - with its different alphabet, and words so different from the other languages I know) - not spending excessive time - replaying basic videos multiple times - and on certain days when it may be harder to focus, turning to Russian with Max which is pure fun to listen to. Impossible to make huge progress when working on maintaining multiple other languages - but making my Russian experience “fun” (as you are doing for Japanese) and not fixing any “set goal” makes “touching” that language in some form for limited time each day fun. So even though learning Japanese is not in my forseeable future - I enjoyed listening to your approach to a brand new and totally different language! - :)
I did not know or remember that you were learning Russian, I can relate to what you are saying cause for years it was the hardest language for me. It is amazing once you can understand interesting content in such a language. I think it will take forever to be able to do that in Japanese for me hehehe
But one day at a time 😄
Nice job🌟always nice to see new Japanese learners(even if it’s just a temporary experience for you). I’ve been fluent half my life now and occasionally encounter people randomly learning on TH-cam every couple months via random recommendations lol ❤just leaving a comment to boost algorithm for you, and cheering you on! 🎉
Ooooh thanks a lot 🥰
you did so well, better than what I've leant for the past 2 years of inconstant studying
"2 years" sounds like a lot, but if you study let's say once every two weeks, it is really "only 24 days a year". And I do think that if you study every day the learning effect is bigger. I like doing it daily, even if it is for 10 minutes and at the same time I try to take it easy and enjoy the process :)
@@CouchPolyglot it was more like once every few weeks or a week every few months. Like I said it was very inconsistent. Now a days I'm still learning Japanese a bit more consistently but still casually
Ciao, Laura! Sono giá stanco solo di pensare a imparare il giapponese. 🙂
hehe è molto divertente ma ci vuole tanta pazienza :D
Parecchio tempo ci vuole anche... però credo che vale la pena.
Konichiwa Laura-san. Arigato 😎. (I used to watch some Japanese martial arts themed movies. Your progress is quite impressive, especially since Japanese is very different from the other languages you know)
arigatogozaimas, Ben! :)
It is a fun and cool language! But quite different indeed :O
very happy that you're learning, you always said in your podcasts you'll do it after you retire and I was always thinking "what if you don't live up to that point?"
Hahaha you are right, the present moment is actually the only "sure" thing there is
Que bé, Laura!! Recordo posar un comentari donar-te una petita empenta perquè t'animessis amb el japonès, i és genial veure que finalment ho has fet!
Personalment, crec que has vist només una superfície molt i molt petita de tot el que té per oferir el japonès. Coses com jocs de paraules, dites, kanjis i la connexió amb la seva cultura la fan una llengua molt rica. Jo vaig prendre la mateixa actitud que tu, de pendre-m'ho amb calma i anar al meu ritme. I si bé encara no puc dir gran cosa, estic content d'haver-ho fet així. Tot i això, provaré el curs que recomanes!
I, finalment, és molt satisfactori aprendre una llengua tan diferent. Ara que estic aprenent Itàlia, en molt poc temps ja m'estic llegint un llibre sense gaires problemes. En japonès seria impensable. I tot i que sents que estàs progressant molt en molt poc temps, i això és genial, el poder llegir una frase en japonès i entendre-la (encara que triguis cinc minuts) és eufòric!
Així que continua aprenent japonès, no te'n penediràs!😊😊
Que bonic, moltes gràcies per compartir la teva experiència, espero poder experimentar això que expliques 😊
Està bé tenir llengües que aprens que són fàcils i d'altres més complexes, així depenent del moment o de què et vingui més de gust dediques temps a una o altra
Tu nombre seria probablemente ラウラ(raura), good video im learning japanese now so i hope you continue your journey and have fun.
Muchas gracias 😊
The grammar definitely is so different to European languages, just wait until you're reading a long sentence in Japanese, it's like the structure of the sentence is in reverse!
But yes as you mentioned, loan words usually from English take some of the pressure off.
頑張ってください！
It does feel backwards, but that makes it quite magical 😁
I will take my time and enjoy the process, hopefully one day I will be able to speak it 😊
Interesting video, not really interested in learning Japanese but always curious to see where are the struggles to learn other languages. Hopefully, I would learn German and continue to improve my English as much as possible.
I am glad you liked it and wishing you the best with your language learning goals 😌
Hola, salutacions des de Chicago. M’agrada quan ensenyen català. Sóc del Brasil però visc a Chicago, EUA.
Que interessant!! Per si t'interessa, també tinc un podcast en català :)
Es diu "Learn Catalan with Couch Polyglot" i ja hi ha més de 100 episodis :D
@@CouchPolyglot Claro que sí! Estic interessat, ja que he estat a Catalunya. Parlo quatre idiomes i ara estic aprenent català. És molt agradable que tinguis un podcast on ensenyis català. Buscaré el teu podcast i també miraré els teus vídeos. Moltes gràcies per compartir el teu coneixement sobre idiomes. Ets molt talentós! 🌟🎙️
Laura seems to be at a similar spoken level of Japanese as i am.
Grammar and syntax are very different but not complicated. It's elegant and it has own logic that can be understood. That and peonounciation are the easy parts.
The real challenge is the alien vocabulary and the overly complex writing systems. The former is a similar problem to Finnish where even loan words are often difficult to recognize but at least Finnish uses the latin alphabet so not that hard. Just have to remember all those samey looking words overfilled with vowels. 😂
But you have to learn the writing systems in Japanes otherwise.... how can you read anything? This is where, if you are just doing for fun, you have to take it easy. Hiragana and Katakana I've mastered. But kanji? This is something for the very long haul.
Welcome to the Japanese learners club. It has been the most confusing language for me. Each time you are finally learning something, you find out that nobody speaks like that. You find out you must learn the same thing in many, many different ways, and each way has its own particular context. And not only this, the grammar is so confusing. "The verb goes at the end", which in English and Spanish can sound like an innocent fancy way of speaking, is nothing, nothing compared to what you will face 😂.
A very fun language to learn.
Sounds interesting and a bit scary 🙈
But I am taking it one day at a time and enjoying the process 😄
Let's see how far I can get 😊
My second language. Unfortunately they always teach formal. Japanese is really simple and fun when you speak informal. Formal: watashi wa piza wo tabemashita. Informal: piza tabeta! :)
also your name is romaji: Raura katakana: ラウラ hiragana: らうら I'll make up your kanji for fun: 羅浦
So interesting, I guess the formal one is so not to offend anyone 🙈
If you are already passed this stage, like I knew all the words and phrases you mentioned, but I still feel like a beginner, would you still recommend starting the beginner course?
Yeah, the beginner course might be even better if you know some basics already actually.
Hope you will like it and find it as useful as I did 🙂
I like the title. "I learned Japanese FOR (instead of IN) 30 days" That's the way to do it.
thanks a lot :)
Both Japanese grammar and pronunciation are easier than English.
The real challenge is kanji.
Even though it is slow, the best way is to write them down on paper.
There are online kanji dictionaries that teach you the stroke order of each kanji.
Don't try to memorize the pronunciation of each kanji.
The pronunciation of kanjis may change depending on the word that the kanji is part of.
So it is much better to memorize the word instead of the kanji.
Sounds difficult but also interesting 👀
🤔 ese metodo suena a Assimil, pero como sea si funciona almenos para lenguas romances porque de los otros tienes que aprender el alfabeto 😁
En el caso de Story Learning, al principio del curso de japonés tienes la versión escrita en romaji y poco a poco se va introduciendo Hiragana :)
Hi, how many hours constitute a "day"? Thank you 👍🏾🇬🇧
I just made sure to learn a bit every day, the good days it was 30-45 minutes, but most days probably only 15 minutes. I did not want to make it too crazy (like one hour a day), cause it is hard to find so much time every day. But I guess I could have learned more if I had had a more strict schedule. Are you learning Japanese? :)
@@CouchPolyglot I would love to be able to learn a few languages, if only at a basic level. Thank you. I do follow Oriental Pearl as I find it fascinating that she has a good grasp of Asian languages, and try to glean how she learns any language, like you 👍🏾🙏🏾🇬🇧
How can I purchase story learning for Belgium ?
in my case I have just chosen Japanese a couple of years ago because I watch anime, I cannot scape from it, so it doesn't matter how much I wanted to I cannot give up on Japanese, I literally cannot lol
But have you learned it with anime? Did you watch so much that it somehow clicked at some point? Or what are you using to learn it?
Salut i amunt el cor
Gràcies 😊
Japonés es un idioma muy difícil de aprender en un mes deberia haber agregado “anki” al metodo de eatudio.
Que paso con el alemán necesitoa tips para mejorar la pronunciation 😢 saludos
tengo que probar anki aunque el concepto no me convence... ¿Ya has visto todos mis vídeos enseñando alemán? La verdad es que los últimos que he publicado no han tenido mucho éxito... pensaba que ya a nadie le interesa este tema. Aquí te dejo con la lista de reproducción:
th-cam.com/video/QI-aTzyR5Lw/w-d-xo.html
Gosta de animes ?
Síiii
@@CouchPolyglot dificil mencionar o japonês sem mencionar os animes.
Try a good textbook..
do you have any recommendation? :)
@@CouchPolyglot I’ve only been studying for about a year… used various texts and Italki tutors… I tried Genki, Minna No Nihongo… Now I am using Tobira Beginner Japanese. So far, I like Tobira the best… Best, John
@@johnnacke4134 thanks a lot, John :)
30 days? My cousin learnt Japanese in just 30 minutes
hehehe I did not learn it IN 30 days, but FOR 30 days ;)
I am a super beginner, obviously!
But I am sure with the right strategy, you could learn it in 30 seconds :)
prepare to surrender lol
hehehe
Me tienen chato estos "poliglotas"....el ego es lo mas grande que tienen.....Dios mio...
solo comparto mi experiencia, pero si no te interesa nadie te obliga a verlo :)
@@CouchPolyglot Akrivos.