Learn Japanese with TV on Lingopie here today: learn.lingopie.com/lindiepie Hey guys! If you're not in the mood to watch a video, you can always read my blog post about this video here ;) wink wink please check out my website i put so much work into it please thank you love you 🥺💕💕💕 lindiebotes.com/2024/11/19/start-speaking-japanese-in-3-months-a-simple-beginners-guide/
For anyone interested, here's the basics of my routine that worked for me. Some of this stuff won't be useful until years down the road, but it might help some that have been studying for a while already. Personally, I looked at the language in 6 parts. My passive and active words, my passive and active grammar knowledge, pronunciation, and cultural knowledge. I would watch TH-cam and TV or later (once I could read a few hundred kanji) read manga and novels to find words and grammar I didn't know yet, add them to Anki as an entire sentence to learn the words and/or grammar in context. For grammar specifically, I would try to find sentences I knew the words in to make sure I really understood the sentence. After feeling like I had cemented a group of new words into my passive recall, I would start using them actively by writing original sentences in short stories and recording short videos of me trying to tell a short story unscripted using as many of the words as I could. I would also hire an italki tutor about once a week to correct any errors I made in my output practice and to practice having a real conversation with a native speaker. The main thing to remember is that our passive knowledge of language will always be bigger than our active knowledge so it's sometimes worth it to spend some extra time not learning anything new for a while and just practicing the stuff you've already learned to increase you're knowledge of what you can output. Once my output level felt pretty solid, I started to interact with just random strangers online in Discord channels and online chat rooms like VR chat to make some Japanese friends and really test my Japanese abilities. I learned a lot of cultural lessons from these interactions as well. That's pretty much the routine I followed for a few years to get fairly fluent in the language, enough to pass N1. I spent about 4 hours of studying each day, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening, and some casual passive listening throughout the day later on when I could understand casual spoken Japanese without subtitles. But, like she mentioned in the video, adjust to your schedule. I'm just obsessive about learning things so most people won't want to spend like 6+ hours a day like I did learning a language. As I improved to a more advanced learner, I had to make sure to seek out material specifically to be difficult like Japanese college textbooks to learn words for technical terms for literary vocabulary, math, and science, as well as their history. I also made an Anki deck with famous Japanese people, and another for cities, regions, and prefectures in Japan. That really helped as well because the kanji for Japanese names, especially cities, are not always pronounced according to the onyomi or kunyomi. The only thing still I'm pretty bad at is writing Japanese kanji by hand because I didn't really do that at all in my learning routine. So, for those inclined, you can learn that as well if you think you'll need to do that.
Thats similar for what i did with spanish and I made huge progress in the beginning doing that, now that im back to studying japanese my schedule is different so im trying to find what works for the schedule i currently have
Do it for Chinese, Korean and other languages please. I will be working in a remote area for 9 months so gotta spend on something useful and take the proficiency test after 9 months.
For me writing Hiragana and Katakana over and over again did not work at all. My ADHD brain found it soooo boring. I right away startet reading and listening at the same time. So I had a text and listened to the audio files at the same time. Very slowly at the beginning and then faster. I could remember the Kana so much better and faster in context. For learning I used the From Zero books plus some Langenscheidt and Pons books (I am from Germany). BUT I am really glad you recommend a whole month for learning the Kana. I watched so many videos about starting with Japanese and got really frustrated when I heard I could learn all Kana within a week and failed badly. I also startet listening to music right from the beginning. I could not understand a single word, but got a feeling for the pitch accent and the pronounciation. After learning some basic Japanese through reading and listening I startet watching vlogs on TH-cam with subtitles (in English, German and Japanese). That was around the middle of the 2nd month. I started speaking by mimicing in the first month and speakind freely in my third month learning Japanese. Same with writing. I found a tandem partner in my fourth month. We meet at least once a week online. Because she is in Fukuoka and I am in Germany. Sometimes our daily scedules just don't go together. Now I am in month 6 and learning with Genki and Mina No Nihongo mainly but use other books as well. I watch Anime on Amazon (I don't have Netflix) and on TH-cam. I work full time and am I day carer for my dad. I have limited time but I always have at least an hour per day. I think that's possible for everyone. Just think about all the wasted time we watch tv or pointless videos on Instagram, TH-cam and co. Oh... by the way... I am in my mid fourties. Learning is harder and slower than it was in m twenties. Don't give up or even avoid starting. Learning something new is challenging for eveybody and perhaps you just need a little longer. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 Sunny greetings Anni
As someone going through graduate school I try to study a little bit every day, even if it's just through Duolingo to keep myself from forgetting words or sentences structure. I also watch programs in the language to keep my hearing active. Progress is slow, but I'm glad to keep a consistency at least during these busy times. Thank you for your tips, Lindie, will try to apply.
Wow, I literally just started learning Korean after not being able to decide between Korean and Japanese... luckily I'm sure this can easily be applied to Korean as well!
It's a hell learning Japanese in the beginning, but after a while become so easy. I'm studying Japanese for more than 4 years now and I will carry the study of Japanese with me until the end.
Love this! I actually use Lingopoie for Brazilian Portuguese! Right now I’m studying hiragana and katakana. I’m also learning words too. I got my anki deck ready too!
This was such a fun video! I love that!!! I learnt Japanese to JLPT5 level 10 years ago, and then abandoned it. This was a fun way to have a ‘guide to’ language video, do more for other languages and progression to more advanced levels. Would love for you to show websites and books that you recommend using. 😊
@Lindie Botes I love Japan and about a month ago I said to myself try learning the language so I installed duo lingo on my tablet. I found it frustrating due to the repetition for simple words and phrases BUT it made me realise that I'm gonna have to learn hiragana & katakana. Duolingo has romanji & hiragana but the romanji is actually useless and a waste of time. So I'm gonna print myself worksheets to practice the kana's wrt writing & pronunciation. I'm probably your parents age so it's hard for an old dog to learn new tricks, thanks for the inspiration. Ganbatte kudasai!
This video came at just the right time. I have started learning Japanese this week as I find it frustrating to work with software make for japanese speakers as a developer. I want to cut out the google translate middleman
Yes a 3 months plan - I was excited - first month … yes I am out 😅 I‘ve tried to learn Hiragana and no I don‘t think I can learn it within days - after a week I still did ka ke…. honestly? I‘ve been learning Korean for 5 years and still on going but I got furious with Hiragana. Korean has a logical stroke order - I guess that is the case in Japanese too but I cannot memorize them - for me random strokes left circle right here and there. But I watch your video till the end.
Hey, Lindie! I always enjoy your videos. I'm learning Korean and Japanese and wondered if you have ways to not mix the two languages up? So far, I make sure to learn each language on their own day (for instance, Monday study Korean and Tuesday study Japanese). Do you have any more tips? 😊
Neat video Lindie! I am trying to learn a bit of Japanese every day. It kind of dawned on me that unlike European languages where there are familiar patterns and I can go back to it Japanese requires more effort. Also, I actually do a mix between reading, writing, and speaking. I know everyone has their own style but I found one reinforces the other. And I told my cousin the same thing but with Ukrainian. I learn Ukrainian as one of my secondary languages. But if all you have is 15 minutes as long as you are mostly consistent your vocabulary will build up and be reinforced over time.
What I want is mainly to watch Japanese series and understand them without subtitles. Usually, these are not very complex romantic series. Will three months be enough for such content?
I love Japanese very much, but I always have to postpone this hobby because I have to learn English first, because Japanese resources are very few in my language and learning English before every language is absolutely essential.
Probably hellotalk for all the added features like the timeline, as well as the more intuitive design and better looking UI. Tandem is a bit clunky, BUT, I have found that people on Tandem tend to be more serious about practicing languages. However, hellotalk has better and wider variety of live voice roons.
What do you do with a tutor's correction after practising talking (such as anki corrected sentences etc)? I'm very poor at conversation and tend to have such a huge list of typed out corrections which I'm always wondering how to handle them. I always wonder what others do maybe just read out aloud? I agree to speak early - I'm not a beginner but being so shy and quiet I left speaking extremely late and I regret it! 😅
I assume with other languages it's similar? Say, with Vietnamese, instead of the Kana I start with the tones and diacritics but the rest is pretty much the same, isn't it? Though for learning the tones, a tutor would probably be recommended early on.
as you said about writing, do you think chatgpt is good for correcting journal entries or any text in a languege? or it uses a traditional and "artificial" language that is taught in school and for natives may sound weird?...
Hmm good question. I think it helps to be a bit skeptical about AI when it comes to accuracy, so I try to use it in limited capacity like asking for vocab words. You can give it a try for sure, but it's always better to have a real person help you.
I usually only teach at home and in person. Online, however, I do language coaching which is more like guidance, accountability, tips and resources for learning languages including Japanese. You can find more info at www.superpeer.com/lindiebotes!
Ngl, it seems you might have an inefficient system. I've also been studying for 4 years but passed N1 last year. My guess is you haven't been studying as consistently as you should or only spending a few minutes a day on it. If you want to make real progress you really need to be spending at least 2 hours a day on it to get to N2 in a reasonable time.
Learn Japanese with TV on Lingopie here today: learn.lingopie.com/lindiepie
Hey guys! If you're not in the mood to watch a video, you can always read my blog post about this video here ;) wink wink please check out my website i put so much work into it please thank you love you 🥺💕💕💕 lindiebotes.com/2024/11/19/start-speaking-japanese-in-3-months-a-simple-beginners-guide/
Please do it for Korean as well
It would be almost the same plan! But I can do something similar, sure :)
@@LindieBotes for Hungarian ❤, please 🥺
Awesome. Thank you
For anyone interested, here's the basics of my routine that worked for me. Some of this stuff won't be useful until years down the road, but it might help some that have been studying for a while already.
Personally, I looked at the language in 6 parts. My passive and active words, my passive and active grammar knowledge, pronunciation, and cultural knowledge. I would watch TH-cam and TV or later (once I could read a few hundred kanji) read manga and novels to find words and grammar I didn't know yet, add them to Anki as an entire sentence to learn the words and/or grammar in context. For grammar specifically, I would try to find sentences I knew the words in to make sure I really understood the sentence. After feeling like I had cemented a group of new words into my passive recall, I would start using them actively by writing original sentences in short stories and recording short videos of me trying to tell a short story unscripted using as many of the words as I could. I would also hire an italki tutor about once a week to correct any errors I made in my output practice and to practice having a real conversation with a native speaker.
The main thing to remember is that our passive knowledge of language will always be bigger than our active knowledge so it's sometimes worth it to spend some extra time not learning anything new for a while and just practicing the stuff you've already learned to increase you're knowledge of what you can output.
Once my output level felt pretty solid, I started to interact with just random strangers online in Discord channels and online chat rooms like VR chat to make some Japanese friends and really test my Japanese abilities. I learned a lot of cultural lessons from these interactions as well.
That's pretty much the routine I followed for a few years to get fairly fluent in the language, enough to pass N1. I spent about 4 hours of studying each day, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening, and some casual passive listening throughout the day later on when I could understand casual spoken Japanese without subtitles. But, like she mentioned in the video, adjust to your schedule. I'm just obsessive about learning things so most people won't want to spend like 6+ hours a day like I did learning a language.
As I improved to a more advanced learner, I had to make sure to seek out material specifically to be difficult like Japanese college textbooks to learn words for technical terms for literary vocabulary, math, and science, as well as their history. I also made an Anki deck with famous Japanese people, and another for cities, regions, and prefectures in Japan. That really helped as well because the kanji for Japanese names, especially cities, are not always pronounced according to the onyomi or kunyomi.
The only thing still I'm pretty bad at is writing Japanese kanji by hand because I didn't really do that at all in my learning routine. So, for those inclined, you can learn that as well if you think you'll need to do that.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for this advice 😊
Thats similar for what i did with spanish and I made huge progress in the beginning doing that, now that im back to studying japanese my schedule is different so im trying to find what works for the schedule i currently have
Do it for Chinese, Korean and other languages please. I will be working in a remote area for 9 months so gotta spend on something useful and take the proficiency test after 9 months.
For me writing Hiragana and Katakana over and over again did not work at all. My ADHD brain found it soooo boring. I right away startet reading and listening at the same time. So I had a text and listened to the audio files at the same time. Very slowly at the beginning and then faster. I could remember the Kana so much better and faster in context. For learning I used the From Zero books plus some Langenscheidt and Pons books (I am from Germany). BUT I am really glad you recommend a whole month for learning the Kana. I watched so many videos about starting with Japanese and got really frustrated when I heard I could learn all Kana within a week and failed badly.
I also startet listening to music right from the beginning. I could not understand a single word, but got a feeling for the pitch accent and the pronounciation. After learning some basic Japanese through reading and listening I startet watching vlogs on TH-cam with subtitles (in English, German and Japanese). That was around the middle of the 2nd month.
I started speaking by mimicing in the first month and speakind freely in my third month learning Japanese. Same with writing. I found a tandem partner in my fourth month. We meet at least once a week online. Because she is in Fukuoka and I am in Germany. Sometimes our daily scedules just don't go together.
Now I am in month 6 and learning with Genki and Mina No Nihongo mainly but use other books as well. I watch Anime on Amazon (I don't have Netflix) and on TH-cam.
I work full time and am I day carer for my dad. I have limited time but I always have at least an hour per day. I think that's possible for everyone. Just think about all the wasted time we watch tv or pointless videos on Instagram, TH-cam and co.
Oh... by the way... I am in my mid fourties. Learning is harder and slower than it was in m twenties. Don't give up or even avoid starting. Learning something new is challenging for eveybody and perhaps you just need a little longer.
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Sunny greetings
Anni
日本語の発音がとても綺麗で上手です✨ 私は日本人ですが、英語の勉強を頑張ってます😂 応援しています！I'm cheering for you☺️
As someone going through graduate school I try to study a little bit every day, even if it's just through Duolingo to keep myself from forgetting words or sentences structure. I also watch programs in the language to keep my hearing active. Progress is slow, but I'm glad to keep a consistency at least during these busy times. Thank you for your tips, Lindie, will try to apply.
This video came out at the most perfect time for me 😊 Thankyou so much for all of the advice!
So glad!
You've truly inspired me to start learning Japanese. I'm deeply fascinated by Japan and its beautiful language! 🇯🇵❤
My N4 exam is coming up and you’re one of the motivations I have for studying Japanese so thanks for helping me!
Good luck with the exam!!
@ ahh thank you!
Wow, I literally just started learning Korean after not being able to decide between Korean and Japanese... luckily I'm sure this can easily be applied to Korean as well!
You're right, many of the principles are the same! 🥳
Im learning Japanese from Lingq and the newbie japanese lessons are making so much sense.
I really like it.
Hi! Is there any way you could do this for Korean as well? It would be so appreciated
I certainly will! XX
It's a hell learning Japanese in the beginning, but after a while become so easy. I'm studying Japanese for more than 4 years now and I will carry the study of Japanese with me until the end.
This video is amazing! If you made it into a series for all the languages you've learned I would be so grateful! Ty for your amazing content Lindie!
what great timing! I was actually thinking of learning Japanese hehe
Do it do it!!!
Love this! I actually use Lingopoie for Brazilian Portuguese! Right now I’m studying hiragana and katakana. I’m also learning words too. I got my anki deck ready too!
been a fan for a long time. Love you Lindie! ❤
This was such a fun video! I love that!!! I learnt Japanese to JLPT5 level 10 years ago, and then abandoned it. This was a fun way to have a ‘guide to’ language video, do more for other languages and progression to more advanced levels. Would love for you to show websites and books that you recommend using. 😊
Thank you so much for this video Lindie! It truly came at the perfect time. And I just wanted to add, you look amazing! Beautiful as always 😊
@Lindie Botes I love Japan and about a month ago I said to myself try learning the language so I installed duo lingo on my tablet. I found it frustrating due to the repetition for simple words and phrases BUT it made me realise that I'm gonna have to learn hiragana & katakana. Duolingo has romanji & hiragana but the romanji is actually useless and a waste of time. So I'm gonna print myself worksheets to practice the kana's wrt writing & pronunciation. I'm probably your parents age so it's hard for an old dog to learn new tricks, thanks for the inspiration.
Ganbatte kudasai!
This video came at just the right time. I have started learning Japanese this week as I find it frustrating to work with software make for japanese speakers as a developer. I want to cut out the google translate middleman
I am gonna do it next year. I have to learn the language that started this addiction for me
In taking this as the universe's sign to brush off my rusty beginner's Japanese again. Thanks for the video, Lindie ❤️
You got this!
Yes a 3 months plan - I was excited - first month … yes I am out 😅 I‘ve tried to learn Hiragana and no I don‘t think I can learn it within days - after a week I still did ka ke…. honestly? I‘ve been learning Korean for 5 years and still on going but I got furious with Hiragana. Korean has a logical stroke order - I guess that is the case in Japanese too but I cannot memorize them - for me random strokes left circle right here and there.
But I watch your video till the end.
Such a great and informative video! Thank you, Lindie! ❤️
Can't wait to watch this!!!❤
Hey, Lindie! I always enjoy your videos. I'm learning Korean and Japanese and wondered if you have ways to not mix the two languages up? So far, I make sure to learn each language on their own day (for instance, Monday study Korean and Tuesday study Japanese). Do you have any more tips? 😊
Neat video Lindie! I am trying to learn a bit of Japanese every day. It kind of dawned on me that unlike European languages where there are familiar patterns and I can go back to it Japanese requires more effort. Also, I actually do a mix between reading, writing, and speaking. I know everyone has their own style but I found one reinforces the other. And I told my cousin the same thing but with Ukrainian. I learn Ukrainian as one of my secondary languages. But if all you have is 15 minutes as long as you are mostly consistent your vocabulary will build up and be reinforced over time.
Yes, consistency is key! Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference. Thanks for sharing your tips!
❤️❤️ I'm so pumped up about this video
Please do one for Chinese if possible :)
Hi! I have one already but it is a few years old. You can find it on my channel :)
How about other languages like Swedish? Please make one for that too! 🙏
What I want is mainly to watch Japanese series and understand them without subtitles. Usually, these are not very complex romantic series. Will three months be enough for such content?
Thank you ❤
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Please do it with Thaï too :)
I love Japanese very much, but I always have to postpone this hobby because I have to learn English first, because Japanese resources are very few in my language and learning English before every language is absolutely essential.
If you had to choose between HelloTalk and Tandem, which one would you recommend and why?
Probably hellotalk for all the added features like the timeline, as well as the more intuitive design and better looking UI. Tandem is a bit clunky, BUT, I have found that people on Tandem tend to be more serious about practicing languages. However, hellotalk has better and wider variety of live voice roons.
What do you do with a tutor's correction after practising talking (such as anki corrected sentences etc)? I'm very poor at conversation and tend to have such a huge list of typed out corrections which I'm always wondering how to handle them. I always wonder what others do maybe just read out aloud? I agree to speak early - I'm not a beginner but being so shy and quiet I left speaking extremely late and I regret it! 😅
What do you think about using duolingo to learn katakana and hiragana?
Tbh I think their hiragana and katakana teaching method is good! It’s a free, gamified way to learn reading so I’d recommend it for sure 😊
I assume with other languages it's similar? Say, with Vietnamese, instead of the Kana I start with the tones and diacritics but the rest is pretty much the same, isn't it? Though for learning the tones, a tutor would probably be recommended early on.
I understand people wanting to learn by themselves but I'd say a tutor is necessary to correct the pronunciation.
I need something like this for upper intermediate korean. Cause girl… I AM LOST 😭
On it 🖖
as you said about writing, do you think chatgpt is good for correcting journal entries or any text in a languege? or it uses a traditional and "artificial" language that is taught in school and for natives may sound weird?...
Hmm good question. I think it helps to be a bit skeptical about AI when it comes to accuracy, so I try to use it in limited capacity like asking for vocab words. You can give it a try for sure, but it's always better to have a real person help you.
@@LindieBotes thank you!!!
Do you give lessons in Japanese?
I usually only teach at home and in person. Online, however, I do language coaching which is more like guidance, accountability, tips and resources for learning languages including Japanese. You can find more info at www.superpeer.com/lindiebotes!
Yeah, busy life is hard
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my brainrot brain at 1:35 : oiiaoiiaaa
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It has taken me four years to reach a roughly N4 level uggghh hahaha...not easy lol
Ngl, it seems you might have an inefficient system. I've also been studying for 4 years but passed N1 last year. My guess is you haven't been studying as consistently as you should or only spending a few minutes a day on it. If you want to make real progress you really need to be spending at least 2 hours a day on it to get to N2 in a reasonable time.
@@coolbrotherf127 Not everyone has two hours a day to spend, that's a very lucky position you are in!
The effort isn't the problem. I think it's my Autism and and my speech and language disorder which is slowing me down
@@LindieBotesTha' was the time when I used to learn Farsi 🇮🇷 3-min a day 😊
@@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb Wow! What did you do for 3 minutes, that almost seems impossible to me! Did it work for you?
"You're probably here because you've started learning Japanese..."
Nope... I'm here cos I'm supposed to be editing scripts...
This is such a mood :')