How do I learn to read Japanese as an absolute beginner? What are the traps i should avoid? There's a lot of resources out there.
Start with the kana (hiragana first, then katakana)Find a chart and make paper flashcards, I find this works bestMake yourself write them out as part of your "answer"Once you're through the kana, I can recommend anki+kanjidamage and tae kim's grammar guideWhen you have a solid feel for kanji you can get by with just recognizing them on flashcards which speeds things up a lot, but you can't start thereyou will probably want a proper intro textbook though and I cannot remember which one I used
Renshuu in the app store
oh yeah, and the trap you should avoid is learning japaneseit is very difficult and progress will be slowonly do it if you are both dedicated and patient
Flash cards. Once you become dependant on flash cards your journey is over and you'll be an eternal dekinai. Avoid at all costs.
>>33766163don't accidently learn chinese, happend to me for 7 years.
>>33766205I'll start with kana then! I'll write them out a bunch of times until I memorize them. >>33766207I'll download that!>>33766211Im in no rush
>>33766163I won't read yet another how to be a fulltime weeb thread.Daily practice every movie and cartoon caricature of the japanese:1. Bow while saying "ah, so."2. Give a toothy smile while squinting through thick glasses.3. Stride proudly through the forest, wearing a kimono and stopping every so often to do solo sword practice. 4. Say, "so solly, excuse please!" while doing simultaneous judo throws of two guys twice your size.
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>>33766163generally you learn kana, then do an anki deck like kaishi 1.5k or the core 2/6k while reading a grammar guide or textbook or some shit.Generally I would advise you avoid the language learning communities online. Most of them are full of retards who spend all day on the community rather than learning - just a waste of time to engage with people who don't study or have the same goals as yourself really.
>>33766942Nice useful website! >>33766964Noted>>33766935You are mentally ill
>>33767055>Nice useful website!Sorry I guess this one would be more recommended https://learnjapanese.moe/The other one focuses a lot on using linux software to aid in learning.There's also a japanese learning general on >>>/jp/ called /djt/ which you can use for resources but they can be pretty retarded so don't take them too seriously if you go there.
don't start with kanjidamage you'll get bored really fast, and it's like trying to learn a language by memorizing all the words in the dictionary. Start with the other resources first, then move onto kanji once you are learning grammar and pronunciation.
>>33767071Thanks!>>33768498I've started with kana and grammar
>>33766163Watch anime with subs. Domino arigatou gozaimasu kudasai no chin chin oppai waka waka steka hentai no ecchi gyuunyuu oi oi oi baka standaze!!
>>33770658I've been watching Evangelion with japanese subtitles and looking sentences up.
>>33766163I've been learning for a year, just went to Japan last month and have been making steady progress. At the very start, memorize hiragana/katakana. You can download Anki decks for this, it should take maybe a week or so for reading recognition depending on how fast you go. I never bothered with writing practice as it's just not worth my time for my goals (consuming media and speaking to Japanese people). After getting the kana foundations, I started with Core 2.3k in Anki for ~6 months just to get a vocabulary base. 30 minutes a day, didn't do anything else really. Don't bother memorizing kanji in isolation. While continuing with that, I added grammar studies. my preference and recommendation is Cure Dolly, but not the weird as fuck videos that are painful to listen to, use the video transcriptions available on github (you can just google it). One lesson a day and you can get a solid foundation of grammar in ~3 months. I struggled to read Tae Kim, it's very dry and IMO the explanations are just bad. Around the same time as starting grammar, I started immersion by reading Yotsuba. It's about as easy as manga gets while still being fun. I read one chapter a day and finished that in about 3 months. At first it was painful just to read through a single page. Using an LLM is your friend here, you can paste the OCR'd text (or just screenshot the page) to get translations and to ask about the finer usage of expressions, grammar points, etc. Obviously you can also follow along with an english scanlation which I also recommend when starting out.After finishing your first manga and doing Anki your reading skills should be pretty decent. This is where I started immersing in anime with JP subs and mining words from the dialogue. This way you get listening as well as reading practice.Traps to avoid? Never skip a day. It's much better to do even the bare minimum Anki reps every day than to have to skip and catch up or try to cram for hours on the weekend.
>>33766163generally speakinghiragana = syllabary for all japanese and used for japanese connecting words. circularkatakana = usually reserved for foreign words. angularBoth sets have 46 symbols, with each having sound variations using a small circle or double apostrophe (with a few others).kanji are the condensed form of the above, symbolic (some literally like the one for tree or mountain).Get wagotabi on steam or android, just came out recently. Great beginner game for learning japanese. you can even practice writing in it.
>>33775485Wagotabi seems interesting thank you. Glad it's cheap. >>33772137Im not sure what Manga to read. I may try yotsuba. Probably have to stick with something for really little kids. Im doing good with hiragana BTW I have 21 memorized so far. I've been watching namasensei for beginner grammar and ignoring the Romaji.
Tofugu hiragana/katakana charts with pnemonics, really helps to remember them and how I learned.や = ya (looks like a yacht)も = mo (MOre worms on your hook catches MOre fish)Get a cheap workbook or print worksheets off the internet to learn how to write (stroke order matters)You can learn both of them in like 2ish weeks if you go fast enough, really really learn them though you can review through spaced repitition like realkana.com, that's what I usedOnce you learn all the kana you can start working in a genki textbook while doing immersion learning/comprehensive input shit on youtube. It's a grind but fun and worth it in the end, good luck
>>33776373Katakana chart aswell desu
>>33776375Also you're probably a weeb so it helps to associate sounds you know with words you may knowね = ne (neko because it has a tail and ears)ゆ = yu (yu narukami persona chad)Anything that gets you to remember them well, this technique works for kanji as well and is the best way to remember a ton of them
