That's it, I'm going to begin learn japanese in 2026. This is for real this time, what games will get me started?
the "write the kana's a hundred times so you actually remember them" game
The Pokemon games are supposedly mostly simple katakana so that little kids can play them.But games themselves aren't probably the best way to learn nihongo. You needs to actually immerse yourself in the language and put the language parts of your brain to work.
>>729492309H-games that appeal to your fetishes, unironically
What if I learn japanese vocab with romanji which is easy and then when I finish learn katakana and hiragana, I can start reading them and I'll already know what the words mean?
>>729492367i think this was the most daunting part about japanese for me. i went to japan and it was fairly easy to learn to understand and speak the language. unfortunate that the one thing i really want to do with the language, read for VNs, is hard as hell because of kanji
>>729493023I started in 2020 and have N1 and read jp books/play jp games everydayit literally takes 24 hours to get a decent grasp on every kana. MINUTE ONE of learning japanese should be reading that tofugu article about hiragana and getting them down. Then genki 1, 2, tobira for grammar and whatever kanji learning system you want to go with (im a good little paypig so i used wanikani). I just had fun all day learning some new grammar points, reading graded readers online, writing kanji over and over. it was so gradual its hard to believe im basically fluent now. The only thing I'd change if I did it all over is to do more listening, but most jp learners like anime so they wouldn't have the same problem I did. my listening has always lagged behind everthing else.
>>729492309 Good shit, anon. If you're serious this time, start with stuff like Pokémon or older Dragon Quest games-they’ve got furigana (kanji with little kana for reading help), and the vocab is simple enough to not fry your brain on day one. Add some daily Anki reps and grammar from Tae Kim or Cure Dolly (voice filters be damned, her explanations are legit). And don't be afraid of visual novels like Clannad or Steins;Gate with texthooking + Yomichan once you're comfortable-it’s good reading practice and you’ll pick up casual speech patterns too. Just remember: one new word a day is better than none over a year. がんばれよ!
>>729492309Tim Ferris highly recommends Manga for learning any language.
>>729492309>>729492309>>729492309It’s impossible to learn Japanese in a year, everyone in here is lying to you
Youtube showed me a random little black girl reading japanese on a chinkheld and it made me self-conscious.I wish I could commit to anything or even start things nowadays. I learned the kana 17 years ago but I wonder if I could do that now. I need instant reward or I have no chance.
>>729493023If you mean, study the terminology for a game for a day before playing it, yes. You should be focusing on consuming whole media. That includes Kanji.
Impossibru
>>72949455924 hours as in a day, or 24 logged hours?
>>729492309You should start now instead of waiting a few days for the year to roll over.Start by learning the sounds and kana, and don't use infantile tools like Duolingo that attempt to gamify the process. Learn so that you can pursue your interests instead of reviewing just to keep a dumb streak going.If you're not an underageb& and don't suffer from developmental issues, then you have the bare minimum mental capabilities to learn 100-odd symbols and 50-odd sounds within a week at most and have them stick.Use a no-fluff kana trainer to drill yourself. From there, start learning basic grammar rules and kanji/vocab, and how sentences are formed and structured.Try to read texts that go beyond single isolated sentences as soon as possible, like children's books and manga, since context becomes extremely important in determining the meaning of sentences.RPGs designed for kids are a good next step since they'll often have simple vocab words that appear frequently, and tend to provide assistance for reading some words.The vast majority of your journey will be about building your vocabulary, encountering new words and kanji and deciding whether you want to commit those to memory, or gloss over them if they're rare enough.Above all, remember that you can't learn Japanese if you don't put in the effort.
>>729492459but no h-games appeal to my gay muscle futa on female wrestling gangbang fetish
>>729495880>tfw you will never attend the army's language school 8 hours a day to forcefully DRILL it into you in a year
>>729492309ai is about to translate everything perfectly so I wouldn't bother
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