(First of all, I’m sorry if I’m already doing this completely wrong! This is the first time I ever posted anything on here and I’m not used to how these kind of things work lmao.) Anyway, I just wanted to see if I could get some feedback regarding my method for learning Japanese. So right now I am …

Yeah thats what it seems like. For OP, honestly I feel like depth of knowledge is not too important. Just getting a general understanding of the words will be fine if you’re only a couple months into your studies. Besides, plenty of early words really don’t have too much depth to them (e.g. 人、学校、本)…

You just explained my entire thought process (though in a much more organized fashion) over what I’ve been experiencing recently!! I really do think there’s a divide between beginners who want to get a handle on the fundamental grammar & vocabulary first vs. those who just dive right in! Obviously i…

[image] Vanilla: For OP, honestly I feel like depth of knowledge is not too important. Just getting a general understanding of the words will be fine if you’re only a couple months into your studies. Besides, plenty of early words really don’t have too much depth to them (e.g. 人、学校、本). Unless…

Yeah, I think “gaining a deeper understanding” of vocabulary becomes more important later on as the words you study become more and more complex and nuanced. I always loved studying nouns since to me, they are the easiest thing to learn in any language (i.e, a duck will always just be a duck in ever…

Aww you’re welcome!!! I was really hoping I wasn’t going to make anyone else have an existential crisis over their learning processes/methods like I just did lmao

[image] MidnightFuyu: (i.e, a duck will always just be a duck in every language, just with a different way of saying it.) Though, animals might not be the best example of that, because you can categorize them at many different levels, resulting in different languages having different common u…

Oops, maybe not the best example lol. Maybe a noun like “chair” or “table” would have been more accurate (though I’m sure a language may have a different way to say it, to me it’s just another way to say the same thing if you get what I mean…) but nonetheless I’m still in favor of learning nouns vs.…

[image] MidnightFuyu: Oops, maybe not the best example lol. Maybe a noun like “chair” or “table” would have been more accurate (though I’m sure a language may have a different way to say it, to me it’s just another way to say the same thing if you get what I mean…) but nonetheless I’m still in f…

[image] MegaZeroX: incidental learning of vocabulary through reading is less efficient than rote memorization. By less efficient, I mean that for the time invested, there will be less new vocabulary words gained at a recall level from reading than from traditional rote memorization. [image…

Try to figure out what works for you. The best training for reading and listening skills are reading text and listening to conversations respectively. However, this’ll still keep you weak in speaking, so I thought “I have bought so many manga at Comiket and Reitaisai, maybe I should open them up a…

Is this a good approach to Japanese (overall) or no?

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Nemuitanuki June 29, 2020, 6:05am 49

I’d definitely study along with you if you post your vocab list that you study.

Oooooo what was your first foreign language?

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Is this a good approach to Japanese (overall) or no?

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