Basically, I am plugging Nihongo no mori, a youtube channel. It covers a lot of grammar points and is really a lot of fun. Plus, the people who do it give all the explanations in relatively easy Japanese so you get to feel good about yourself while learning new stuff because you will be able to understand most of or at least some of the explanations if you even have ~1000 common words memorized or so. Anyway, I don’t know if anyone else has had positive experiences with it, but I find it to be a nice resource for when I am relaxing and want to learn what the heck ばかりか does in a sentence. If anyone knows other good video resources at different levels, I would be excited to learn about those too.
I like this. Most of the video resources that I have used so far are teaching through English, which kind of bothers me because I feel like I should be learning Japanese through Japanese, at least some of the time. Anyways, I think that this channel will be useful for me.
Learning a language through itself is one of the best things you can do. Obviously it will take a while to get to that level but once you’re there it’s amazing. I love to study the definitions of words in the same language rather than the English equivalents. I do this with other languages as well~
And yeah, I love nihongonomori as well. All the teachers are amazing! Can’t wait for a new series to start.
Neato bambito. Somehow I haven’t come across this, but it seems pretty useful. Ive been solely relying on filthy frank videos for my study and this seems a lot more informational.
Thanks so much for recommending this channel! Really awesome resource. I can now attend immersion-style language classes for japanese, even if there aren’t any available in my city.
Also the tone of their videos is wonderful; I love it.
This is an old topic but I thought I’d just put my experience here. When I first started Japanese I found 日本語の森, and was able to navigate the most basic series, but out of curiosity I looked at the N3 grammar series. I didn’t understand a thing! I vaguely recognized some words in the first video, but was left with a big question mark floating over my head.
Fast-forward to Wanikani level 15. At this point, I’ve discovered that I can sometimes figure out words from a combination of kanji and context. More importantly, I went to that same N3 grammar video last night and understood…almost the entire thing?! I was in shock. The teacher is explaining how だらけ、おかげ、and せい are used as grammatical modifiers, it’s super simple to me now…turns out, all I really needed was the vocab chops to be able to focus on the grammar, rather than the words.
I had the exact same experience with the exact same video! How awesome is that? Right now I’m going through that N3 grammar series. I’m around video 12 at this point and even though nothing except くらいなら has felt completely new, I want to have a solid foundation before moving to N2.
Yes, it’s a great resource! They have jukugo and other stuff as well, not only grammar.
How awesome is that? Right now I’m going through that N3 grammar series. I’m around video 12 at this point and even though nothing except くらいなら has felt completely new, I want to have a solid foundation before moving to N2.