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rigelmejo · 11 months

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Notes to myself on study activities I want to do, feel free to try some if you feel like it -3-)/

Play Final Fantasy X in japanese (reading practice, some vocabulary learning from context or word lookup on translation app)

Listen Read to Kiki's Delivery Service on Smart Book app. This app is free (I recommend it), and let's you listen to TTS, auto generates a parallel translation, and has click translations for all words. This app has a lot of free books, but you can also just import files you have so I imported Kiki's Delivery Service. (Reading and listening practice, vocabulary learning, some grammar structure learning from context)

Listen Read to Alice in Wonderland on Duoreader app, a free app with several parallel texts with TTS audio. I already did 2 chapters, I'd like to do all of the book though. (Reading and listening practice, vocabulary learning, some grammar structure learning from context)

Listen to Game Gengo YouTube videos. Listen to Final Fantasy IX video, Yakuza Ishin video. I highly recommend just putting on his videos and listening while doing stuff, his vocabulary lessons are DENSE which i highly value in study material, because the more words studied per hour the better to me. And he explains well enough you can listen without watching, if you want to use the long videos like podcasts. (Listening practice, vocabulary learning, grammar structure learning)

Watch Nihongo con Teppei videos with japanese captions (reading practice, some vocabulary learning from context, listening practice)

Listen to Nihongo con Teppei videos (listening practice, minor vocabulary learning from context)

Listen to Glossika Japanese (vocabulary learning, grammar structure learning, listening practice)

Playing games with japanese audio, Judgement and Final Fantasy Crisis Core Remake. Barely considered studying, but I do think I get some listening practice, mainly review of words I know, by listening to Japanese that much. Especially in Judgement's case because it's like a show with how much dialogue there is relatively frequently. I think playing games with English subtitles and Japanese audio helps me keep what words I've learned fresh in my mind, rather than forgetting them. (Minor listening practice, review)

Watching Japanese let's plays on youtube, you can click auto captions for Japanese youtube videos usually and they're often decent enough to read along. Let's plays mean more frequent listening practice, more words per minute spoken, then just playing a video game in Japanese. Also some let's players will read the game text aloud, helping with learning pronunciation of new unknown words and review of pronunciation of written words. You can watch let's plays of games you've played before, which can mean you have enough prior context to guess more word meanings of unknown words. (Reading practice if captions are used, listening practice, vocabulary learning)

Watching Japanese shows in Japanese. Anime and dramas. If there's japanese subtitles, can also be used for some reading practice. I'd like to do this with Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, Devilman, and a few jdramas I'm interested in. I think I have enough vocabulary to make learning from show context feasible, i just need to rip the training wheels off but I've been a chicken about the initial difficulty of adjusting. For dramas, i think good starting options might be: Our Dining Table, She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat, Midnight Diner, and Way of the Househusband. I've tried watching a few of those already without english and they're all doable. I have a vocabulary of roughly 2000, I think this activity may be doable at a vocabulary of 1000 if you have a higher tolerance for ambiguity. As long as you can follow the main overall idea of each episode plot, you understand enough to watch and learn new words from context. For chinese I started watching shows at a vocabulary of 1000 words. Other jdramas I'd like to watch but fear will be harder in japanese without English subs to rely on: First Love, Japan Sinks People of Hope, MIU404, Kei X Yaku, Dakara Korosenakatta, Shoutai, Ouroboros... can you tell I like crime thrillers... (Listening practice, some vocabulary learning from context, reading practice if japanese subtitles are used)

Reading anything on bilingualmanga.net. I recommend this as an easier "immersion" activity then novel reading, but I'm on the fence about if it's easier to just read a japanese manga and look up the words versus using the change to english/japanese tool on bilingualmanga.net. while I love that site, it doesn't work well for me on my phone. So I usually just read entirely in japanese, and try to look up words myself using imabi app or Google translate apps handwriting input. It's an excellent site for finding online copies of japanese manga though if you want a digital manga you can copy/paste text from into a translator site/app. If you are studying Chinese I greatly recommend Bilibili Comics app for reading chinese manhua, as it has tons of free chinese/english manhua, and it gives you prizes for reading which may help motivate you to read more. (Reading practice, vocabulary learning from context or looking words up)

Reading japanese stuff on Amazon through Kindle app. Alternatively, read on whatever you want, I like Smart Book app and Moonreader app. But if you buy japanese novels cheaply on amazon.co.jp, then reading on Kindle app will be convenient. I am currently reading a manga adaptation of Kokoro, the Japanese Translation of Guardian by priest, some random novels I found, Koisenu Futari novel (I love the jdrama). I think amazon.co.jp sometimes also offers free chapters of manga, so you could download free chapters to read on Kindle for regular free reading material. Kindle app has click-translations, I hate that it has no TTS feature (if it does someone PLEASE TELL ME). No TTS feature makes Kindle suck compared to all my other reading apps. In comparison, Smart Book and Moonreader apps have TTS and click translations, so I'd recommend reading in literally any other Reader app you like better if you can get japanese reading material on it. I'm stuck with Kindle because I do not know where else to buy japanese ebooks as easily and cheaply. (Reading practice, vocabulary learning through context and click translation)

Tadoku Graded Readers. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS IF YOU'RE A BEGINNER. In fact I highly recommend them period, if you're not comfortable with reading. They're amazing, and free. You can find pdf collections of all of them together and it's around 900-1000 pages. You can also find the Tadoku readers individually free, there's several levels of difficulty. I read the mega collection since it started with the very easy graded readers then gradually increased the reading difficulty, so I didn't have to figure out what to read next. They're amazing graded readers, when used together they go from very basic Japanese (like the first chapters of Genki 1) to probably at least 1000 words of solid common japanese vocabulary. It may go up to 2000 words, I didn't check. The main noticeable benefit is they are written to read a LOT of Japanese that's easy for you to read, so you can practice the skill of reading without the difficulty of constant unknown words/grammar to break the reading practice flow. As a result, when you're done reading the Tadoku graded readers, you come out of it feeling it is much easier to read Japanese for hours straight. Because you've practiced reading itself, so the activity itself feels doable and easy, and it's just the difficulty of reading material like number of unknown words that feels challenging. If you're a false beginner like me who knows a few thousand words, you can read all 1000 pages of the Tadoku readers in a few days to a week. Afterward, novels and manga will feel much less daunting. That's 1000 pages of practice getting used to reading Japanese grammar patterns and the words you already studied easier, while filling in any basic vocabulary gaps you had. If you're a true beginner, you could probably still do 1 Tadoku story every few days. As you get to the longer Tadoku graded readers with more vocabulary, you might do one story every week or few weeks. The Tadoku readers are genuinely SO beginner friendly and easy to use and NICE. I wish there were 10 other graded reader collections this actually easy to read, this comprehensible, for Japanese. (Reading practice, vocabulary learning)

For beginners, I'd recommend: Tadoku Graded Readers (for reading practice and vocabulary learning), Game Gengo YouTube videos (lesson format vocabulary learning and grammar pattern learning where you can jump in at any video and learn something, no major difficulty curves), Nihongo Con Teppei (good listening practice for middle beginners and upward), Glossika Japanese (if it is free/cheap to you only* in my opinion, it can be started as a complete beginner and will be useful until your vocabulary is around 2500-3000 words)

For upper beginners: manga reading either on bilingualmanga.net or finding any japanese manga then looking up the unknown words yourself. It will be easier to do if you already know the manga in your native language, and if its a manga that's about more obvious topics (like daily life, romance, action). You can download translation apps like imabi or jisho, just use Google translate in a pinch (I like the handwriting input if i dont know the kana for a word or the voice input if i happen to know pronunciation), Ichigo Manga Translator app is a free screen reader translator app in a pinch to look up words on manga panel images. For the people who want heavier text materials, try out Duoreader app (for its free parallel texts) or Smart Book (if you have your own japanese ebook files or text files). Those two apps both provide: parallel texts, text to speech audio, click translations. Those tools can be nice to lean on as a beginner, if say you don't know a pronunciation and need to hear it or vice versa you don't know a spelling and hearing pronunciation helps clarify what word you're reading, parallel text helps with figuring out grammar, click translation of course helps with vocabulary meaning. And both Duoreader and Smart Book are free. Other Reader apps will work fine (Kybook, Moonreader, Kindle, literally anything including Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox because all web browsers have click translate and TTS). But not all other reader apps provide parallel text translations, and those can be very useful if you aren't sure of the grammar. The Golden star BEST recommendation for upper beginners is Satori Reader app, because it's got graded readers of various difficulties until you're reading close to native japanese novel difficulty stories. Satori reader has interesting stories, parallel text translations written by real translators and include extensive grammar explanations, human narration for all stories. The caveat: Satori Reader costs a monthly subscription. I do plan to use the app eventually, some month I can justify the price because I'm in a reading mood and managing to read 300 chapters or more a month. But currently I'm finding it's free sample chapters sufficient, and reading other (less learner friendly) materials that I'm more interested in at the moment.

For upper beginners/lower intermediate learners who like video games: I highly recommend japanese let's plays on youtube, japanese auto captions turned on. Let's plays provide you spoken audio for all text in the game (if the let's player reads everything aloud) making it easier than playing video games, they're videos so you can pause them to check word spellings or replay audio to hear something better, you can select lets plays of games you've played before (for example if I listen to Kingdom Hearts let's plays I can pick up a LOT of words because I know the script in English almost by heart as one of my favorite games). You can replay cutscenes multiple times if you don't understand them, and use the let's players reaction to figure out what was meant to be taken away from the scene. You can practice the skill of learning things from context (story, plot, visuals, listening/reading what you know and guessing the unknown word meanings from what's around them) without the pressure of Playing a video game yourself. Because you can pause, replay, and just follow along, you can focus on learning new stuff and understanding the bits you've studied before. While the let's player will show you how to play the game, what the menus mean and attack commands mean, where things are on the map, and all the things the game player will need to know. Then if you decide to play the game yourself later, you will not be struggling with all of that while ALSO trying to understand the japanese. I think Game Gengo's videos for beginners, then let's plays for upper beginners, then trying to play video games in japanese that you've played before in your native language, is a good progression if you want to make things feel fairly doable. (You can definitely do whatever though, I played Kingdom Hearts in japanese before checking out let's plays lol, cause it's better to do whatever you are MOTIVATED to actually do rather than what's the "best possible activity." Do what you want first, then change things based on what's more easy or difficult if you want or need to).

#rant #japanese #study plan #japanese study plan #study activities #japanese study activities

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o2studies · 3 months

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༻`` 3 Feb 24 — Saturday

100 days of productivity 34/100

Found the notebook with my Japanese notes (hiragana and katakana). I've decided that tomorrow I'll buy another notebook to learn Italian in and leave this one for when I continue learning Japanese.

Not a great day productivity wise. Felt quite down in the afternoon but in the evening we went to a relatives' house for dinner and talking to them did cheer me up. Although we were there for about 3 hrs and now I'm so tired... Tomorrow I'm going to go to a cafe after mass to study in so my tracked study hours are about to go up!! (finally!)

30 day new year momentum challenge 2/30

share a photo of your study area:

It's way overdue to be tidied but it still functions

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hakonohakoda · 1 year

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Hello everyone! Welcome to my japanese learning diary!

Some ground facts: I've been studying Japanese on and off for a long long period of time with varying success. Finally last December I hit my first measurable goal. I passed the N5! (Very much unofficially with an app- mind you)

I was happy with my success and made a plan to pass the N4 in the next 3-4 months and the N3 around this time next year. These were vague goals I hadn't committed to very much. However as I shared these plans my friend laughed at me and told me there was no way I could do it. So me, being a reasonable adult absolutely ignored his opinion and continued on my merry way happily.

Who am I kidding? I took offence and upped my arrogance x100. One thing led to another and we now have a gamble going. According to that I absolutely must pass by February 12th 2024.

It has been a couple of days and to answer the question of do I regret this? Absolutely. But I'm a woman of my word and this is now a thing that will happen. Come hell or high water.

Currently my study plan is to study vocab, kanji and grammar in renshuu. I'm also reading a small picture book a day at tadoku.org as well as listening to beginner podcasts. I'm also watching japanese gaming streams but to be completely honest my understanding of them is less than 10% and mostly I do it for fun. Let's just call it passive learning :D

I'm a big fan of statistics so I'll share some here.

These are my current renshuu stats. 1075 words, 117 kanji and 63... grammar? I don't think they are seperate grammar points. To be completely honest with you I've no idea what this means.

To compare to what you need to know for N3

~650 kanji

~3750 vocab words

So im around a 4th or 5th of the way there. It will be a long journey ahead. Possible? Yes absolutely. Lots of hard work, long hours and frustration? Also yes. Absolutely.

But with this said I'm off to wrestle my daily reviews into submission! Thank you for reading and if you are interested in seeing where this journey will end up in make sure to hit that follow button!

#japanese learning #first post #japanese studyblr #japanese study #jlptn5 #jlptn3 #jlpt n5 #jlpt n3 #japanese learning blog #daily japanese #studying japanese #japaneae study plan

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studyyblrring · 9 months

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２０２３年8月15日

here's today's to-do list for Japanese:

wanikani (min. 30 reviews + any new lessons that come up)

irodori -> can-do 6&7 from L2 + all practice flashcards L1

listen to 2-3 episodes of nihongo con teppei (beginners podcast)

optional:

watch 1-2 youtube videos on grammar/vocab/etc + take notes

i'll check in again at the end of the day with an update on what i managed to get done. またね〜

#it all looks so easy when written down like this but im gonna dread it once i start it especially the flashcard practice #studyyblrring #japanese learning #studyblr #langblr #to do list #study plan #study motivation

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hoardlikegoldenirises · 7 months

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in an effort to rest my left hand from typing and also my usual exercises in doing random shit I don't have a lot of experience with, I have exported some .bmps and used the auto-tracer in inkscape (which i have done before for other things) so that i can turn this logo into an svg file with consistent angles and, you know, resizeability and sleekness.

The main thing I'm doing here is cleaning it up (fixing the angles in particular) and then I have to figure out how I want to do the shapes for the flame colors, which I'll probably do manually cause the color quantization tracing mode doesn't quite do what I need it to do lol

I don't even know if Seth is going to definitely be called Scratch (have been spitballing a variety of vigilante-friendly names in my notes) so I probably shouldn't be putting the effort into this on the off chance they end up called something like Aetherflame instead (lol) (like actually that's one of the names in my list) but this is the logo I have, so, you know.

anyway, practice, right? :P

#my cyst is actually not really any worse than usual but it seems i've been typing so much that my wrist has started to hurt occasionally #i can't imagine my typing setup (a large full-sized keyboard sitting on top of my laptop) is helping #i mean it's angled up which is inconvenient for other reasons but there's only so much i can do here ergonomically LOL #wipnadiart #arghdesign #scratchverse #scratch #FUN FACT: I was originally planning to go into graphic design in college! I Did Not Do That and i didn't learn anything about it at all #so this is me uhhh learning by doing which is my usual technique (cough spider-man modding)#(i ended up with a language studies focus and an art history subfocus after transferring to a different school and graduating there)#(this was less out of the blue than it seems; my original-original plan was in fact to major in Japanese and iirc minor in graphic design)#(neither of those things happened in part because they cut the number of japanese language programs at my first college lol)#(which led to me taking ancient greek and linguistics 101)#(which then led to me taking more linguistics classes and mandarin and arabic lol)

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lucasgatoviski · 9 months

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How I will be studying languages until the end of this year (2023)

Languages ( Brazilian Portuguese Native, Latim, English, French, Arabic, Mandarin chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian)

So, I completed the challenge of "Speaking Japanese during 30 days" On Tik tok. I learned a lot of things and problably I will do the same thing with the other languages that I'm studying. Now, I decided to make a plan to study because I'm feeling a little bit lost.

After all, I always do what I want, but if I have a goal, I feel confident to reach it in a "creative way"; O jeitinho brasileiro.

Vamos lá!

Latim: I will be writting here, at least once in a week in latin. My goal is to make a "Speaking latim during 30 days in november" On tik tok.

Japanese: I decided to take the N3 level in japanese. I wanted to take the N2, but I have never taken this exam, so it's better to play safe an save my money...

French, spanish, english, portuguese: I will make a youtube channel, I want to make videos about my progress and these are the languages that I can make entire videos using them, i also can speak japanese at certain point, however I still need to practice more.

Russian: I want to take the A2 exam in october. I need to study a lot. The exam is in the end of october, I think it's gonna be a good idea to make a "Speaking russian during 30 days in october.

Mandarin Chinese and arabic: I don't have plans for these languages, next year I will come back studying them again, but I want to reach a higher level in these other languages first.

I also have other hobbies, so I will make a different post to talk about my artistic goals.

Bye bye!

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waffletheorist · 2 months

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My mum's side of the family: Learn Greek so you can talk to us!

My high school Spanish teacher: You scored really high on the test, I hope you continue to take this class.

My high school French teacher: You're good at French, you should keep studying it.

Personal interests: You should study Japanese so you can learn more about me!

Me, nervously sweating, staring at my Duolingo realizing I might have to learn 4 languages.

#polyglot #languages #linguistics #language memes #i do genuinely want to learn these languages though #before anyone gets concerned about me succumbing to peer pressure and suffering for it #may as well study linguistics at this point tho if I gotta know so many languages #language #multilingual #bilingual #learning languages #prioritise french and spanish for now because they're part of school #then after I do those #learn Greek #then Japanese #that's the plan for now

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rigelmejo · 10 months

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Some updates incoming ovo)/

So I'm stepping up my listening to japanese and chinese. I saw a YouTube video where the guy insisted on trying comprehensible input and just paying attention but not putting in intense effort to learn. It sounds like a fun thing to test. Things he used: comprehensible input videos on youtube, graded readers, and then once he could understand most of the words (which I'm assuming he means he could at least "understand the main idea" but he did not clarify) he started listening to podcasts. This last part I think would be useful for me to do, because he mentions it's easy to fit audio into a daily schedule, and I've found that to be true. If it's JUST audio and I can do other things while listening? I CAN do hours a day.

My plan for japanese: listen to glossika japanese (is this the month I'll finish those fucking audios and be able to review IF glossika is useful and if so then how much? I hope but I suspect it won't happen lol... glossika is the best ill get as entirely comprehensible input audio though), listen to let's plays in japanese of games I've played before so I can follow the audio main idea (I'm doing this right now - the plus side is this is more engaging to me and easier for me to consistently do). Also: listening to nihongo con teppei (I think this is the closest to comprehensible input AUDIO I'll find for my level) and maybe watching the japanese subtitles (for reading help), listening to japanese audio dramas on youtube while reading the japanese and/or English subtitles (which is Listening Reading Method), watching Japanese comprehensible input channel videos on YouTube (the only thing is I suspect I'll avoid doing this simply because it requires more effort and I'm lazy). If my listening skills get WAY better (and yeah that's a Big IF) then I'll transition to listening to horror japanese podcasts I found on Spotify last month - they have transcripts so I can read through the text while listening if I can't follow the main idea with just audio. If I get MUCH better? I'll transition to japanese audiobooks. I have 2 audiobooks saved as audiobooks with japanese subtitles, one being The Little Prince, that I think may be easy enough for me to Listen Reading Method with right now.

Optional additional things to do in japanese: I have some japanese books saved in Smart Books app. I could basically try READING a real novel, using the TTS, click translation, and parallel translation of sentences as help. Basically I'd be reading the same way one can in Satori Reader, but free. I also have bought a PSP with a ton of japanese games so... once that comes in the mail, I'll BE playing japanese games. That will be SOME kind of language practice and improvement lol. I may also try watching some Japanese shows JUST in japanese (downside is its challenging, upside is challenge actually motivates and interests me sometimes so I may enjoy doing it)

Chinese plan: listen to entirely of Spoonfed Chinese Audio (completely comprehensible audio - in a dream world I finish and review this but I am SO bad at using these types of study materials consistently), i may listen to some Comprehensible Input Youtube videos but i dont feel focused enough tbh to pay attention, continue read Chinese novels and ideally finish 坏小孩 and 撒野 which I'm currently reading in Smart Books App (I also have some priest novels I want to read with the Smart Books parallel translation aid, but those are going to be LONG reads and idk if I have the focus right now). I may listen to some audiobooks, but the issue is difficulty varies WILDLY for me when it comes to audio (I should just bite the bullet and LISTEN I'm sure I'd improve ToT). The thing is like... my chinese comprehensio, feels quite decent, so when I don't understand something I get frustrated and want to give up REALLY QUICK. Whereas with japanese, I understand much less, so I get really excited and motivated when I just understand one snippet of something I'm reading or listening to, and I don't get demotivated when I see stuff I don't understand (which happens frequently).

I may also watch some Chinese shows only in chinese (I currently have like 12 on my to watch list in only Chinese and a couple are only available in chinese). I'd love to find a Law and Order/NCIS type chinese show so I could just turn it on and pay only partial attention since its only an episode long plot, if anyone has any recommendations?

Basically I want to increase my audio input, particularly any audio where I can comprehend the main idea (or more). So for japanese: glossika japanese audio, let's plays of games I've played, nihongo con teppei. For chinese: chinese spoonfed audio, chinese audiobooks (suck it up mejo!). I want to try increasing this for a month or so and seeing how much it helps my improvement.

#rant #progress #study plan #japanese #chinese #comprehensible input #chinese study plan #japanese study plan

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