Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else wants to learn about best way to learn japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my colleague got cool results with it.

@@marioperez6466couldn’t find what your talking about

Congrats on that achievement friend! :D

Thanks Emil! :D I'd try and say something in French but I only know that Christina Aguilera song and I'm pretty sure it's not something good to say haha

I’m just here for my people! :D let’s all head to fluent together!

Oh no! I've miscalculated!

hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover how to speak japanese online try Pycanta Simple Japanese Protocol (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my friend got cool results with it.

*japanese men

Not going to lie, if you want to meet Japanese women, learning to become fluent in Japanese is one of the worse things you can do.

hahaha! so funny :)

No, Vincent. WE'RE the man

Thank you so much! :D Keep learning and growing my dude! If you need any help don't hesitate to ask!

So how are your classes after about 9 months

*　ありがとう

You forgot the u it's ありがとう

ハンス it's been over 2 years, how is it going? Hopefully you've learnt Japanese! I'm just starting. :)

Thank you Tyree! :D It's a rad one for sure

How you feeling dude???

Spectrum ah same dude My goal is to finish hiragana and katakana by the end of high school and learn some grammar building doing this by watching anime in Japanese (to know some words I can later on use) studying online, reading folk tales, and memorizing a few kanjis here and there. My high school does offer Japanese but for native speakers only (sucks). Good luck on your Japanese journey mate

That's awesome to hear! :D It's called 怪談レストラン！It's a horror anthology and each book is based on a new creature from mythology!

Gavin Olivas I wish I still was. Haha I can still play well but because I didn’t keep up on the type 2 meta, I’d suck terribly at any tournament :/

It's all about legacy, EDH, and cube ;) BTW playing mtg in Japan is interesting

Gavin Olivas only competed once in Legacy, didn’t go far against $5,000 decks haha EDH is fun but I like themed decks too much to be competitive. And I’ve never played cube!! Hopefully someday!

Are you still good at MTG?

Actually did this for you my dude ^_^ You and a handful of commenters this week! I do try and make what ya'll ask :P

Oh also... NOTE SQUAD ASSEMBLE

Chad Zimmerman Oh btw, seeing an in depth video on reading would be dope. I look forward to it if you do go ahead and make one. And thanks for the video!

Heard loud and clear!

I do read all three every day! On top of reading and writing my Japanese friends on social media. I do each for around 20, so a total of around an hour. :D Do whatever works for you my dude! There's no wrong way to learn except for not trying!

It's something I NEVER like doing, even in English until I started learning the higher level grammar in books and seeing it in novels. Then it just sorta... clicked? lol

It gets easier over time. In the beginning it took me 2+ hours to read one chapter in Harry Potter. Even with inconsistent practice I now read fast enough for books to be enjoyable and for me to notice improvements within each new book. I'm still slow compared to a native Japanese speaker (maybe 1/3 the speed) but still, you will get it eventually.

@@jessesjapanese8484 praying I get there!!!! Manga is easy, but novels are hard

@@yo6285 you could try to read a novel with many sections. When my husband started reading novels, he chose one which had a new section every 2 or 3 pages or so. That way, he was able to set a goal of reading one section a day, so he was able to stay consistent with it. Good luck!

Which ones? I didn't give names cause they were just to give you some level examples and the actual book I was holding was less important. And I buy them in Japan :) If you want the manga and light novels though check out my manga club on my patreon! Have a good day!

I actually got ahold of an online PDF from a fan to review, but I don't think I can do it justice without the full online resources :/ So I'm saving to buy it to review for you guys!

I think www.japanese.io/home is pretty good, has wide array of readings with built in furigana etc. I've also started a channel related to Japanese translations and reading if you want to look.

Sadly I don't have an easy answer for physical books :/ but for online or ebooks here's two sites I use! One is lower level, one is more intermediate and advanced! life.ou.edu/stories/ www.aozora.gr.jp/

i recommend looking into websites like bookoff, kinokuniya, or amazon jp(they ship to the states)

I actually never used his volume 2. I stopped after 1,500 from meanings, and just by learning vocabulary I was able to connect the dots. So if from learning Japanese you know ねこ is cat, and from Heisig you know 猫 is cat, you can connect that dot without the help of the book. But it requires you read A LOT. And study Japanese pretty hard because you're essentially trying to learn it organically. If you want a more, spoon fed version? Then you can try and find a reading's list like the 日本語総まとめ series for the JLPT. I used that just to solidify my N2 Kanji reading's. But for the most part I've made most of my progress just by connecting dots on my own.

thanks so much that was super useful!

Aiya A. jj

guerras

Patricia Vazquez was it the black cover one??

Chad Zimmerman about the kid that becomes an angel and fight the crime and has images and you dont need dictionary :)

Patricia Vazquez ohhhh it’s a manga called D N Angel!

I started with the manga こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 , colloquially called kochikame for short. Has Furigana, fun stories but demanding language at times too. I'm N1 level Japanese now, but still like kochi kame.

Márcio Rodrigo dude funny story, that’s the site that started me on Japanese!!! I actually recommend it as a starter place for people who want to learn but aren’t sure if they want to commit to super serious studies, like get the free week trial and download all the beginner seasons and just run them with the pdf’s! I think for a start it’s a heck of a resource!

Chad Zimmerman そうですね。My study method is to add the sentences I still don't know in a SDS and listen to the audios several times. Do you think it's not a good resource for intermediate students? I look at this tool as a great one to learn new vocabulary and structures. Isn't it?

I would never use it for anything beyond beginner. Tbh if you're serious it's not really even the best for beginner it's just the best for the price (of free). The best textbook for beginner that I've found is Genki. Intermediate is tough since it's such a wide topic, you'll need several books to get through it and kinda know what you're doing imo

Me who started Japanese with Yoko Sensei: *Blinking guy meme insert*

@@ThatsMyChad truer words... I've been stuck in Intermediate hell for decades. I actually think this is the sweet spot of Japanese language learning, or language learning in general - there's just nothing comprehensive out there to grab onto once you hit "defeated Duolingo" status, that isn't a giant confusing muddle.

I've been on and off learning for awhile and if I ever want something light to read, I pick up my volume of Yotsuba To! I've barely gotten my hands into grammar and kanji but its enjoyable to skim through.

Chad Zimmerman reading Japanese book 📚 is extremely difficult and hard 😡😡😡

NICEU NICEU VERY NICEU ZIMMERMAN

your mean :

haha! I try, I try :P

I've heard that number, and it's conventional wisdom comes from comprehension of the text, no on the speed of reading. If you read a text that's 70% comprehensible but you know a small number of kanji you're being exposed to sentences with much lower rates of kanji than a text you understand 50% or less. Reading a sentence of mostly kana isn't preparing your brain to read normal Japanese with the regular frequency of kanji, seeing the shape of the sentences and regular patterns you'd encounter. This is often the problem with people moving from textbook Japanese to like, a newspaper for instance. They aren't used to the real forms and the sheer walls of kanji as compared to their tailored experience. It's like saying can you practice swimming in the ocean with tides and waves by using one of those small backyard kiddie pools: you definitely can, but you'd get better much faster by swimming in the actual ocean even though it's much harder.

Table News more or less! Each person finds a reason for the level they’re reading, I’m just trying to argue for not always staying at a level that comforts you or to over extend yourself. Diversity in your reading is massively helpful!

Chad Zimmerman well then lit I’ll do that then🙏 thanks

Table News happy to help ^_^

What country are you in? If it's America I run a Manga Club where I send people 4 books a month. It got a little shaken up since the borders closed, but it's a good entry point. You can also do an amazon prime account from Japan but you need to pay the extra international shipping. Ebay sometimes has deals, and I've ever found them at those cool indie book stores that also sell records. But finding a specific book or volume can be difficult for a reasonable price.

@@ThatsMyChad Im in germany, and Ive tried using the japanese amazon, but it didnt work and Ive heard that you can use any Region for Amazon EXCEPT Japan and korea or so sadge

@@FR_N-do4xi me too!

It's called 海と毒薬, it's by 遠藤周作 who is just a delight to read. I don't know if you heard about that Silence movie that came out recently but that's also one of his stories! And I can recommend a really good series: Yotsubato is great for beginners. It's nice since it doesn't feel like it's trying to pander to beginners like children's books do. I, to this day, have the complete set :)

Chad Zimmerman I appreciate that, and thank you

Yeah I remember that hump haha I didn't get past it until I was teaching kids English in Japan and learned how they talk to their friends XD You can learn it just by watching lots of kids shows in Japanese too (from what some of my friends told me), but it was annoying when you see something marketed to kids and you're like "...wow sweet I know like 3 actual sentences on this page"

2 years

Got you fam! Heres a link to all children's books in Japanese, free to read! life.ou.edu/stories/

I will say this, These often are about as easy as you'll get in the real world unless you have something tailored to your level, like a textbook or something. So if this is still too complex, it just might be too early for native materials with the method you're trying. Id suggest finding a tailored reading method where everything builds and stacks like a genki textbook or some other means of organizing the levels chapter by chapter!

@@ThatsMyChad I tried that method of going with "easy children's books" and *hated* reading. I couldn't understand anything, and it was difficult to separate the words. Sure it was easy to *sound out* but actually understanding was damn near impossible, and the actual interest was.... not at all. Children's books are boring. Instead I find stuff with kanji much better. Doing RTK gives rough/vague meanings of kanji, and often times they can combine to make a clear meaning. Such as 子猫 you have 子 meaning child, and 猫 meaning cat. So then you get child cat, or kitten. If you've got furigana you just learned that こねこ or more properly 子猫 means kitten. Whereas in "easy" books you'd see it as これはこねこです。 and not only is it difficult to distinguish that the word there is こねこ you now must also rely on a dictionary to figure out what the word means. これは子猫です。Is *much* easier for me to read than これはこねこです。And once I start learning enough kanji like this, words start being friendly and much easier to read. When I see one I know it's *instantly* recognizable, rather than struggling to figure out where the word boundaries are and then trying to remember the sound and connect it to a meaning. Just my experience. Also: reading kids books isn't my end goal, and are boring af. Since they don't actually help read the stuff I wanna read, why bother with them if it's so much easier to just read the stuff I actually do want to read? If the point is to get kana reading practice, then by all means it's a good way to do it. Though just reading kana everywhere, and perhaps better: old japanese video games like Legend of Zelda, are a lot more fun and can help with kana practice.

@@Otome_chan311 alright guys, i'll give the textbooks a try then. thanks for the replies and also, the insights.

I recommend just learning words in Kanji from the start rather than learning the words without kanji and trying to memorise kanji as individual things separately.

I've found Japanese.io pretty helpful

@@yogakudaigaku If I am honest, I've never found a truly helpful system. They are just one more line of work I have to add to my already busy day with the randomized chance as the only reason to do them. I might just be another intermediate failure and it's honestly suicide-inducing.

@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet I guess it's best to avoid anything that is getting you down that much! I think language, a new language, your native language, whatever is meant to be about connection between people. So if it's not helping that, it's probably not helping anything.

if your vocab and grammar knowledge is only n5 level then konosuba will be way too hard for you. do the core 2.3 anki deck, with sentences and audio (google it and download it) and then try the konosuba LN.

@@babygorl9541 yah, i'm still in the process of learning N5 Deck and grammar after finishing RRTK 1. Then i just realize my reading skill is way too low, I'm probably gonna wait until the next 6 months and maybe starting it from reading VN cuz they have voice acting too.

​@@user-tx6bg4ok4j how is your JP now? Did you read Konosuba?

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I'm bashful

Right? Gah damn.

No that's just wear and tear from this thing being my work horse for KZfaq and school :P

yoko sakachan same

the vocabulary of japan is so hard to learn but grammar are easy

Then don't worry about understanding, just try and get as quick at reading the kanji and kana as you can! It will help you later on in your studies ^_^

Haha! I get that a lot, but no it's something I've worn since I was 16 :P Got it at a antique store!

@@ThatsMyChad and....is a real OLD KEY or just a replica?

Wassup Plague!

Chad Zimmerman Falling asleep. Almost missed your video man!

Only 16th on my end ;P

Oh shittle

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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

If you want to go from not understanding to understanding, don't you just need to learn grammar and vocab?

I want the complete one piece collection, every time I'm in Japan they have like 80 volumes for $100 and it's sooooo tempting. But they're too easy and sadly that's money I can spend on boring old novels :/ Oh well, the pains of being upper intermediate

@@ThatsMyChad nothings wrong with repeating the easy ones :D

特攻隊 agreed! But if I’m gonna progress with my studies on a budget I need to budget accordingly :/ hopefully soon I’ll reach a really good pace and I can just buy whatever I want and not think about growing in the language xD

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Caspar Zialor normal videos use my Rode, this wasn’t in my studio so it was on a iPhone haha

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