How to learn Japanese FAST? Tips from a native speaker 🇯🇵📚✨🌎✈️

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[tet]

i love how serious she is when she talked about the 1st reason why to learn japanese lmao "to enjoy anime without subtitles"

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Step 1: Learn Hiragana and Katakana
Step 2: Get a textbook for begginners like Genki
Step 3: Use Anki to learn vocab and kanji
Step 4: Once far enough just start reading and watching native stuff at your level

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After learning some Japanese, I rewatched Akira for the first time in many years, and I really picked up on how the characters speak to each other differently: Kaneda treats Kei like an equal, but Kei calls him "Kaneda-kun" like a child because she doesn't take him seriously. Then towards the end, she drops the "-kun" part. That's a lot of cultural context that English dubs & subtitles can't really explain.

[mehve]

4th reason to learn Japanese: To enjoy the language.

Honestly, one of the most interesting things I've found when learning Japanese (and other languages), is how it forces you to think differently from your own native language. Also, learning a different language can also teach you so much about their culture, what values they hold, etc.

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Regarding the anime translations, I completely agree. I'm in my first week of learning japanese, and I started to realize that English subtitles or voice overs will translate "the idea" but not the actual sentence most of the time.

My native languaje is Spanish. I learned English from consuming North American media since childhood, and I've been interested in learning Japanese for months now.

My next goals are to learn Turkish and Portuguese as well. Your channel has been of great help Ruri in this journey so thank you very much for your explanations.

[kmwfysx]

I'm lerning english by using this video

[suteakadakarayo]

As a native Japanese speaker, I feel like knowing how to write Kanji is equivalent to accurate spelling in English. You can make yourself understand without it and rely on technology when necessary, but it definitely shows your proficiency in the language.

[arda_atalay]

11:21 "There is no shortcuts to learn Kanji" that sentence just broke me, it is so freaking hard and I need thousands of 'em

[msp]

I've found that most anime doesn't usually reflect how real people talk. But a great way I've found to listen to the language is to watch Japanese pro wrestling. The commentators narrate the entire show, and the wrestlers have interviews between the matches. So it becomes way easier to pick out certain words and phrases if you're constantly hearing someone describe what you're seeing.

[Logabone]

It’s such a pretty language! I took 3 years of Japanese, and sadly have forgotten a lot of it. The grammar and sentence structure as well as kanji was the hardest thing for me to learn!

[fabi.e]

I personally wanted to start learning Japanese because I would like to study in Japan one day, and then I started watching Attack on Titan and now watching anime without subtitles sounds promising :)

[thisisnana]

It's so weird, my whole life I was super interested in learning japanese although I had zero attachment to both the language and the country. After a while when I started learning the basics my dad noticed me doing some exercise and started helping me (he is not japanese) so I was a bit shook... Turns out my dad is a japanese speaker and ig we have the love for learning japanese in our genes.😂

[emilioferrer]

I want to learn Japanese because the language gives me peace of mind, it provides me happiness, and much more than that, I have always felt attracted to foreign languages, but Japanese has always pulled me in.

[theweeb]

I've been study Japanese for 4 years now (including 3 years of high school class), from my experience, kanji are very VERY useful for learning new vocabulary, you can even understand the meaning and reading of a word without even having come across it before just by interpreting the kanji that compose it. I have made a lot of progress in oral comprehension by watching children's cartoons (like Doraemon, Anpan man, etc...), this kind of shows have a rather simple vocabulary which is useful when you are starting out. Unfortunately, despite all these efforts, I can't say that I can really speak Japanese... Well, I can manage in the street and start a discussion, but I don't feel like I have a decent level. But it's still a very interesting language, so to the neophytes who read this message: don't lose hope and don't give up, you'll regret it!

[VALLLV]

you have a great voice and pronunciation. you speak in simple enough words but at the same time graceful speech

[extremelucky]

I can tell you, as an English speaker and a native Russian speaker, learning Japanese is one of the most challenging journeys I've embarked on. I am loving it though. Just finished learning Hiragana, about to start Katakana. Kanji will probably be the most challenging.

[GabrielLukeCraig]

I agree Hirigana and Katakana can be learned really fast. I just remember the rows until I was able to write and sound out the table by memory + dakuon. But what's harder for me is figuring out how to use a Japanese keyboard on my phone 🤔

[Unknown-sofd]

I LOVE THIS, THIS WAS REALLY HELPFUL!

[jackaleope]

i do agree 100% with the point that actually knowing japanese increases the enjoyability of watching anime exponentially. you understand the jokes better. you understand characters better. tiny nuances that can’t be expressed in english. im midway through my learning journey and its been really amazing actually understanding some of the little jokes and fun character moments they sprinkle into the writing, and getting to laugh at them.

[sooyounglee]

As a Korean, It's pretty easier to learn Japanese than people from other countries. We have shared a Chinese character and culture for a very long time. We follow the same grammar(SOV) and some words sound really similar! We're also using honorifics. Most Korean had to learn Japanese in their school (Some schools also teach Chinese as well) So, I think that's why we learn Japanese so fast