How to start reading Japanese…
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2023
- This is how I improve my reading in Japanese!
The only grammar resource I used:
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The website I use to learn kanji + vocab:
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I’m Angelo, a guy who’s really into languages. By making videos like these, I want to share my passion and try to help / inspire / teach others.
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Is kanji your biggest struggle too when it comes to reading?
yes
my biggest struggle is laziness
Yes
Ask yourself if you really want this? What DO you want? Maybe you just don't enjoy the learning and want to be able to read. Don't set high expectations either. Try a few kanji a day and see how that goes...
You have to somehow find a way to make them make sense to you. When you see one, you instantly know what it means. That requires exposure and repetition. You'll get to that point if you don't give up! It's normal to not understand most of what you read haha
The Nihongo app on iPhone has been a great dictionary for me. It has the word and its different forms in plain and formal Japanese as well as a ton of example sentences.
Oh, a dictionary app with example sentences sounds pretty useful actually
@@Angelovanrooij and it shows you how to draw kanji
Use remembering the kanji to get a rough idea of the meaning of each kanji (the glyph itself), words are generally comprised of kanji that make sense for the overall meaning so you can piece together most of the vocab from context.
The actual pronunciation of the kanji can be given by furigana, so using that in reverse.
Normally you learn the vocab, so assign a meaning to the sound, then read the furigana to get the sound of the kanji, and relate that to the meaning. But this is only really letting you turn furigana into meaning, not kanji into meaning. So reading without furigana is impossible.
If you do RTK the kanji give you the meaning, so you can read very easily (comparatively), and it helps whenever you need to understand a menu or something. To get the pronunciation you can then read the furigana. you can also watch stuff in japanese with japanese subtitles, if that has the kanji in the subtitles it will help you get the sound too.
Vocab is better for a listening and speaking based learning approach, RTK is better for a reading focused approach.
Bet! Ask me in a year how it goes. I'm learning how to read japanese to read light novels, watch/read anime without needing for subtitles/translation!!!!
Good luck on your journey! you can learn a lot in a year
Thanks for this video. I really though I would never get to be interested to learn the writing of the Japanese language, but I'll be trying hard from now on !
It's so fun, because sometimes you can guess the meaning of words by knowing the kanji and that's really satisfying!
Good idea for learning any language, imo.
Hello, I am a day strong, and I don't know if I should be starting with the Alphabet or listening to Japanese words.
Edit: 3 days after, I've learnt all the Hiragana with the Douken and am currently learning the compounds. I can read Hiragana sentences but bearly understand
Hey, I recommend learning the alphabet first if you want to be able to read Japanese. You can still listen to Japanese in the meantime but make sure you have a good foundation by knowing all the kana. Good luck!
how many years did it took you?
Well, I started learning in 2018 but I wasn't consistent at all. I've been learning again recently so I'd say 2 years minimum.
Then again, I really need to work on my reading and speaking and there's always something to improve... Don't worry about time
@@Angelovanrooij I guess I'll trust the process for now.
Kanji isn't my biggest problem rn since I bruteforced the fuck out of RtK which helped a lot with vocab retention.
The biggest problem however is my dumbass comprehension. I can read like 70-90% but fail to understand shit. Any tips regarding this?
Oh I feel you. I often feel like I know the words that I'm reading without understanding the meaning of what I'm actually reading...
I think it's because I haven't seen the word being used enough in other contexts so I can't guess exactly what it means...
When that happens I'll just translate the whole sentence and see if I understand. If not, I'll skip over it.
I personally like to watch videos because there is a visual context so learning words might be a bit easier...
But the same thing goes for reading. Just keep reading, you will see the word again/grammar again and it'll get easier
This is genuinely a great video. I hope your channel succeeds :)
Thank you so much! I'm planning to upload again this month!