研究生

In which gekirider learns Japanese

[rairaiken424]

【５１枚】スーパーで見つけた笑えるPOPｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ : あじゃじゃしたー

[japanese--lessons]

あなたの好きなアイスクリームの味は何ですか？

私：きゃらめーる。 Mine is Caramel.:3

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

[kenkyuusei]

僕の好きなアイスクリームの味はバニラといちごです

[kenkyuusei]

Save me.

[kenkyuusei]

I really need someone to help me tell the difference between 研究室 and 研究所 because it’s really getting ridiculous how often I keep getting them wrong.

[kenkyuusei]

[kenkyuusei]

I swear the meaning for ~形 changes every time it appears in my reviews.

[kenkyuusei]

The reading for 予め is completely unnecessary.

[kenkyuusei]

I will never be able to reliably differentiate between 研究室 and 研究所

[kenkyuusei]

>~70 reviews >94 lessons

[kenkyuusei]

[kenkyuusei]

5/31

Need help remembering a reading? Imagine punching a kid in the face.

[xmasqueradeangelx]

Question for any of my followers or anyone else, who speaks and reads Japanese, yet it is not their native language

Okay, so I need some help. I want to learn Japanese and have been trying to do so with the use of Rosetta Stone, but I feel as though it is throwing me into the deep end and as an absolute beginner with only a little knowledge of Japanese through anime, it is overwhelming. For anyone on here who speaks Japanese and can read Japanese kanji (like those who are able to play Japanese otome games), I would love it if you could share what methods/books/programs you have used to learn Japanese. I have wanted to learn Japanese for years and as a Shintoist, I have an even greater desire to do so. If anyone can help me, I’d appreciate it so much <3 

Many thanks! 

~xMasqueradeAngelx 

[kenkyuusei]

Rosetta Stone is only really useful for listening practice. Here’s what I’ve been using to learn with.

Hiragana and Katakana: http://www.umich.edu/~umichjlp/kana.html - Stroke order and pronunciation, write each character 50 times or until you get a good grasp on it. Learn one column at a time. http://v3.realkana.com/ - Test yourself on the kana, do the column you just learned first until you can easily recall the kana, and then do the previous columns you learned until you can recall those easily.

Grammar/vocab: Genki I Genki II For these just go through the lessons and do the reviews at the end of them. It’s pretty straight forward and easy to understand. Take notes if it makes things easier for you (it does for me).

Kanji: You’re kind of on you own here bub.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There’s no real good or bad way to learn kanji, you can do simplest characters first or simplest meanings first. Most people would recommend simplest characters first since some kanji with simple meanings have unnecessarily complicated kanji. WaniKani is a good site to use, it teaches by mnemonics and radicals, and groups kanji and vocab together by levels. It’s in beta right now and does, however, require a subscription after level 2 ($8/month or $80/year, price goes up to $10/month and $100/year after beta).

Anki is a flashcard program and is invaluable in learning vocab and kanji. You can download various decks to help (I use a deck that takes vocab from Genki, I can’t find a link for it though). There are decks for JLPT which are highly recommended, but go in order (start with 4 then work your way down to 1).

If you have Firefox, DOWNLOAD RIKAISAMA. If you have Chrome, DOWNLOAD RIKAIKUN. I’m going to copypaste from a general guide I’ve used to get started It translates anything you mouse over, 1 word at a time.  If you don't know grammar though, you wont be able to figure it out, so that's what you read Genki I and II for.  If you don't know what a word means, just write it down and mouse over it.  This is, without a doubt, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN HAVE.  Its better than a normal dictionary because it will unconjucate for you and show all possible answers to your words. All in all Rikaisama/Rikaikun are just incredible helpful, and has really helped out in my studies.

I’m still just a beginner though, so I’d probably look around for some more guides and do what works best for you.

[kenkyuusei]

5/29

[sweats profusely]

[kenkyuusei]

5/27

I went and got myself a WaniKani subscription. It’s worth it though.

I got a copy of Super Robot Wars Z Jigoku-hen the other day, and I’ve been understanding very little of it. Not enough to make out the story or anything, but I’ve been picking words and some sentences out and going “Oh I know what that means!” so that’s pretty exciting to me.

[kenkyuusei]

5/21

Getting bad at daily updates but that’s because nothing really striking has happened yet. I’m still doing my studies daily though!

I’m going to need to get a WaniKani subscription here soon.

[kenkyuusei]

5/13 - 5/18

No updates for a while because it’s been just about the same old, mostly vocab. It’s been going good though! I’m having trouble with words that are relative to time, you know, words like ‘usually’, ‘sometimes’, etc etc.

Though in the case of ‘sometimes’, I’ve been giving it the mnemonic of the word being composed of some time (時々). It’s been working pretty well, I just need a mnemonic for the other ones.

[kenkyuusei]

Some of these mnemonics, man.