hi guys it looks like a lot of you wanted the Japanese video so here it is
it's gonna be long I hope you can listen through all of it I hope it's not too
boring and I hope that you can take a thing or two out of it first off
know that some of you might want to start learning but cant afford to take
classes be it due to cost or time so I want to say that you don't necessarily need
to take Japanese lessons to study Japanese I took Japanese classes as a
free elective in university for two semesters and I personally think that
going to classes to study something you like kinda ruins the learning process I
don't mean to say that classes arent fun but sometimes I just want to study at my
own pace and not be chased by deadlines for homework or having to memorize a whole
list of vocabulary for tests and then forgetting everything the moment
you're done with it and of course I'm not saying that no you shouldn't
take lessons if you can and you want to feel free to so it's nice to have a
qualified teacher tell you what's wrong whats right and just guide you through the whole
thing it's just that usually if you take lessons you tend to force yourself to
memorize vocabulary grammar rules other exceptions and whatnot and I feel like
it's not an effective way to learn a language or to learn anything, really
instead of memorizing I think the best way is to slowly get used to it and
get yourself exposed to the language frequently one day you'll realize that it
just sort of comes naturally to you you know so for this video I'm just gonna
tell you how I study what apps I use other resources and such just to
remind you these methods are what works for me
these might not work for everyone but I try my best to make learning fun and just to
remind you again no one said this was gonna be easy and the only way to get
through this is through perseverance determination hard work constant
practice and last not least your love for the language itself
so yeah that's get to it so if you're just starting to learn the first thing you do
is of course learn your hiragana and katakana so this is for those who ask me how I
memorize my kanji and hiragana or katakana an easy way to study is
through your favorite Japanese songs go search for the lyrics of a Japanese song
you really like and just start writing everything in hiragana you can use the
hiragana chart of course which you can find anywhere on the Internet
and just keep practicing again you don't have to force yourself to memorize the
more you practice the easier it gets over time listen to the song as you're
practicing just relax and take it slow it's not a race you don't have to rush
same goes for your katakana and when you're done writing down your hiragana katakana
lyrics close your tab and try reading out what you've written down next you're
gonna want to practice your listening skills and when I say listening skills
I meant recognizing words being said if you're still new to a language it'll
sound like gibberish in your ears so you're gonna want to practice
recognizing them even if you don't understand what it means start out with anime
that cover lighter topics like romance or slice-of-life or just
anything that isn't too heavy I say to start with anime because voice actors
generally pronounce and enunciate words slowly and very clearly
so next time you're chilling and watching anime instead of just focusing
on the subs try listening to what has been said also
use your headphones because it makes listening a lot easier you'll find yourself
picking up words soon once you get used to it
once you think you're comfortable with that you can move on to watching seiyuu
events TV programs live stages radios or basically anything that features a
natural everyday Japanese conversation this is because they usually speak a lot
faster compared to what you're used to hearing an anime if it's your first time
doing this you might not understand anything but don't worry about it when I
first started watching seiyuu events without subs I couldn't understand
anything either and I would just laugh when they laugh and I wouldn't know what
they're laughing about you know another point i wanna cover is to recognize your
pitch accents the Japanese language has only two pitch accents up and down to make
yourself sound more natural I do suggest that you learn to recognize those pitch
accents while listening if you're curious about the pitch accent for a certain
word there is a website that shows this very clearly or you can just head over
to Google Translate and press the speech button works just as well also I highly
recommend you start with standard pitch accent because that's most commonly used
this is where it starts to get difficult now maybe you're good with your hiragana
and katakana but kanji is on a whole nother level knowing Chinese beforehand
really helps but if you don't that's alright
so one website that I really recommend this is Wanikani I also just started
using this recently as well while searching for resources and I feel like
this really helps with learning your Japanese kanji because it helps you pace
yourself and and they help you keep reviewing the kanjis you have learned it's like if
you don't know any Chinese characters before this they help you break down
the Chinese characters and help you memorize by defining each of the
character so it really makes everything easier how did
I go about starting to read in Japanese a few years back I started translating
doujins and that is why I really improved in my Japanese reading skills
so I think on quick way to improve is by diving right into Japanese texts and how
do you do this now think of a social media you always open every day and
maybe almost every day say in my case it's Twitter so you can go and follow your
favorite Japanese artist and anime official twitters so the next time you scroll
through your timeline you can't help but read updates from them
I also highly recommend Twitter because not only does it load quickly but a
lot of Japanese artists and anime studios use this platform to communicate with
their fans also you don't really have to understand everything that is written
down the point is to practice reading so that it feels as natural as reading
something in your mother tongue you can always look up meaning of words using
websites when you feel a little more comfortable reading you can move on to
reading your favorite manga in Japanese like for example here I have a volume of
Daiya no ace ace of diamonds and three volumes of joker game that I've read so
I also suggest you pick up manga that has furigana at the side not only is it
easier to read but will help you with searching up specific words on the
dictionary if say you havent learned writing your kanji yet if you have yet
to learn how to write kanji and learning about stroke orders usually
manga under shounen jump or shoujo manga will have furigana on the side
if you decide to pick up the seinen or josei mangas
they don't always have furigana at the side because their target audience is
of an older age range so for last part is for writing so for this I
actually suggest you keep a journal and you can write anything you want like
everyday events like say what you ate today who did you meet what did you do
just simple stuff like thing I ate meat today
I drank soda water today i meet kaji san something like
that so you don't necessarily have to complete sentences say you wanna say
I ate meat today in Japanese kyou wa niku wo tabeta and say you don't know how to say
meat in Japanese you can just replace Niku with meat instead or if it's something
simple you can just look it up in the dictionary if it's something more
complicated then yeah you can keep replacing your English words not
everything has to be in Japanese and not everything has to be in kanji either if
you don't know how to write it although if you're using your phone and it can
convert directly to kanji but I highly suggest you write it down instead
because I heard that recently since people have been using more technology
they forget how to write kanji so I think it's better if you write it down
keep a journal yeah or but if you insist to write it on
your phone like say youre outside or something and I recommend you this app over
here which I always use and also when you read your
Japanese texts you can write down your vocab words like so write down your
kanji and then hiragana and the meaning of the word you don't
necessarily have to keep practicing them you don't have to keep writing them down
you can just occasionally look at it when you have the time so yeah just try to
make learning fun I guess since you already I'm assuming you all like anime
so you know you can go and buy doujins by drama CDs listen to more Japanese
music listen to radio seiyuu events and also a lot of people seem to think I'm
fluent but I'm really not like I still use the dictionary to look up stuff and also for
resources these are a few apps and websites that I highly suggest using
first is takoboto the Japanese dictionary this dictionary by the way is
offline which is great and also you can look up and say for example here a list
of word can look up like these kind of stuff you have your vocab you have your
kanji numbers counting and again you don't have to memorize if you don't want
to unless you have like a test the next day then I guess you have no choice
also one thing that I don't really like about this is that you can't write using
your finger like say you you want to search for word that you don't know how
to read you have so search it up according to like the strokes which is
very troublesome i dont like using it either but I just use it if I
already know how its read so yeah the second one I want to talk about is tangoristo
this is actually a Japanese news but I mean if you don't like to read news
that's okay I guess but uh I mean it's a news app but it's like really simplified it's
very easy to read and even though there are kanji words here and there like you
can just press it to look at the meaning and how its read there's also furigana
written there so it's just very convenient to use next one is jisho.org
of course and you can also if you scroll down over here you can search
up like specific stuff and as you can see under every word under the word you
can see what level of Japanese that word is here you can play audio I think not
all words have audio but yeah here you can press show inflections basically you
can see these like positive or negative Next is Twitter of course like here
Yamashita Daiki twitter DaiKing_boy and yeah you can try reading
them slowly you do n't necessarily have to be able to read everything just try
you know like say over here a tweet from Miyake Kenta the voice actor of All Might
so yeah or like over here you can see
wow great content yeah anyway
he's so excited lucky for you
people in Los Angeles im so jealous look so good im hungry
he's so cute
this is kousuke kuwano sparkly boy's voice actor so here we have Kaji san's twitter
umm mostly news yeahhh you know sometimes im too lazy to read
these too but you know try your best good luck
xiao long bao now
look so good here we
have IshiKai's Twitter account looks like he hasn't tweeted for so long
but yeah you can look for more active artists I guess next thing I wanna
recommend is to follow Japanese artists from your favorite fandom like say from
heroaca cos usually they like to make like small comics and post them
on Twitter and you can try reading them it's fun you get content you know and
you get to learn Japanese as well it's the win-win situation like say for this
one from Touken Ranbu most of the time it's like simple Japanese so you can you know
just try your best as for learning grammar rules there's
this app called Tae Kim's learning Japanese it's very well designed well not well designed but
it's very detailed and guided it's pretty much like a textbook it's free
by the way you can just download it so like say you have lesson 1 hiragana katakana kanji
you have basic grammar expressing state of being it's pretty like i
haven't really used this because i actually learnt grammar in my Japanese
University class so I havent really look through this but looks pretty detailed
and well explained from what I've seen so far so you can use the you know it's
nices that it's in your phone so like if you're outside and you happen to have time
you can just you know sim through it a little next is like manga or like novels
if you're brave enough so I've been reading this novel to help me study
Japanese it's called genocidal organ
or gyakusatsu kikan because the other time it was airing and I went to watch it because
sakurai-san is there and then I decided to buy the novel I'm like half
regretting it because it's so difficult it's so high level but I was thinking
like say if I get through this then I think my Japanese will really improve a
lot so I think that's part of learning you know you cant always stay in your
comfort zone you have to keep challenging yourself like say you want
to start translating or writing stuff in Japanese like I know it's scary
you're afraid to know how bad you're at Japanese but then like if you don't try
then you wont ever get there you know the other thing I want to talk about
is motivation I think some of you mentioned this that you want to start
learning but you don't know how to you don't have the motivation to I wanna say
that it's a long process you're not gonna wake up the next day and be fluent
in Japanese you know don't think that you need to wait for motivation to
come to you I mean motivation is something that you
have to pull out of yourself like you have to start doing something to get
motivated at least that's what I think so if you're feeling unmotivated I say
you just sit down and just clean your table prepare everything and just start
writing anything it doesn't have to be like real studying and I feel like once
you get really on it will be easier it'll get easier I think and for listening I also
suggest a listening to a drama cds like here I have joker game drama cds
I don't know how many of you know joker game here but please watch it if you don't
know it's a great although I do suggest you start with like easier drama CDs like
usually high school theme usually are easier because they're more like daily
conversations and instead of like difficult subjects last thing I wanna recommend is
bilingual radio so basically in this radio like there's a male English speaker
and a Japanese female speaker they'll be discussing like news so basically the
female will be speaking in Japanese and the male be speaking in English so I used to
listen to that but things got a little busy but yeah I do
highly recommend that one and also if you worry about money and cost like that
like having to buying resources there's a lot of resources on the internet you
just have to look for them oh someone also asked about onyomi and kunyomi
this one is kind of complicated you'll have to get used to it there's no way to
like know you'll have to look it up because a lot of kanjis have a lot of different
readings so you'll just have to get used to it most of the time there's always
this one reading that's most commonly used
I cant really say that you have to memorize how did you start to think in Japanese I
don't think in Japanese I don't think im fluent enough to be thinking in
Japanese i still think in English most of the time what's a good way to understand
the sentence structure can try using the tae kim's leaning Japanese so you can
refer to that to practice it I do suggest you read a lot you'll notice like
sentence structures along the way you'll know if something is wrong a little explanation
on the honorifics would be great can you use the honorific kun with know because ive never seen it
if you havent notices iida always uses kun for his female classmates
like uraraka kun or yaoyorozu kun and isnt actually limited to male or boys you use it in
like a work setting or like bosses to their female employees for
example I heard that like in universities in Japan
female faculty members will be called using kun at the back by other faculty members so yeah
why does kaji use anata when talking to daiki i though it is only used for lovers or
someone you're very close with if you've taken Japanese lessons before
they actually tell you that anata is the most formal way to say you in order
of formality it'll be anata then kimi then omae but actually there are like certain
rules this you can't just use anata to anyone you see like you can't use this to
someone who is older than you actually kaji san only uses anata when
talking to daiki kun if he's like trying to call him out on his actions but like
generally he doesn't use it like he uses like if he's trying to get
daiki's opinion he would say like yamashita kun wa dou desu ka
or like daiki himself uses kaji san wa dou desu ka and also like if
you want to use you the safest bet is to use someone's name with the san at the back
so the reason why I think that memorizing isn't really efficient in
studying languages is because English isn't my first language I learnt
english since I was a little kid and I feel like the point where it really took off
like the point where I really started improving is when I started reading more
novels they were out of my comfort zone and also the school i went to everyone was
speaking English there so like I had to speak English and like it got easier
somewhere along the way like I don't remember ever having to like sit down
and practice or anything and even like the vocab words my teachers do teach
like English vocab words in classes but I feel like the most I got out off was from reading
novels instead of like the vocab words that my teachers teach like honestly I
don't remember anything so yeah I think that should be the same for like
learning Japanese so if youve learn a different language before I think that
you should try to remember how you learned it in the first place like even
for your first language it's not like you have to like if you're
memorizing something you're drawing it out of your brain it's like you're
reciting a language instead of like using it to communicate you know and I
remember i actually had to learn Chinese in school and like of course we had
to like memorise vocabs and like grammar rules and like have dictation test
every now and then like and I feel like it's like so ineffective I don't
remember anything I studied back then maybe like just basic stuff but like
like I haven't been using Chinese for so long like I don't really remember
anything except for like everyday stuff maybe and even then I don't really
practice that much I lose it so quickly I feel so yeah the key
is consistency you have to practice it every day so that you don't lose it so
yeah I guess my last tip is that try not to think that Japanese is really hard or
like it's something that is unattainable I guess like if you slowly work through
it you'll someday realize how far you've come since you started and also
like I tell people that I spend four to five years studying to get to this point
but like my way of studying it's like very very casual like I started learning
hiragana and katakana around last year of high school and even then it's like
only sometimes I would do like the song writing lyrics but only
sometimes like and it's like I didn't really practice that much because you
know last year of high school so busy with like exams and like university
applications and whatnot then an even after that well I try my best to spend
time in learning Japanese but like university is difficult I mean it's hard
like a lot of the courses have heavy workload and I don't always have time to
learn it so like sit down and learn so I just I guess that's how I came up with
like the fun way so like instead of like making time to like learn
I would instead used like my spare time where I like relax by watching
anime or like listening to radio or like seiyuu events and like while I chill and
relax I learned Japanese at the same time I guess also like the whole Twitter
thing you know when you wake up you look at your phone and there's Twitter
and theres like your japanese tweets and whatnot and also like i had to commute
using the train to uni yeah during that time i would like look through my phone
and learn japanese just make yourself like every a little time that you have
like even though it feels like you're not really learning anything but trust
me like it really does compile you'll
feel it but like you get there so yeah like I feel like if you really put
your heart into it you won't have to spend like four to five years four to
five years is pretty long yeah just do your best I know I say this
a lot but like do your best like cuz I know it's going to be kind of
difficult but I guess I'll end this here so yeah I guess that's pretty much it if
I can think of more ways that I use or things that I accidentally left on from
this video maybe I can make another one and if you have other questions yeah use
#detroitsmash on the comments section maybe I'll answer it in a future
video yeah if you've listened to this part
thank you for listening and good luck on your Japanese studying I hope this video
is helpful even if you're learning Japanese right now and you're using
most of the methods that I'm using right now hopefully you can at least take a
thing or two out of this so yeah thank you for listening and watching I hope
it's helpful so for the radio show if you haven't
noticed it yet I always put the links in the description so please check the
description box for links before asking in the comments and also the full radio
is around 30 minutes per episode new episodes every other Friday the most
recent episode was on june 15 so the next episode will be June 29 It'll be up
usually around 3:30 Japan time watch out for their tweet in the heroaca twitter account they
usually post it there like the links as well so yeah
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