Keeping fluent in Japanese

[Anonymous No.]

For those of you that know Japanese or are learning Japanese, how do you try to keep fluent in your daily lives? I'm learning Japanese in college and I've finished memorizing katakana, so I can read sentences coherently except for when there is kanji with no hiragana superscript.

[Anonymous No.]

I learned japanese so I could play Japanese video games. I now play those video games. Question why you're learning it if you're not going to use it. If you have no reason, just pass your classes and forget it.

[Anonymous No.]

I am doing ajatt so maintaining my japanese is not a problem at all.
You should check it out too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
Memorizing Katakana/Hiragana is the easiest part. I learned Arabic script in a week years ago and I can still read it despite never reviewing it. Once you properly learn to read+write the Kana it will stick with you forever. I imagine Kanji functions the same and will probably make words easier to remember compared to other languages because you'll have the words associated with a unique character. You're gonna follow two paths concurrently now.

1. Learn Kanji, start with the most common stuff. This is gonna take a while.
2. Memorize common phrases/verbs/and adjectives - - - > Understand the Grammer/Syntax- - - > Start consooming Japanese media. Use Japanese subtitles. Try to memorize and understand all the lines in an episode. You can also memorize and recite pages in a book. Honestly you have to get creative at this step but you want to immerse yourself in the language. Think of how children learn to speak. School is good but alone it's not enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>26941624
Where's a good place to watch raw anime?

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
>how do you try to keep fluent in your daily lives?
By using the language, retard. If aren't going to use it, there's no point in learning it in the first place.
>I'm learning Japanese in college
lel
>>26981796
Lurk for two years before posting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
You keep using it. Reading is fun.

>>26981796
Most torrented anime these days is soft subs so even if you download it subbed you can just turn them off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>26981991
Unhelpful

>>26982035
Thank you!

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
You have to now learn vocab and grammar. There are two general threads for learning on this board and /int/

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
Reading raw light novels and manga

[Anonymous No.]

>>26938985
read the guide - itazuraneko.neocities.org

[Anonymous No.]

Jesus fuck, OP I was your subject and thought you learned at least some basics.

But you learned shit. You have nothing to upkeep. And you'll fail.

[Anonymous No.]

I think it is important to be interested and continue to use second language acquisition. It's like "breathing".
By the way, I don't understand English at all, so please forgive me if I don't understand it well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>27006382
it sounds like he just started a few days ago calm the fuck down