/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I want to learn Japanese. Could a friendly person here on /jp/ point me to a way to self-learn?

[Anonymous No.]

>He thinks /jp/ is actually about japan

[Anonymous No.]

Go to a university

[Anonymous No.]

>>3993817

>university
>self-learn

[Anonymous No.]

Read books

[Anonymous No.]

ajatt.com

all the info is there

[Anonymous No.]

>>3993817

Are you aware that the level of proficiency you can achieve in a normal University is JLPT3 at best?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3993788
>self-learn

You'll give up after an hour, I guarantee it.

Like all the other ouiaboos.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3993930
Exactly - they need structure!

>>3993788
take this anons advice >>3993817

[Anonymous No.]

Start with smart.fm - learn hiragana and katakana, it's easy and only takes a couple weeks at the max. Just do the suggest amount of studying per day. Easy. There's even a nice easy kanji starter package there with about 40 of them. It's a nice introduction for understand how kanji works, and how it has different readings depending on what other kanji are next to eachother.

Do something all the time to build your vocabulary. I learn quite a bit from smart.fm and rosetta stone (rosetta stone is also useful for seeing how particles are used, rosetta stone is useless for standalone learning, it's only an aid IMO). I also learn a bunch from anime and learning kanji.

Lots of people have a great deal of success with flashcard programs like Anki. I have not began working with Anki yet. It is my ultimate goal to be using it to effectively remember kanji with the aid of in-text material (manga with hiragana above the kanji, in my case). For learning kanji I suggest a dictionary with the radicals in the front, and having it organized by the radicals, a book like New Nelson's. Using this you can look up kanji you don't know very quickly after a while by knowing what radicals they use.

I hope this helps, good luck :).

[Anonymous No.]

>>3993865
alljapaneseallthetime.com