How To Learn Japanese In The Easiest Ways – Japanese Learning Tips From A Native Polyglot 🇯🇵

how can I learn Japanese is literally where should I start should I learn hiragana Katakana kanji first how to pronounce Japanese words why is Japanese so complicated I don't know anything about kanji those are the most common things that I hear about learning Japanese as a native speaker so in today's video I will explain to you guys how to learn Japanese in easiest way you might be thinking why would I listen to a native speaker's advice like she'd grew up in Japan right the thing is yes I am half Japanese however I didn't grow up in Japan so I wasn't really surrounded by people who were talking Japanese always so as a kid who grew up outside of Japan I needed to make sure that I put the work in so that I can learn Japanese and so that I will be able to speak Japanese so I know the path that everyone is going right now and the struggles and maybe the problems that you're facing So today we're gonna cover all of the parts when it comes to learning Japanese to help you out so when it comes to learning the language always the first thing that you need to do is defining your goal because depending on your goal the path that you're going to follow is going to be really different if you're learning Japanese only to communicate with Japanese speakers or maybe with family members there is no necessity for you to learn kanji you know learn thousands of countries maybe because in a conversation you don't write kanji to other person right so the parts that you're going to be focusing will be speaking and listening skills because you just want to communicate or if you're learning Japanese only to understand anime which is the best thing in the world your skills you don't necessarily have to speaking skills your skills need to be solidly focused on listening because you're watching anime and you just want to understand what they're saying and if with the time if your goal changes you can change your approach too or let's say if you're learning Japanese for business purposes you know listening speaking and also maybe writing skills might be important for you so before starting anything you need to have a clear understanding why you are doing that thing because also language learning is a very long journey and when you lose your motivation which is very likely to happen and it's gonna happen you're gonna have days where you have no motivation but you need to do the thing in order to improve right so in those days you need to remember your goal so goal setting is the most important thing when starting a language Journey so please post this video and identify your goal when it comes to learning Japanese okay so after defining your goal we need to focus on each area depending on your goal let's say if you're learning Japanese for watching anime I'm gonna focus on listening so for listening skills the thing that you need to do is doing an enormous amount of input think about babies when they're growing up do you think babies open like a grammar book and study vocabularies and do Anki flashcards to learn a language no they're surrounded by people who speak that language and they keep talking to that baby so as a baby you do an enormous amount of input in order to learn a language so as an adult we're gonna also do the same thing if you want to learn Japanese you're going to do enormous amount of inputs in a day at the beginning you might be thinking if I don't know any more calories what is meaning of doing an enormous amount of input of course we're gonna study vocabularies that is another part however if you have ever lived in a foreign country for over the couple of months when the words are repeated and even though you don't know the meaning of it and if you if you have heard them repeatedly using in a sentence you know because people talk with mimics and gestures you kind of start to understand what that word means even though you didn't Google it so I guess we're gonna study what calories that's another part but every day we need to make sure that we do an enormous amount of input like watching YouTube videos watching anime or maybe listening to Japanese songs Japanese dramas Japanese news whatever content you want to consume make sure that every day you consume Japanese content when it comes to learning vocabulary few things use science-based study methods that you need to use are space repetition and active recall if you're into productivity I'm sure that you know about this but let me remind you about that active recall is when you're trying to remember something so when you're actively recalling something from your brain you are tend to learn better so let's say there is an image of a let's say book and you're trying to remember book in Japanese which is home so when you have a flash card showing you a book and when you're actively trying to recall that information basically ties Japanese book home image of book in your brain this is active recall one of the best ways that you can do is using much Mochi mucho muchiab is an amazing Japanese learning app we have collaborated multiple times in the past and you guys tend to really enjoy it in much much app you can basically study with flashcards which they have made and the great thing about mochimochi is that they have categorized the vocabularies so if you want to learn about a specific topic you can go through much Mochi you select a specific category and learn about those vocabularies language learning is all about efficiency if you ever want to learn vocabulary is about certain topic you don't necessarily need to learn all of the vocabularies in Japanese just need to learn the vocabulary is that you particularly need much is really handful with this and another thing is space repetition so what is space repetition if you know how our memories work basically you need to repeat the information in order to Signal your brain that this is a very important information for example you don't forget your name right because it is repeatedly reminded course of your life multiple times so that information is very important your brain already understood that and when it comes to learning a vocabulary you need to make sure that your brain knows that you shouldn't forget this so what we're gonna do we're gonna study vocabulary so the flashcards for a course of time with strikes in between and kind of like calculating this trying to understand when to study what is a very long process but much much it does it for you there is a golden time feature in much Mochi it reminds you to study the words but based on your learning history much much you will calculate the golden time to revise this word so the perfect timing to revise that word in order to put it in your long-term memory with the time it will put it into your long-term memory when it comes to listening and speaking skills input also learning vocabularies is very important if you you want to master your speaking Horton think is going to be doing a practice this this and practice 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