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I don't want to discourage the author but, to be honest, what I see is nowhere close to what I figure would help me to learn Japanese. Questions I see on home p

by wst_ 6y ago

I don't want to discourage the author but, to be honest, what I see is nowhere close to what I figure would help me to learn Japanese. Questions I see on home page have nothing to do with learning - some about traveling around the country, some about translating "good morning", etc. True - I haven't registered. TBH though I don't see why should I. When it comes to learning any language, but Japanese in particular, I can't thank enough to the guys who created Mass Immersion Approach web page[0]. Their method is based on Stephen Krashen's "language acquisition through comprehensible input"[1] and... it just works. I've been learning Japanese in the classroom for around 2 years. I've been living in Japan for 5 years and my Japanese was rather mediocre. I've left Japan for a year and forgot a lot. Grammar is gone now, most sentence patterns are gone, mose kanji (and I've never been big on kanji) are gone. Now, after 4 months of MIA I am better then I've ever been. If you truly want to learn the language - read the page, watch their YT videos[2], just do yourself a favor and stop wasting your time. PS. I am not related. Just a happy learner. [0] https://massimmersionapproach.com/ https://massimmersionapproach.com/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug [2] https://www.youtube.com/c/MATTvsJapan/ https://www.youtube.com/c/MATTvsJapan/

0xfaded 6y ago
I was near native level 5 years ago. I'd additionally watched all the TV shows, the kids shows, read the newspapers and important books, the assigned school poetry. I even memorized the periodic table and read a translation of Feynmans lectures. People honestly thought I was born in Japan. Five years later, I would struggle to have a conversation about anything consequential. I started learning when I was 19, so I guess too old to have it stick. Funnily though, I can still read a good amount.
- lunchables 6y ago
  Reading is so much easier than speaking for me. Grammatically it's so different, and there is so much conjugation that I am very, very slow to put sentences together when speaking. But reading or understanding spoken japanese? No problem, instantly get it, no translation to english required in my head.

by wst_ 6y ago

0xfaded 6y ago

I was near native level 5 years ago. I'd additionally watched all the TV shows, the kids shows, read the newspapers and important books, the assigned school poetry. I even memorized the periodic table and read a translation of Feynmans lectures. People honestly thought I was born in Japan. Five years later, I would struggle to have a conversation about anything consequential. I started learning when I was 19, so I guess too old to have it stick. Funnily though, I can still read a good amount.

lunchables 6y ago
Reading is so much easier than speaking for me. Grammatically it's so different, and there is so much conjugation that I am very, very slow to put sentences together when speaking. But reading or understanding spoken japanese? No problem, instantly get it, no translation to english required in my head.