So, what resources are ya'll favorite to utilize outside of this website? - Feed Post by Kakka_rotSRL
So, what resources are ya'll favorite to utilize outside of this website?
Personally, I am a strong advocate of flash cards. I carry them with me everywhere, and have a very specific way of how I use them. For practicing 単語, it is my favorite. Lately, I have also spent a lot of time on r/learnjapanese. It is an Easter Basket of beginner, intermediate, and advance questions, but, you can come across some good stuff.
What are your favorites? Variety is the key to success, imo.
Personally, I am a strong advocate of flash cards. I carry them with me everywhere, and have a very specific way of how I use them. For practicing 単語, it is my favorite. Lately, I have also spent a lot of time on r/learnjapanese. It is an Easter Basket of beginner, intermediate, and advance questions, but, you can come across some good stuff.
What are your favorites? Variety is the key to success, imo.
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Same really, for now I'm just using this site, reddit and Tae Kim's guide to Japanese, I do visit lang8 on the occasion, I have a few kanji learning/writing apps on my phone and I use the Tangorin dictionary site to look up words Im not sure of (❛ᴗ❛人)✧ (you can also add words to a vocabulary list to summarise on later)
I have recently tried Anki but it's hella confusing... I just yesterday started on the pimsleurs 30 minute speaking lessons xD which help a little, probably a lot when I advance through the lessons.
Paper resources - Basic Kanji book, Minna no Nihongo I and II, few other books ranging from beginners to intermidiate level.
Electronic - most important: Mazec Japanese keyboard to hand draw kanji/hiragana/katakana on my phone. Then I use JED dictionary, AnkiDroid with all the Minna no Nihongo lessons (1-50), Kanji Sempai for kanjis and I do attendance on this site.
Best thing I ever had - proper lessons with Japanese sensei (all 50 lessons from Minnna no Nihongo book) and all visits to Japan.
I've got the Tuttle Kanji cards but apps are a huge improvement. I use Anki w/ Core 2000+6000 decks, Kanjibox and J-Sensei.
The 'Obenkyo' app for Andriod. Contains Kanji which can be taught by JLPT, school level pr my favorite, James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. It has great vocab and lists common words for each Kanji which I find extremely useful when reading. Grammar quizzes and even teaches the strokes for each Kanji. The App is a must have IMO.
Genki is a great book I use to learn :)
I personally would suggest Memrise as opposed to Anki - Anki leaves it open for you to determine how well you know a word, and Memrise uses the same type of system - that you see something more or less often depending on how well you know it - except that Memrise determines how well you did on the word by whether you could answer it right, whereas Anki asks you to make the distinction. I suppose I find it too easy to end up "well, I hit the wrong choice by accident!" or "I MEANT that".
I love my Denshi Jisho. Unfortunately the batteries Exploded inside my Denshi Jisho and I can't buy them in my country. I'll have to go back to Japan to get one
- Yeah Anki is a lot like traditional flash cards in that way. On Kanjibox it takes a whole lot of correct responses before it believes you know something. The Kana/Kanji draw addons are great too. A real Denshi Jisho is kinda outdated if you have a DS get Kanji Sonomama. But dictionary apps that are about $10 are just as good. It's alot easier and cheaper to study Japanese then it used to be.
- Genki is the standard book now for most Japanese classes, you'll have to buy it anyway if you're taking a class but if not you'll have to buy the answer book...I really recommend taking a class after a point. You can get past the 101 level on your own but it's pretty hard after that.
I mostly utilize digital and print resources. I have print resources than digital, because electronic screens of strain my eyes when it comes to reading.
For print, I have book on Japanese, books in the Japanese language, and ect. The most used resource for them is Reading and Writing Japanese Scripts, I am on second time working through that book.
For digital, I use my iPad, Nintendo DS, and computer. The most used apps on my iPad are imiwa?, Kanji Box, Human Japanese, and Human Japanese intermediate. For my DS, the most used game is Tadashi Kakitori Kun. For my computer, the most used website is youtube and Japanese Class.
My favorite would be Kanji Box or Human Japanese Series. I like using both of them a lot.
- Isn't genki completely written in Japanese??
I'm almost done with Genki II, that is what we use here at Ritsumeikan Daigaku. And Xiffy, he becomes all Japanese around chapter 17. It start weening you off in the 2nd book.
You guys are really making me wish I had a phone ._. I have a tablet, but I left my charger in America, and haven't been bothered to order a new one.
people have been posting about this 皆の日本語 but I don't really know what it is.- kida, look at a newer e-reader such as the Kindle Paperwhite. Reading from that is almost exactly the same as reading from a book in situations where ambient light is sufficient. The only downfall would be reading manga, as the Paperwhite doesn't do colour (not such a problem for Japanese manga, as opposed to comics).
- Minna no Nihongo is the other popular textbook series. You shouldn't worry about getting a class textbook until you take a class. If you learn the kana and vocab from this site and how to make basic sentences from Tae Kim or any self-teaching book you get at B&N, that's about the first half of Genki I.
There are some really helpful tips here. I'm gonna try some of them.
I use:
-Anki with mostly download cards, vocab and kanji.
-The Kanji draw app
-The tae kim app
-JDICT dictionary, where you can directly add cards to anki.
- Some other dict. I think it's called Japanese
- This site (duh)
-And sometimes YouTube and other internet stuff I find..- This site is nice, but once you get to a certain point most of what it quizzes you on is too easy, if you can understand radicals. I come here for a break from the more difficult stuff.
