Dear Japanese learners can you, pretty please, give me some advice for: how to get fluent in… - Feed Post by MariChan5

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  smexytab

  Watch Dramas, music, or the News. Listing is the BEST way to really understand and comprehend on how their talking style works!

  July 8, 2015 at 4:56am
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  beee_17

  Learn at least all the 常用漢字. Install rikaichan (or rikaikun). Search on the internet for japanese blogs, texts, stories. Watch dramas and anime with japanese subtitles. Basically, breathe japanese :P

  July 8, 2015 at 5:42am
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  Arachkid

  The person asked how to get fluent in reading Japanese, I'm really not sure how watching or listening is going to help them in this task...? Find elementary level stuff to read online, move from there. Try readmylevel - it's a blog dedicated to finding you stuff that would be easy for you to read.

  July 8, 2015 at 8:06am
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  KenjiSama

  Well, learning kanji and kana is a must.... Then reading Manga. (Out loud) Also lots of vocabulary.....

  July 8, 2015 at 10:43am
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  Ineedaname

  @Arachkid can you please provide a link to readmylevel blog?

  July 8, 2015 at 3:22pm
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  kseniakagan

  Japanese graded readers are good- they have audio as well - you can download them through torrents (like KAT.cr). Also, I use subs2srs to create decks from anime and dorama. Also, there is Japanese reading practice on youtube http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPSRkixPA4l11u10UpL-hQ
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2db_dT26gVw
  http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6VLRYsa-qdR3iwVYaRicQ
  
  Visual Novels (VNs) in Japanese with various add-ons are a real help\
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YzmdDugqrA&list=PLVx3t9GT0R6pDOaW3wTFJrcwQ4MTf3Cao
  
  
  http://www.bauddha.net/heart_spring/index.html
  http://www.nippontalk.com/en
  https://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/beginner-level/
  http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/aesop/
  http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/jap/index.html
  
  There are also some books available like Reading Japanese with a smile, Read Japanese Today, etc.
  
  

  July 8, 2015 at 6:21pm
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  mog86uk

  @kseniakagan, Wow, that nippontalk.com site is very neat for blog style Japanese reading practice. I hadn't seen that site before. Thanks for mentioning it. ^^

  July 8, 2015 at 10:19pm
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  kseniakagan

  share your favorites, too - I'm still looking for more beginner/intermediate reading practice

  July 9, 2015 at 12:43am
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  Arachkid

  My apologies - apparently it is read YOUR level - http://readyourlevel.jamesknelson.com/

  July 9, 2015 at 8:16am
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  mog86uk

  I don't really do much reading in Japanese. I've used hukumusume and chokochoko a few times before, but I don't use them regularly. There are a couple of other sites similar to these which I like:
  
  http://www.kankomie.or.jp/mMukashi/
  This one is similar to hukumusume. The story is shown in a flash animation which has decent audio. You will probably need to use your browser's zoom function to make the animation big enough to read the text.
  
  http://language.tiu.ac.jp/materials/
  This site is really good in that you can click on any word and see its English definition. The only problem is that the words are underlined links, which makes it awkward to read. However, I use the "Stylish" extension on Chrome/Firefox to change the style of the links to black and not underlined.
  
  If you want to use Stylish to do this, then create a style and paste the following two lines of code:
  
  a[target=dic] {color: black; text-decoration: none;}
  a[target=dic]:hover {color: #3399FF;}
  
  And then set to apply to:
  
  URLs starting with: http://language.tiu.ac.jp/materials/
  
  After saving, this style will automatically load each on anything you read on that site. If I didn't have Stylish to fix this, then I probably wouldn't use that great site.. ^^

  July 9, 2015 at 8:52am
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  kseniakagan

  many thanks!!!

  July 9, 2015 at 5:34pm
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  MariChan5

  Thank you very much! You guys are awesome, this will definitely help me. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

  July 10, 2015 at 7:05pm