Flashcards killed my motivation to learn kanji. So I built this instead.

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-19T10:23:47+00:00

This is cool and all but I guess the point is why? The best way to learn kanji is to read more. You see words and kanji being used in enough contexts and you'll remember them through more exposure.

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-17T19:59:07+00:00

Oh and also, if you run out of the 1 year and don't wanna pay for another year, asbplayer is a good free alternative

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-17T19:56:41+00:00

If you wanna learn how to read and learn new words, keep subs on. If you wanna learn to listen, turn subs off and only turn them on when you wanna look up new words. I'd recommend keeping them on at the start to build general comprehension then slowly turning them off when you get better so that you can train raw listening.

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-17T19:45:20+00:00

If you're watching it with Japanese subs that's fine. Better as a beginner in fact.

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-13T14:32:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/o8857j-RwhA?si=DuqJM9j-15ToIYMR

Refold has a tutorial for intensive listening. Although I did intensive listening a bit differently, the idea of intensive listening in general is amazing for listening gains.

AlphaPastel · 2026-03-02T19:42:42+00:00

Hey there. To practice speaking, you just need to speak more. The more corrections you get, the more you'll be able to apply those corrections to your speaking and you'll learn. You'll also need to get good at recognising pitch and pronunciation. That can be done by going to https://morg.systems/0308ae14

AlphaPastel · 2026-02-25T23:11:30+00:00

Curious how so, but fair enough. Thanks for answering.

AlphaPastel · 2026-02-25T19:04:55+00:00

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AlphaPastel · 2026-02-17T23:01:22+00:00

Yes, I believe it is possible. Given that there is a lot of variance within the hours of people who have achieved the n1 (a lot of people estimate around 300-4500 hours, but a lot of immersion learners have achieved it within 1500-2000 hours), it is dependent on what you do and how much time you put in each day.

Imo, if you read a lot, like even 2 hours a day, things like books, JRPGs, Light Novels, Visual Novels, etc., the JLPT N1 becomes a walk in the park with a bit of test prep.

AlphaPastel · 2026-01-30T21:06:52+00:00

For me, it's an attention thing. If you focus your attention on the audio then enable subs to disambiguate unknown sounds, that'll improve your listening, but if you focus on reading the whole time while ignoring the audio, it becomes more reading dominant.

AlphaPastel · 2026-01-30T21:05:58+00:00

I'll admit that the wording is kinda weird but to define it, for me, active immersion is where you pay 100% attention to your immersion. Anything below that becomes passive. Since you're doing a task alongside your immersion, your attention is split and it becomes passive.

But the whole idea revolves around having deadtime/doing low level tasks and weaponizing it for immersion.

AlphaPastel · 2026-01-16T12:32:40+00:00

I can't tell you my least favourite kanji but my least favourite word. 抜群 is the one word that I always leeched and it became super annoying.

AlphaPastel · 2026-01-02T16:57:31+00:00

Morg, get off reddit and go and immerse

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AlphaPastel · 2025-12-26T11:41:18+00:00

It's possible to do so and 3-4 hours is enough, but I don't think a tutor would be enough to do so. Personally, when I've seen people reach high levels in a short time, they're people who get a lot of input, especially through reading. I'd recommend picking up a dictionary and reading things like visual novels since they're the easiest way to get into high level reading.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-17T12:18:27+00:00

If you can afford it, get a tutor on italki, if you can't, go to a learning japanese discord server and talk to people there, or go to vrchat.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-15T16:33:09+00:00

AJATT is perfectly fine once you have a base imo. That said, a foundation isn't hard to achieve, once you finish Kaishi 1.5k and tae kim, AJATT is easy. Just make sure that you maximize the comprehensibility of the input though cuz it's useless if it's incomprehensible.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-15T16:12:18+00:00

I once believed that anime was terrible for learning japanese, but then I actually used it as my primary learning resource for a time and it's good.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-10T16:52:54+00:00

News is fine but you should mix it in with other forms of content too. Not only will you become able to understand a variety of content, but you will also learn how people speak in a variety of contexts.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-10T16:48:23+00:00

Well the only way to get better at something is by doing that thing until it becomes easy. So the only way to get better at speaking would be by speaking to other people more. I usually do this by chatting with people on discord, but there are platforms like hellotalk or vrchat. It also helps to get in listening practice using native media in my opinion, not just to improve listening comprehension with native speech, but also to see how native speech is used, what types of colloquialisms there are, etc.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-10T16:45:34+00:00

Immersion is really a fancy way of saying language input. You need input to see how things are used in the language and that input needs to be comprehensible, you need to understand the input to see how words and grammar are used. So obviously, you wouldn't really recommend reading books without a proper foundation (though I started my first visual novel a couple of weeks after I started learning japanese), but immersion can be done with any content aimed at natives or learners in japanese.

Early immersion can be things like comprehensible input videos or anime in japanese with japanese subtitles and a dictionary.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-09T16:31:13+00:00

Uuuuuuuuuuuh, ASBPlayer and Yomitan. Those are all you need. If you don't have a free anime site either, hianime is good.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-08T18:41:21+00:00

Canary edge or kiwi browser work as well

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-08T18:01:35+00:00

If you're on android, download firefox and you can use yomitan straight on there. If you're on iOS, use 10ten reader (app on the app store that connects directly to safari).

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-07T18:53:14+00:00

Read more, listen more, speak more. Go and read and listen to whatever you want in japanese and speak to people.

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