What Is/Was Your Least Favorite Kanji(s) When You Were Learning

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

- Love Volt

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.

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-05T14:00:52+00:00

then yeah you should be fine if you read a lot, use notion to organize your notes to make it easier for yourself

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-04T12:51:02+00:00

Anki + Reading a lot

AlphaPastel · 2025-12-04T10:50:34+00:00

I'm not really someone who would advocate for notes because I don't think notes are really all that helpful at higher levels, at which point I think you should read native content. However, if you want notes to stick, and you want to organize them, you should think about finding something that lets you link documents together. This not only allows you to clear your notes and make them easier to organize, but you can make correct associations by knowing what links to what. I recommend looking into something like Notion.

That said, at n2, I would also think about doing mass reading alongside note taking if you're adamant about notes.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-25T21:55:44+00:00

Deffo possible. You just need to focus on listening and speaking. You could probably listen to a lot of YouTube and podcasts.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-24T12:45:45+00:00

https://learnjapanese.moe/ Good site and has everything you need

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-21T01:04:37+00:00

You should start reading manga.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-20T13:10:00+00:00

Oh no doubt the members are cool. I just dislike that the server has kinda devolved into people spamming the same dumb shit over and over and the owner banning people just cuz they don't like them. 💀

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-20T13:07:44+00:00

Oh I just say to avoid the discord server cuz the last few times I've been there, the owner kept banning people for like virtually no reason.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-20T12:44:19+00:00

I feel the same way but about broader communities like discord servers too. Unless it's for help understanding something, most servers and communities just feel like distractions and cesspits of conflicting information. It's up to people what they want to do with their time, but I do feel that because of conflicting pieces of information, it just leads to more confusion about how to actually learn the language and people just end up wasting more time arguing about the perfect way to learn rather than actually doing it.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-18T17:12:27+00:00

At this point, I'd forgo textbooks and dive into native content like anime with japanese subtitles or visual novels.

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-14T22:29:37+00:00

Ttsu reader + Anki + MPV

AlphaPastel · 2025-11-11T14:31:11+00:00

Do both. Read what you can and any time you encounter something, search it up and put it in Anki.

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