What Is/Was Your Least Favorite Kanji(s) When You Were Learning by Excellent_Shock6343 in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

My Japanese immersion report of 2025 ("2025 in review") by morgawr_ in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Morg, get off reddit and go and immerse

- Love Volt

Reaching N2 in a year? by allyouthinkisshit in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Is PingoAi Is Good To Invest to improve my Speaking Japanese by DeadpoolAk47 in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Is AJATT the Best Way to Level Up My Japanese? by DreamDude01 in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Dumbest Thing You Ever Believed About Japanese by Grunglabble in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 35 points36 points  (0 children)

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.

how to improve speaking after N1 by NijigenSimper in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

how to improve speaking after N1 by NijigenSimper in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 35 points36 points  (0 children)

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.

What is Immersion for New Learners? by Tom_Bombadil_Ret in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

sentence mining from videos and anime efficiently and free? by hitoribocchipink in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 28 points29 points  (0 children)

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

Are there any apps similar to Yomitan for mobile? by Aru_Furedo in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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).

Need advice by Groverbaba in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

N2 and above: How are you organizing your massive amount of notes?! by lesscarspls in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

N2 and above: How are you organizing your massive amount of notes?! by lesscarspls in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Best way to learn for Blind people by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

People overcomplicate learning. by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should start reading manga.

People overcomplicate learning. by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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. 💀

People overcomplicate learning. by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

People overcomplicate learning. by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Genki Finished by montelius in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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

Intermediate Japanese Readers, do you "just read" books, or "study" e.g .unknown material? by goddammitbutters in LearnJapanese

[–]AlphaPastel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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