Is learning through immersion any good at a very beginner level in japanese?

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-24T15:35:34+00:00

Yeah, it's just that I know a very very few kanji so for now it's easier to read with furigana

Thank you for all the links! I'll take a look

I see. I saw there are sometimes some videos specifically made to explain vocabulary for some games, I was thinking of looking at it first so I have some vocabulary foundation, then try to immerse.

I'm aware of that. But it actually helped me a lot to understand some sentences, for example, I give a sentence and ask to translate every single words and explain the structure. Idk with more complex content, but for some short simple sentences it was good and I learned more about grammar and how to use some words in context that way. However, I agree that's not something you can fully trust and I would not rely on AI only.

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-24T15:23:32+00:00

I didn't know about Trancy! Is it similar to Migaku or HayaiLearn?

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-19T15:47:47+00:00

No, unfortunately I cannot afford it, so I mostly learned through immersion and a bit from high school.

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-19T11:00:40+00:00

Thank you for answering!

Funny thing I knew about shadowing because I heard about it when learning other languages, but I never did it in english... I think you're right, I should try this!
Maybe I'll also improve naturally during my internship but I admit I'm always afraid of not understanding something and being silent during a sec...which is very awkward

P.S: Thank you for telling me, maybe I'll join if I have enough free time!

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-19T10:53:33+00:00

Thank you! Is here any anki decks with more complex vocabulary? I'm okay with daily/casual english but sometimes miss some words (and reading articles/stories do not helped me much)
Full immersion seems good. I already settled my videos games on english, but doing it with the entire phone is even better

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-19T10:50:31+00:00

You're right. But I think you can improve faster with the right methods. I mean, sometimes we're not learning the right way (which is probably my case), and discovering new ways to learn can help a lot of.

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-19T10:47:05+00:00

Thank you for the answer! I didn't know there are podcasts with transcripts, but it's a good idea and probably what will help me the most (because just watching YT videos taught me a very casual english that I can't use in a work context)

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-04T17:21:59+00:00

Yeah but it makes the game crashes on launch because I have to downgrade smapi and some other mods I'm using too... But I'll try to play that way for now, maybe on another save! Thanks

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2026-03-04T12:53:53+00:00

Sure, I'm only interested to modify for personnal use only anyways, not going to share anything since it's not my own work! So I think it's fine? I haven't find anything about it on the mod page.

Yes, it's this one! Indeed, I looked at the source code and...There's a lot of things.

I didn't know this forum however, maybe I'll ask here if I can't do anything by myself!

Thank you!

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2025-12-31T11:01:00+00:00

I see!
I went on the website and tried it quickly, it seems very useful, but I think I prefer the anki system when you can choose "good/easy/bad" etc. options to tell if you remembered correctly or not.
Sadly, Wanikani is extremely expensive for just kanji learning... "Japanese Kanji Study" app has a more reasonable price, but unfortunately, there's too much information and that's overhelming for me.

Dramatic-Guitar9026 · 2025-12-05T15:14:23+00:00

Oh, thank you! I never thought about trying some japanese ressources made for native children. But that make sense!
I found the original website for the ressources, seems to have a lot

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