掲示板 Forums - Whats your self study plan to learn japanese effeciently?

My plan...hm...is not to have any plan

I train myself to be adaptable and trying to study differently every time. I can drive and study at the same time, I like to do two things at once, not regularly and tedious. This kind of style might not fit many but I still believe that you can burn out quickly. The sign of mind is air if to compare, it's all about wit and swiftness if so to say so treat it like that and you'll study much quicker than you think. In some cases you need to outsmart yourself.

My vision is that I want to be a volunteer in Japan at some creative place like music/entertainment and that means that I need to know how to communicate and how to read, so my goals are way too flexible. After that of course I'll get my qualification much easier. Sooooo I can't advise my style but do keep in mind, restriction, pressure and structure can go against you.

I want you to enjoy renshuu and stay loyal to your goals

Grind vocab/grammar/kanji until I get to a point where I can start reading then just read lol. I've tried so many things but still unfortunately at a beginner level. Hopefully renshuu will change that.

I don't really have a plan either. I'm learning for fun, with the hope of traveling to Japan some day and being able to (somewhat) understand the language.

I just try to do a little bit each day. If it's a busy day, like around the Christmas holidays, I'd focus review instead of adding more unfamiliar material. I like having a solid foundation, so I do make physical note cards of vocabulary to study whenever I have a free minute or two. Plus, writing them out in the first place gives me some hiragana/katakana writing practice. Haven't quite gotten to kanji yet.

Learning for fun but also planning to travel to Japan within the next few years so hoping to be able to understand the language enough to get around and communicate without stressing too much. Mainly want to learn to read and write though. I use my language apps every day even if it's just a few minutes, but I learn best by repeating words and lessons over and over until I have them memorized. I have trouble learning too much new stuff at once otherwise. I want to get a workbook soon for practicing writing in person because writing and taking notes generally helps me remember things better. I watch anime so I try to listen for words I know and I also listen to Japanese music on youtube so I read the lyrics for songs that have them in the video as the song plays. I also play a mobile game that can only be played on a Japanese server so I try to read the text and listen when voiced scenes happen. Another goal is to be able to read and understand the game as I play instead of guessing and waiting for translations to come out since that can take some time. Just have to keep at it, and maybe someday I'll get to that point!

I love the question and this answer! I’ve been studying for almost a decade and the past few years I’ve taken this approach and I couple this with formal study when it’s fun (ie filling out Kanji worksheets, reading through vocab, taking an online YouTube grammar class, etc).

As a person who could not differentiate between hiragana and katakana 8 days ago, my plan is essentially to focus on those daily given that they feel very easy to just open up and do during any downtime in the day. It feels quick and easy and doesn't take so much focus as to take you out of your current situation.

Whenever I got time tho, I plan on focusing on grammar. Given that the grammar system I know currently is so different I would very much like to take my time and not be interrupted during the Learning of that. From what I have seen so far, you are going to passively get exposed to new words as the grammar progresses. I would imagine I would have to seek out new words myself eventually.

I currently don't know how Kanji is gonna fit into my studies, but my gut tells me to atheist get further into grammar before focusing it down.

Regardless, I would recommend active learning methods whenever possible such as finding or making mnemonics or writing down whatever you are studying. There is no "One Key Fits All" with learning sadly, so you are going to have to figure out what works for you.

I am realising I may be talking WAY over my head, given I have only been learning Japanese for 7 days now... But I was taught two languages in school apparently from my mother tongue, and I am just kinda barking out what I recall from that. [sorry for the wall of text! (;´∀｀) ]

I don't really have a "plan" yet because I am juggling my primary education with Japanese. I would like to obtain a N3 reading level within the next few years so I can play and comprehend video games, but my current short-term goal is to be able to read menus and the ingredients in food. (I purchase a lot of assorted Japanese snack boxes, so understanding what the contents are comes in handy.) At the moment, my studies consist of N5 and N4 materials (N4 kanji and N5 vocab/grammar,) food-related terms, and random words and kanji I picked up from video games.

In the very distant future, I want to move to (or retire to) Okinawa and live there full-time, and I hope to attain an N1 level of Japanese fluency prior to moving there.

(not an answer but rather a question)

Hey @Icepick87 what list did you mean here in renahuu? I’m interested in also going through the graded system since I find it would be a more normal and organic learning

If so how do you memorize Kanji and stuff, if any of you have any tips that'd be greatly appreciated

I generally make up a visual association so the kanji look like the words they're associated with (e.g. 食 looks like a place with a roof where you'd go to eat food) You may want to look up terms that use the kanji and study those to ensure you're actually reading the kanji enough to learn its common uses and pronunciation.

Following the example with 食, open the dictionary entry and scroll down to see a list of the words that include the kanji. Try to add a few words with different kanji readings to your learning schedule, but avoid the rare terms with uncommon readings. (If you can't tell which words are more common, look them up and see if they're in the N5-N3 tests and/or if they have a lot of user-written sentences, those are usually good indicators that a word is fairly common.)

A lot of learning comes down to daily repetition and frequent exposure to the language. Good luck!

My plan is to immerse myself in the language by studying with Renshuu and pimsleur and just having fun with it overall.