こんにちは
My journey so far with Japanese, and future plans?
皆さん、こんにちは！
Honestly, I haven’t really felt like I’ve been improving much with each of my blog posts, but I guess this sort of thing takes time. Anyways, I’d like to talk about my goal of learning Japanese, and how it’s going so far.
Why learn Japanese?
A weeb is a person who is interested in anime and Japanese culture.
I am going to Japan on my next summer vacation though, less than ten months from now. I guess this counts as a valid reason? My parents are expecting me to be the translator, so…
What I’ve done in terms of learning the language
Just for a bit of context, I’ve probably been watching anime for over 4 years at this point in time. Even while watching with subtitles, I’ve been able to pick up the native accent and the general meanings of a few words.
“Do you really think that watching anime with subtitles even remotely counts as learning Japanese? lmao” - some random people cough cough
No, watching anime has not gotten me to fluency in any shape or form. Before I started studying, I wasn’t even at N51. I was able to learn to pronounce words correctly though (being a native Chinese speaker, Japanese pitch accent was fairly simple to pick up). Anyways, here are the steps that I’ve taken up till this point:
- Learning the kana: I simply created my own Anki deck with mnemonics to remember each character.
- Core 2k: An Anki deck of the top 2000 most common Japanese words. (Still working on this)
- Minimal immersion: I’ve been watching Japanese vtubers and Japanese podcasts here and there.
My Japanese strategy plan
Honestly, I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time simply learning how to learn Japanese, so at this point I’m pretty sure I just need to stick to something and keep at it. I’m aiming to reach at least N21, although I’m not sure about how realistic that is. Anyways, I’d like to wrap this up quickly so I can go do my homework, so here goes nothing:
- Finish Core 2k
- Start immersing 24/7
- Read Japanese light novels w/ Yomitan
- Sentence mining?
- Vrchat to talk to Japanese people
さよなら！
Anyways I’d really like to continue talking about some things, but I really need to do my homework now…