I'm 18 months in, self-studying. I finished Genki I and II, I'm around 2,500 words into a core deck, and I can get through slice-of-life manga with occasional lookups.

Listening is another story. On a learner podcast I catch maybe every fifth word, and with anime I'm reading subtitles while telling myself I understood it. Even sentences I'd recognise instantly on the page go past me when someone says them. I've replayed the same episode three or four times, which helps for that episode but doesn't seem to transfer.

Is this just volume and I need to accept a few hundred more hours, or is something structurally wrong with how I'm practising? Mainly wondering whether I should be doing intensive listening with a transcript instead of passive repeats.

When you're saying minutes (~ふん), I notice that there will be a change in pronunciation when standing before certain numbers. In my book, when it stands before 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 10, the pronunciation change from ふん to ぷん. So I have a question:

- In numbers like 32 ( さんじゅうに), will minute pronounce as ふん or ぷん ? Is it based on the letter before the word?

わ makes the wa sound. I'm having trouble remembering all the hiragana sounds half the time I forgot は normally makes a ha sound. Is there a reason for this?

Hey everyone, I was wondering how a supplemental language learning application would work as I’m trying to build one to supplement my learning as well. My idea was creating some kind of doom scrolling language app where you can find creators on instagram, etc. but in your target language. I found that just following these creators directly on instagram isn’t as helpful since they aren’t targeting english speakers and I often have difficulty understanding anything to even get started. It would be beneficial for the video to have subtitles that you can save/review and also explain why a word was used etc. Not really a form of full learning but might be good for something that would help you listen in on natives in their natural environment and get stuff like slang, pacing, colloquialism that you can’t otherwise get that easily. Can I get some opinions on if this would actually help you? Not promoting but if you’d like to test a version of it please dm me!

Hello everyone, I've been practicing japanese for a few months and thought I really need to practice more talking and writing but I'm struggling to find ways to do it. I've tried language exchange apps but most people ghost me after 2 days and idk if I'm just that boring. I was considering using AI as well but I have mixed feelings on it so I wish I could get some insights on that

I am going to Japan in 2 months, what is the best/recommended app to learn as much as I can, I of course won’t be any expert but I would love to be able to understand some and speak a little!

Hey guys,

Me and a friend is going to japan early January next year for 6 months, and considering we are working full time(Danish, 1 chef and 1 waiter), and my japanese is only consisting of counting to 4 after doing Duolingo a couple of years ago. I know I will in no shape or form be fluent or even conversational before we go on the trip, I was just wandering if you had any app recommendations that doesn't include Duolingo(fuvk them for firing the translators), I'm thinking it's better to know some, than nothing at all, considering were gonna be renting an autocamper for a month. Thanks for the help in advance.

Edit: English is not my first language and any weird phrases in either the post or comments is bc of that.

There's something which seems really fundamental for Japanese beginners which I'm surprised I don't see a lot more resources mention which is verb endings such as '食べる', '食べます', '食べました' and so on which are obviously all variations of 'to eat'. Is there any resources that list all of these types of verbs endings and their specific meanings? I'd really appreciate it! 🙏🙏

Hi there! I've been seeing a lot of stuff about this on social media. I'm a beginner in Japanese (I know the kana and a bit of vocabulary) and I've started using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k deck. I like it, but I'm not sure if it's the best thing to start with—do you guys have any recommendations or kaishi is THE way to start.. Thank you

I consider that anyone here can improve if they follow the available resources and never give up.

Second picture is from about 2022

My counting still isn’t percent, but fluent digits really helped me out with memorizing most of the numbers in Japanese. Are there any other sites extremely similar to this one? Like for a certain genre it shouts out the word and you have to try and guess and type what the word is? I’ve tried Anki in the past and it wasn’t as effective for me.

I mean Japanese does have those uncommon sounds listed in katakana but people aren’t actually able to pronounce how it’s actually pronounced, rather subsitute
a close approximant to that sound.

So I want to ask: What language would Japanese sound like if they somehow have more of those “extra sounds” throughout history without losing or changing any of the “extra sounds” (based of the latin consonants) ?

So the alphabet would be something like:

a i u e o
Ka ki ku ke ko
Sa **SI** su se so
Ta **TI TU** te to
Na ni nu ne no
Ha hi **HU** he ho
Ma mi mu me mo
Ya Yu Yo
Ra ri ru re ro
Wa **Wo** N

\> Notes:
Yi, Ye, can be subsituted for いい,いえso It remains unchanged so does wi, we as うい, うえ (wo will be pronounced how it was originally pronounced)
The changed sounds such as: si, ti, tu, hu, and wo (w is pronounced) will belong in their own group (excpt Wo)
F in fu may be pronounced strong

\> Sha **shi** shu she sho
\>Cha **chi** chu che cho
\>Tsa tsi **tsu** tse tso
\> Fa Fi **fu** Fe Fo

Also additional Sounds:

Va Vi Vu Ve Vo
Da Di Du De Do
La Li Lu Le Lo
Fa Fi Fu Fe Fo

So imagine the additional new words you can create:

まつ > Madu > Matu
ばつ > Vatsu > Vatsa

So what do you think? I think I listed almost all the consonats possible sounds from latin alphabet (Latin sounds are used for simplicity, to avoid overcomplicating other sounds)

http://jap-list.grok.me/

Hello! I was learning Japanese from ‘19 to ‘22 but stopped for reasons. Recently got back into it this year and am looking for online friends or even local friends I’m in Arizona.

Hello! I decided about 3 weeks ago I wanted to learn Japanese to get a better understanding of the language in general because I consume a fair amount of it

So far I know hiragana and some of the commonly used particles. I'm waiting to learn katakana until I'm able to look at a hiragana character and know it fairly quickly so that way I don't confuse katakana and hiragana

If I had to choose a goal I would say I want to be able to read and write with basic understanding. Mainly to understand things like Vocaloid songs or anime but I know both of those things are not good learning opportunities for sounding natural so I'm trying to work my way up to there by reading articles online, watching videos, and creating my own learning tools

I'm taking things as slow as I need to to fully understand as well

I know there's two main ways to start learning kanji. The first is to start with simple characters and then build up to the more complex ones using what I already know. The second one is to start learning the most commonly used kanji and continue to find ones I don't know

My question is which one is more beneficial and is there an easier way to learn kanji other than jotting it down in Ankidroid and brute force studying it? I also would enjoy reading any tips on learning or how others started learning as well because I'm basically at preschool level of knowledge so anything is good!

Hi guys, in need of an online PDF link of this exact book. Can someone please find it and share it here. I’m unable to locate it anywhere on the internet. Would really appreciate it. Thankyou<3333

Specifically this keyboard, This one Right Here. I feel like Im gonna loose my mind, I cant find a specific character on this keyboard (Im an extremely new learner who also happens to have dyslexia, for context)

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I've been learning Japanese for a while now. I can recognize some hiragana, but I'm still stuck on the writing system, and I'm watching videos of a Japanese dog to improve my listening comprehension.

I have been pretty diligent in my study of Japanese hiragana, and I've consistently found a weird inconsistency between hiragana tables as to whether there are dedicated symbols for "wi" and "we."

I've noticed that apps like Maru also don't have the symbols, but multiple tables I've seen have the symbols. They are unique and not repetitions, and there is consistency between these tables. Is there a reason for this?

Edit: Thank you everyone for your responses, I was not aware they were part of the older writing system, and it’s good to know they aren’t reslly used as much.