Emeric
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- 17 Jan 2015
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Hello, everyone !
This is my first post, I hope I'm in the right section.
I've been learning japanese for almost two years now, and I'm studying at home. I've started with free lessons on a french website (because I'm french ), where I learned the very very basic sentence structures and vocabulary. After, I bought a book written by Kunio Kuwae (I think this book is only available in french). There were a lot of dialogues for each lessons (+ audio for all dialogues), and texts with the vocabulary learned in the lesson. When I finished it, I bought Nihongo so Matome N3 (vocab and grammar). I also finished them 3 months ago.
Meanwhile, because I really like Jmusic, I've started to read blog entries of my favourite bands (a lot are translated by fans, so I could check if I understood its correctly or not). For several months, I also read NHK easy. I listen to japanese radio (FM Jaga) more for fun than "learning" because I didn't make any listening improvement by doing passive listening.
Two months ago, I decided to watch drama for my listening skills (I didn't work it actively until now). I watched "Ohitorisama". I used the japanese subs and the english ones. What I did is this : I watched the episode with japanese subs and when I didn't understand something, I looked at the translation. After each episode, I added the vocab in Anki to review it.
Beside, as I said above, I use Anki to review sentences picked from drama but also from blogs and the grammar books.
For the past 2-3 weeks, I was thinking about what I can/should do now. Even if I do self-study, I'm very focused and I didn't miss one day since I've started learning japanese, so, motivation isn't a problem. I usually spend 2 hours a day learning japanese (drama for practicing my listening, anki for reviewing, blogs and online grammar ressources reading. But learning by myself, I wonder if my method is good/optimized, or if I do something in a wrong way. The only thing I'm sure now is that I will start to use Lang-8 for creating my own sentences.
Maybe way more experienced members here have advices for me.
(Sorry if my post was long, but I thought it would be better to explain my japanese "background").
This is my first post, I hope I'm in the right section.
I've been learning japanese for almost two years now, and I'm studying at home. I've started with free lessons on a french website (because I'm french ), where I learned the very very basic sentence structures and vocabulary. After, I bought a book written by Kunio Kuwae (I think this book is only available in french). There were a lot of dialogues for each lessons (+ audio for all dialogues), and texts with the vocabulary learned in the lesson. When I finished it, I bought Nihongo so Matome N3 (vocab and grammar). I also finished them 3 months ago.
Meanwhile, because I really like Jmusic, I've started to read blog entries of my favourite bands (a lot are translated by fans, so I could check if I understood its correctly or not). For several months, I also read NHK easy. I listen to japanese radio (FM Jaga) more for fun than "learning" because I didn't make any listening improvement by doing passive listening.
Two months ago, I decided to watch drama for my listening skills (I didn't work it actively until now). I watched "Ohitorisama". I used the japanese subs and the english ones. What I did is this : I watched the episode with japanese subs and when I didn't understand something, I looked at the translation. After each episode, I added the vocab in Anki to review it.
Beside, as I said above, I use Anki to review sentences picked from drama but also from blogs and the grammar books.
For the past 2-3 weeks, I was thinking about what I can/should do now. Even if I do self-study, I'm very focused and I didn't miss one day since I've started learning japanese, so, motivation isn't a problem. I usually spend 2 hours a day learning japanese (drama for practicing my listening, anki for reviewing, blogs and online grammar ressources reading. But learning by myself, I wonder if my method is good/optimized, or if I do something in a wrong way. The only thing I'm sure now is that I will start to use Lang-8 for creating my own sentences.
Maybe way more experienced members here have advices for me.
(Sorry if my post was long, but I thought it would be better to explain my japanese "background").