A Filipino College Student, Likes Video Games and Anime.

Hello there guys

Average Guy here. I just realized what my main goal is for this year: Learn Nihongo.

It's an idea that has been drifting into my head from time to time and now i decided to finally give it a shot.

Reasons Include:

- Because I like Anime and Japanese Entertainment as a whole. (video games, music)
- It's a very good and cost-efficient investment. It's potentially free, Learning Japanese Language or Nihongo means one barrier down fand one more pathway for opportunities.
- I think it won't bore me, the passion to understand something that I like.
- But seriously, it's mostly Animes and Video games

Questions:

1. What book would you guys recommend for starters? And the initial steps that I should do? I have very little vocabulary on Nihongo and most of them came from watching sub'd animes (which is not much I guess.)

2. Recommended good sites and tutorials on youtube? Or maybe an Audio Collection that I can take with me and listen to while I'm on the road. I'm currently browsing 123japanese.com for my first day of learning and memorizing the katakanas and Hiraganas.

Good Day

Welcome aboard Jordan, thanks for your intro!

You should read through our language section, then perhaps post your questions there.

Hi Jordan and welcome to the forum,

Here is some advice: Put everything else on hold and master the reading and writing of hiragana and katakana. Do not study anything else until you have done this.

If you are interested in how to practice writing kana, please do not hesitate to ask.

Here is a YouTube video on hiragana.

Necropost from 2014, brought back to life by some random spam bot.

Anyway, I wonder how Jordan did? Hope he made some progress toward his goal.