What Now?

Hi.
So ive been learning Japanese for around a month now and ive mastered Hiragana and Katakana symbols but im not sure what to do next to get me fluently speaking Japanese. Any course suggestions besides the Official ones as they didnt really help me. Just threw random bits of vocab at me. Ive made my own course but realt just want to see an experienced persons course which will help me speak proper sentences. Can you post suggestions below???

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git gud boi

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I kind of use jtalkonline’s 1 year to fluency as well.
Her courses are really good, I’m also currently going through jlptbootcamp courses as well.
You start with JLPT N5 as that is the beginning level of fluency and work your way towards N1 eventually/hopefully.

Something I would definitely recommend, is doing a Kanji/English meanings course, as when I first started I neglected this and I didn’t see the point of doing it.
But the past few months I have been adding the kanji/english meanings in and it makes learning/remembering vocab wayyy easier when you start having to use kanji in sentences/words. It will seem pointless at first learning the meanings of kanji, but if I could go back I would of learnt them straight after I had learnt Hiragana and Katakana, and learnt them alongside learning new vocab.

So, I’d recommend:

I’d say use this course for learning the meanings of the Kanji.

Then while doing that work through jtalkonlines or jlptbootcamp courses in the right order, which will build up your vocab, grammar and understanding of the language.

Then maybe add a few random vocab courses in, I find memoryfox’s courses, they are really good for this. As it is basic everyday vocab that is essential, and the words are quite easy to remember and will build up your confidence for learning harder words. :slight_smile:

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I knew I would need this type of course, but I was putting off adding them because reviews of this type of course require you to type the answer in English. The others I was doing only required reading in English, but typing was only in Japanese.

But now that I’ve been able to memorize a large number of words in English, I believe I can take courses like that. I added the course to try to do. Thanks for the suggestion :slight_smile:

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here are my suggestions:

learn grammar, it is very important. i kinda left it behind and tryed to learn kanjis and reading 1st and i fucked up… now i am behind with grammar

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also i found this channel, it is awesome… just what i needed… u guys should check it out:

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After you posted all that Hitler stuff I don’t think I can trust anything you say tbh

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so? if you do not trust me… what? :slight_smile:

I just thought you’d be less careless when posting about such a horrible person

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Did you notice that the official Japanese course now has an introductory course? As it is for beginners, there is no Kanji’s, with the exception of the last level, which contains Kanji’s of numerals.

@MarshallLanguages, I know you asked for only unofficial courses, but I only seen this course today. I think the course should be new so I thought it would be good to share :slight_smile:

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Wow. Thanks :relaxed:. Really appreciate your support guys!

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Youve been banned till 2019 :smirk:. Congratulations…

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Didnt notice you were a regular. congratulations

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I didn’t either, woo woo. :sunglasses:

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And your about to become level 18! :exploding_head:

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Also do you think gaining level 14 in my 1st year is impressive? :sunglasses:

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Im now open to new suggestions! As I have tried (and completed some) of the courses! So, any new suggestions? :slight_smile:

Hmm, well for me I’m just gradually progressing through memoryfox, jtalkonline, jlptbootcamp and nukemarine’s courses.
Oh, I have recently started these courses as well which are really helpful as it is the most used words in Japanese, so you are more likely to hear these words, so therefore they should be easier to remember:

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So, you’re back, huh?

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