What are your Japanese study tips!? Let me know down below!! I tried to keep mine a bit more general so they can apply to everyone, but maybe in the future I will make more ~specialized~ videos about conversation, reading, etc.....maybe 👀

Japanesepod101 is probably the best learning experience for me. They do the mini podcast episodes so well. Really good way of teaching, Peter is a legend. The build up of lessons is a good way to increase your knowledge.

@AllisoninTokyo

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Ah yeah I listened to that in college!! Great podcast

thanks for the tips! i started learning japanese 3 months ago and i try to be as flexible with it as possible. apps like renshuu, duolingo, kanji study, and bunpo are my go tos if i don't have enough time to open my textbooks. they're not perfect but at least i can make sure i'm exposed to some japanese every day! i've also started watching more japan vlogs and animes so i can practice reading and listening. i'm a lot less nervous about the language than when i first started 👍🏾

@AllisoninTokyo

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yes daily exposure does so much good!!

ooo so cool i was expecting hiragana times to be more for beginners bc of the name but i’ll check it out 👀 love these tips! i still need to add more japanese in my life even tho i’m living here >_< it’s so hard…

@AllisoninTokyo

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I can definitely understand that misconception!! Yeah, it's a lot more advanced than I thought, plenty of words in there that I don't know 🥲 Definitely N2/N1 oriented

Love this! Thank you Allison! 😊

Thank you for giving me information on Japan stuff

Love these ideas

this was so helpful!!

So many great tips in under 10min. Thanks a lot.

The Hiragana Times app is great, I love that you can also buy issues by themselves if you don't want to commit to a subscription plan. I also started using Nihongo no mori app after watching your video and it's great, thank you so much!

Great video! Thanks for all the ideas and resources - I had heard of the Hiragana Times, but I had no idea it was such a great source of reading material! I pictured it being all in hiragana and only for beginners. The QR codes with audio are another cool feature!

Great recommendations that helped me a lot years back when I was studying English and now I am trying to incorporate them in my Japanese studies. I trink the most important thing is to find something in your target language that you really like and then using this to learn, like really listening to your favorite songs and trying to understand the lyrics. And what really helped me too was the recap of your day in your mind thing or having a conversation in your mind. I did that a lot and it helped me so much in becoming fluent and coming over that barrier of embaressment to speak. Because when you are just talking to yourself, you have all the time you want to form that sentence and no one is going to judge. That way you can build up confidence to speak and actually do that later on. So it is a really really helpful method in my opinion to.

I just started to learn Japanese. LIKE brand new, so it's great to see another foreigner helping people who want to learn Japanese. Also your accomplishments and how far you have gotten are super impressive and encouraging!

Total immersion is working well for me so far. I love your videos! Thank you :)

Thank you for the helpful videos! I didn’t know Hiragana Times was a thing. Ill give the year a try, thank you for the code!

I'm hopefully moving to Japan in spring to teach (have interviews this week) and I'm definitely worried about learning Japanese because it's so different from other languages that I speak. I'm definitely going to try finding apps to work with :)

Lovely video thanks for sharing 👍 🥰

Yes to setting games you know to your target language! If your level is good enough, you can also change your phone or computer default language. I’m definitely not there yet in Japanese but did this for French and learned a lot of new words. Plus it gets you paying attention to the language you’re learning throughout the day.

Thanks for the tips! I've been trying to do most of these things but it still feels so hard. Specially to effectively open my mouth and speak. Have been trying a lot to prepare for some interviews but I failed most of them due to freezing or not being able to think fast on what terms to use. I study on my own and live in a country which I barely know the language of, and specially, have no one to train Japanese with other than my online professor from my home country which I have classes sometimes. I considered creating videos speaking Japanese for the sole purpose of practicing, but I have no courage nor the content to do it 😂

I'm so thankful you posted this lol. I feel like I've hit a point where I feel like I'm plateauing with speaking Japanese, as I don't have many places to practice here but your tips definitely helped give me some ideas to improve my studying!!!

@AllisoninTokyo

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Yes that was me in Florida!! Just have to find ways to make do 🥹

Thanks for the study tips! I plan on trying most of them! 😅

@AllisoninTokyo

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I tend to repeat phrases for myself, and it's been helpful. Since i speak arabic, it's easy for me to pronounce japanese. But please keep it up with your videos, it’s been helpful. ❤❤

I just moved here this October as a student and I’m really struggling with learning useful Japanese 😅 what we learn at school is really formal and cant be used for conversations haha

thank you so much for this video! i came back from japan last week and i found that i lost ALL of the japanese i had previously learned since i didn't practice. i think the only thing i said was "gomenasai", "arigatou gozaimasu" and "okaikei onegaishimasu". i'm thinking about putting together a blog now where i write simple answers to questions like how i feel and describing the day. i have friends in japan so i think i'll ask them to supply me questions so i can translate them and answer back. hopefully this makes something stick. 🤞

Great video! I definitely need to work on incorporating more passive Japanese into my life to help me study.

@AllisoninTokyo

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It’s so worth it 🥳🥳

Nice tips Allison.👍 I know Japanese can be hard so I understand I’m currently studying it now and It has its ups and downs just like any other language. I didn’t even know hiragana times existed until today, it sounds cool thanks for the heads up👍

Please make a video talking about the process of moving to Japan, finding a job and how to incorporate yourself in general 🙏💕 I really want to make the move but there's so much information I don't know how to organize myself 😅

Allison has some of the most helpful tips always! anyone has some podcast recommendations for passive listening? I usally listen to yutotawa podcast but I need some variety

Timely video Alison! I burnt out from trying to do too much but feel like I'm almost ready to have another go at improving my Japanese. Only got to the teens with WaniKani, so this is inspiring for me. 😘

@AllisoninTokyo

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you can do it!! believe me it took years for me to hit 50 😂

@GoldFishBoy1337

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I don't know much about WaniKani, what's the numbers mean?

@tigb1524

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@@GoldFishBoy1337 Levels in the WaniKani kanji learning course. There are 60 levels to learn around 6000 words total. By Level 20 you'll know roughly 95% of the JLPT N5 and then it scales up from there.

I find that motivation is just about everything in language learning. For some reason I was super motivated to learn Japanese and it took years but I’m pretty good now. Many years. Not 1, 2, or 3. Learning Korean now and that unlimited motivation is kinda dried up but watching videos like this one helps. So does reading. I’m actually looking for ways to break into reading for upper beginners. It’s so painful 😂

Hello! Thank you for your Japanese learning videos! I’m a beginner (currently crawling through Genki1) and I’m so glad I heard your advice about not obsessing over how to write kanji. I’m just using Wanikani for studying it but right now it’s not my priority to learn how to write them. Learning Japanese is hard as it is already, I would be too disoriented if I also added ‘kanji writing’ into this pile 😬

ME ENCANTAN RUS VIDEOS Siento que al principio eras muy tímida pero ahora estás sacando mas tu personalidad y MENCANTAA❤

As a beginner of the Japanese language, I find your videos most helpful. お時間をいただきありがとうございます

Good video!!! One big thing like you said... BE CONSISTENT!!!!! So many times you are on role doing well in your studies. Next thing you know you miss out on a day of study then it becomes a week... or month in some cases. I will say this though. At least a little bit of time a day is better than nothing. I reckon if I was more consistent like at least 30 mins a day... I'd be alot more skillful rather than stuck. To be honest, after genki series I wanted to venture out and i enjoy listening to easy podcasts along with a transcript. Finally will say this... I could listen, watch or read Japanese all day everyday.... BUT.... If I don't write anything down.... then I'm not studying.... Pretty much wasting my time...

I found the kanji teacher app really useful. Especially on a boring train ride.

I am not studying Japanese but this is such an interesting video. Thank you.

I'm a super beginner Japanese learner! When do you think it's worth having a go at reading a hiragana times mag? 🤩🤩 (I suppose I could just have a go and see for myself? but what's the point in community if I can't ask🤗) Btw I love your videos, and have taken a lot of your advice in Also totally agree with you.... I am not one for prepping my own flashcards... I always think there must be something out there that can do this for me!!! Have a great week xx

Good tips. Not sure about the don’t write though. As a teacher there is so much research out there that highlights the connection between writing and memory. For kanji I continuously get wrong on wanikani I make the effort to write down and it certainly works. I’m well aware that I’ll never need to write it in a real life situation though.

@AllisoninTokyo

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Yeah I definitely feel you and it definitely does help memorizing some!! But it’s a huge time waste at advanced levels to me especially with like 8+ stroke ones 😆 But whatever works for you you should definitely continue 🤲

Thanks for the real study tips as someone actually living in Japan. It's nice to hear study tips different from the oft repeated methods on reddit (by people extremely studious, only focusing on JLPT, or just beginners who aren't even going to last long in the language). That Hiragana Times looks pretty good too. I'm a forever learner been learning too long time like you, so your tips (and channel) are great. Keep up the good work.

I am going to try to learn Japanese so this video couldn’t have come out at a better time!

can i ask where you got those cute illustrations from in your thumbnail?

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Perhaps the only thing I can suggest that might help at the very beginning is to not only learn the Kana... Hiragana and Katakana... , but learn them at the same time (prior to learning grammar). If you haven't done this and need to learn Katakana after Hiragana, then learn the Katakana using the Hiragana symbols rather than the Romanized letters. On a personal note (so skip this part if you'd like), I'm slowly beginning to wonder if I'm actually allowed to learn Japanese, as I don't do apps, nor do I learn on a smartphone (I actually use it for contacting people... so like... phone calls and messages...yep seriously old school stuff), use next to no social network outlets (I've never taken a selfie, so why bother, eh?), and have little or no interest in 'Gaming' or Amine/Manga or reality dramas (regardless of the language they're in). Unfortunately I cannot sing or better said realize no one wants me to sing, so I'll spare everyone that grief. Anyway... I'm bumbling along in this journey simply by creating my own private vocabulary list (perhaps another recommendation, so in my case I try to learn words I actually use rather than textbook grammar that is selected especially for the 'student phase of life') and being very patient with myself.

I have started with the alphabet system Hiragana but I don't know how to learn it. I am get so anxious over it and it is overwhelming

@AllisoninTokyo

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Don’t stress over getting it perfect! And your writing will probably look like a small child’s but it will naturally get better over time 👍👍

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Ohhh my god, it didn’t even occur to me to change one of my pokemon games to Japanese XD

Tip #2 is the biggest problem i see here in Puerto Rico. They are taught English in school since kindergarten or even PreK but as adults they use it very little because they weren't taught "conversational English". Some teachers even use British words like "lad" instead of "boy" so it becomes difficult for some to apply. It's getting better with the younger generations because of how Americanized the culture has become.

アリソンは日本で「赤い馬」と呼ばれていますか?

와우 There is this type version for even adult?!. I had for English education of early childhood books with pinkpong pen. Books had stolen by strangers but the main pen is pricy so i left my car trunk just in case. ㅎㅎㅎ That one for adult is conveniently with smart phone?!. If i need i will comment then please answer me how i pay and am being their subscriber.

Will we ever hear you speaking Japanese?

@AllisoninTokyo

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hehe I have a little in some videos here and there 😆 I actually meant to in this but forgot about it because I had a lot of trouble setting up to film this day 🥲🥲

@MonicaTheMad

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@@AllisoninTokyo I'm a language person and am very curious about Japanese, a language I have no experience with.

Thanks for this video, it's really helpful. I've always wanted to learn Japanese but where I live there's nowhere to go and study so I'm going to try it to do myself. Wish me luck 😄 Have a wonderful weekend Allison.

These are my tips if your goal is to learn through video games, which gives you both tons of reading and listening practice with native speakers. Okay so first off when you are starting your first goal to memorize the 2 basic Japanese alphabets which are called Hiragana and Katakana you can do this easily with KZread videos. Since you learning for video game I am going to recommend several KZread channels with that focus. First is Game Gengo this is the best also there are 2 videos that teach you all the basic Hiragana and Katakana, tons of video game language and grammar using video games. The next 2 are game streamers where you can learn a lot of game language. JapaneseQuest and Game Grammar they play games in Japanese and translate words and grammar also you can download the list of grammar that they made. The Finally 2 are general good the first is ToKini Andy which covers all the major grammar up to N3 which is most of it and lastly is Meshclass Japanese which is great pure Japanese channel teaching channel with subtitles and what also great is they have app which teaches you all the the N5-N1 vocabulary can also use it on the PC once you make a account. If get through all of this congrats, also it all free.