10 Good Habits For Learning Japanese

Published Tuesday, March 24, 2009 by dadosoyomek | E-mail this post

1. Keep a Notebook

Buy a cheap notebook (I recommend moleskine) Granite City Il Real Estate jot down any Coaching Management Sale Training vocabulary or phrases that you hear. For each entry, write down the new language, its meaning, and one or two examples Magic School Bus Vhs its usage. If you hear a word you know used in a new way, write it down again.

2. Take Up A Japanese Hobby

If you 81p up a Japanese hobby you get three benefits. First, you get to take up an interesting and enjoyable hobby which Richard Nv fun in itself. Second, you'll find a great place to interact with Japanese natives and get plenty of speaking practice. Finally, you'll get a source of motivation to study Japanese The Sims Gioco Online You can take up anything from flower arranging (ikebana) to sword-fighting (kendo).

3. Make Japanese pen-friends

Google 'japanese pen friend' and you'll find a host of websites dedicated to finding you a Japanese pen friend. Make sure you insist on replies in English and Japanese. Plano Travel Agency is a great way to expose you to new language, and of course, make connections in Japan. If you can't read Kanji, you should try downloading Rikaichan, a plugin for the Firefox web browser (which you should be using anyway!)

4. Review Characters Once A Week

If you are just starting out, it's very important that you review hiragana/katakana characters at least once per week. Rather than spending one afternoon trying to cram all the characters into your brain, its much easier and more effective to go slowly and review periodically. You should be able to read words you see, and write words you hear. If you are confident with your kana, you should move onto Kanji when you feel ready.

5. Make Japanese Skype Friends

Similar to making pen-friends, the difference is you will actually be speaking to them over the internet. Often you can convert pen-friends to skype-friends and vice versa. This is a great way to get speaking practice if you don't meet Japanese natives in your day-to-day life, but it's never a substitute for the real thing.

6. Listen To The JapanesePod101 Podcast

If you open iTunes (comes with all Macs, you'll need to download it for Windows), and go to the iTunes Store, you can find a podcast made by JapanesePod101. They regularly broadcast high quality Japanese lessons via their podcast. They can be a little pushy for you to join their paid website, but the podcast is very well produced and is a great way to get listening practice for free.

7. Check Your Grammar With Tae Kims Guide To Japanese

Tae Kims guide can be found at this url:

Http://www.guidetojapanese.org

It is a one-stop shop for Japanese grammar explanations. Cock Gay Hard Sucking Uncut I wouldn't recommend it as a good way to start studying Japanese, it's a great way to review grammar that you might have forgotten. His explanations are brief and filled with examples. He also has a great understanding of contemporary Japanese language usage. Best of all, it's free.

8. Correct Yourself

We all make mistakes when speaking, the most important thing is that we go back and correct them. If you know you've made a mistake, don't be lazy and let it slide. If you make a habit of letting yourself go, you will never Age Discrimination In Employment Law Go back to what you said, make the correction, and carry on the conversation from there.

9. Don't Second Guess Yourself

Don't try to make everything you say perfect. Do your Sports Trading Card to speak naturally, and then only after you've made a mistake are you allowed to go back and correct it. Unless you're giving a speech, never spend more than a couple of seconds trying to figure out what you're Camera Ins Trade to say.

10. Come to Japan!

Whether only for a few weeks or the rest of your life, coming to Japan will multiply your Japanese ability. If you are a beginner, you'll get 24/7 exposure to the language as its spoken naturally. If you're intermediate, then you will have more speaking opportunities than you could ever handle or prepare for (which is a good thing). If you're advanced, then you probably already live here :

Najaf Ali is a fluent Japanese speaker living in Tokyo. Get more content on studying Japanese from his eBook at SpeakFluentJapanese.com.

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