Not really. I've tried all those gimmicky type things before on other languages but I have never had any success with any of that learning sticking. I do use duolingo, but mainly for nothing other than hiragana/katakana flash cards because the alphabet is so huge and that app offers a lot of repetition for the alphabet.
Otherwise, I just have taken the approach I'd say a kid uses, I learn to break up sentences into words and then look up the words. I've got a few Japanese manga and I'll go through a couple pages and read it every day. It takes me forever, but I'm thinking I can actually have success because the volume of available Japanese media is very high, so there's a lot of immersion opportunity. I'm hoping to play through a game later this year, starting with something I already know well so I'm not totally lost.
Ah so immersion. I was already greatly considering that form of learning. If I were to ever learn it I'll do that and I suppose add in that breaking up sentences thing you're doing.
With there being no spaces in written text in Japanese, I sort of have had to learn to bust up sentences. It seems like a fairly simple language otherwise, with the real hard work being just the sheer volume of characters. I don't know but a tiny handful of kanji, and I think they say a kid who has finished grade school should know around 1000. I think that will come though as I get better and spending less time on figuring out the sentences. A lot of manga use the furigana (it's kanji represented in the hiragana alphabet) too, so that helps. Except I'm too old to read it half the time without a magnifying glass. Japanese kids must have damn good eyesight.
Yeah a lot of manga aimed at children has furigana in it, like Naruto for example, since they might not know the kanji.
Recently I tried listening to an anime I had already watched without subtitles and I was amazed that I was able to pick up a phrase or word about every other sentence. I should really discipline myself and start learning.
Are you using any other particular methods to learn it?
Not really. I've tried all those gimmicky type things before on other languages but I have never had any success with any of that learning sticking. I do use duolingo, but mainly for nothing other than hiragana/katakana flash cards because the alphabet is so huge and that app offers a lot of repetition for the alphabet.
Otherwise, I just have taken the approach I'd say a kid uses, I learn to break up sentences into words and then look up the words. I've got a few Japanese manga and I'll go through a couple pages and read it every day. It takes me forever, but I'm thinking I can actually have success because the volume of available Japanese media is very high, so there's a lot of immersion opportunity. I'm hoping to play through a game later this year, starting with something I already know well so I'm not totally lost.
Ah so immersion. I was already greatly considering that form of learning. If I were to ever learn it I'll do that and I suppose add in that breaking up sentences thing you're doing.
With there being no spaces in written text in Japanese, I sort of have had to learn to bust up sentences. It seems like a fairly simple language otherwise, with the real hard work being just the sheer volume of characters. I don't know but a tiny handful of kanji, and I think they say a kid who has finished grade school should know around 1000. I think that will come though as I get better and spending less time on figuring out the sentences. A lot of manga use the furigana (it's kanji represented in the hiragana alphabet) too, so that helps. Except I'm too old to read it half the time without a magnifying glass. Japanese kids must have damn good eyesight.
Yeah a lot of manga aimed at children has furigana in it, like Naruto for example, since they might not know the kanji.
Recently I tried listening to an anime I had already watched without subtitles and I was amazed that I was able to pick up a phrase or word about every other sentence. I should really discipline myself and start learning.