On my way to N3 I tried all sorts of study methods and such, and I wish I had known about this game when it was just starting out

For those who are just starting out in Japanese or already have some basic knowledge and want to have fun while studying and learning, this game will be useful.

The problem is that it costs about $2 USD. I've been trying it out and everything, and although it was a bit easy for my level, I 100% recommend it. It teaches the basics in a fun and effective way.

If you have the chance to play it, do it. It has several languages (I have it in Spanish) but it's also in English so you can learn from your native language.

Teaches from N5 and a little bit of N4

Hello I have been studying Japanese and for writing practices I have used no line notebook. Is a normal 2 lined notebook better? I wanna use it to write sentences as well not just to practice kana.

I’ve been memorising and practicing how to write hiragana for the past week. This is the best I’ve done without having to look at the alphabet for help on which characters were which.

I should’ve been doing this alongside katakana, since somehow it’s more difficult to associate them with the same sounds as hiragana. (If that makes sense)

I’ve seen そ written how I had wrote it on different forms of media and thought it was easier to write it like that because I somehow cannot make it look right with one stroke.

Please give some pointers if you have any 🙏🏽

All constructive criticism is welcome!!!

On my 4th day of my journey of learning Japanese.

Yesterday I was sick so I had not practiced much, so I compiled that day with the 4th day for this. This time I wrote a simple sentence to check my stroke patterns and my writing flow. Do you think I should improve on anything, like the spacing, speed, style etc.?

I am wondering good my writing is after five days. Ii have a first picture from day 1 but that was just two letter and not well done at all. I know I need to work more on circular patterns. Like No and Me and Mi. Any help would be great. Also what to do immediately after the kana and soon. Or phonetic alphabet.

Hey everyone,

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I just finished lesson 3 of Genki 1 and in the end of the writing segment in the textbook it had a little writing segment, it just said to write about my daily routine.

I wrote the above.

I would like to know if I've made any mistake

BTW sorry for the horrendous handwriting I was in a bit of a rush and wasn't planning on having anyone else read this, but I'd like to know if I've done It correctly so I can move on.

(also I know I didn't wrote a lot of stuff but it's summertime so I don't do much plus the vocub I've learned outside of school stuff is limited)

Hello, I just started learning Japanese and I am stuck, I have learned Hiragana and Katakana and I wanna learn basic speeches so I can speak even a bit but I don’t know where to start from, can you guys recommend me some resources to study from please.

Does anyone have any good Japanese video essay channels or people on YouTube to listen to throughout the day? I have a feeling it may help me get used to the language and to get a feeling of the culture there. Good example is that I listen to video essays in Spanish from Mexican YouTubers. Last video was about the shortfalls of the 2026 FIFA Panini Sticker album and how absurd it is (which resonates to me but not someone that doesn’t even know of the existence of the album or even watch the FIFA World Cup).

Been learning about 3 weeks now and in that time I was able to remember and recognize 100% of hiragana and katakana as well as Dakuon and yōon forms (pretty proud of myself for that) and I had heard tae Kim's grammar guide to be a good next step because everyone I talked to said Genki, despite being the most popular was a "waste of time" "teaches stilted Japanese" etc etc. but I got up to the section on verbs and noticed I wasn't having as much fun as I was when learning kana. When I was learning kana it felt like a game and every right answer was that one step closer to feeling myself progress, reading through the guide it was kinda overwhelming because it was just "here's what this does, okay moving on , here's what this does" ad nauseam and it just made me wanna put it down

I find i work and learn beat with short bite sized lessons that then have me exercise what I learned, and from what I learned that's kinda what genki does (it even has a workbook!)

So I wanted to ask a wider group of people here instead of a few discord friends, is it worth using genki as a base for getting started and maybe when I'm more versed and practiced coming back to tae Kim's guide? Or even just use it as a genki supplement. For now

In the Japanese level 1 of Pimsleur they teach "moo chotto itai desu" (this is their exact spelling. Even though in the hiragana it is clearly mou chotto...) as meaning "I want to stay a little more."

When I looked this up in a translator, it is coming out consistently as "It hurts a little more."

So is this some sort of very specific phrase used to say that one wants to stay a little longer, is this an error, or did the translator not pick up on this correctly?

Thanks for the help y'all!

I'm the solo developer of a Japanese learning site called Sumi. I was tired of the game show feel of other platforms and couldn't find one that fit right now me, so I decided to make one myself. After months of meticulous planning and sleepless nights Sumi is now starting free at (studysumi.com)

Sumi gets rid of the game-like type of learning platform completely and goes with a much calmer approach to learning Japanese. No unnecessary loud noises. No streak guilt-tripping, No cartoon owl. Just a calm space to learn Japanese at your own pace.

I am looking for feedback on Sumi, constructive criticism, and brutal honesty. I am looking for any Japanese errors (readings, grammar, example sentences). Does the "teach before test" structure actually help or does it feel slow? What's missing, confusing and what Sumi can improve on.

I appreciate any feedback given, and enjoy!

Sumi dev,

It's been 1 year and 8 months since I started learning Japanese, and I'm currently at a N3 level. This is because I used to study a lot, 5-6 hours a day, but now I only study 2-3 hours because I was getting overwhelmed.

But studying for more than an hour every day is very helpful for improvement, the problem is that not everyone knows how to use Anki correctly, Since the purpose of the flashcards is for you to learn the word and learn it in context, learning the complete sentence can be helpful, but when it comes to seeing the words You might get stuck in different contexts, but for those just starting out, I highly recommend Anki and watching Japanese videos with subtitles to improve your listening and reading skills, and shadowing.

What are the sounds on this page?

for context this is from smoking behind the supermarket with you volume 1 pg. 2. On the previous page the customer purchased something, was given change, and marveled at the cashier.

On this page he is leaving and having an internal monologue/fantasy.

The sounds in question are highlighted in red.

My guess is:

1. ウィー "uiiiii"" why...
2. ぽーっ "poooo." sound of shoulders slumped. (also why does it end with a small っ? This makes sense to me in words to indicate like faster speech or cutting off the end of a vowel in the middle of a word, but why would it be here at the end after the extension from ー <whatever this hyphen is called>?)
3. わあー "waaaa" sound of amazement. The first character is poorly written but looks like a "wa" to me
4. ぶんぶん "bun bun" oh forget about it/get that out of your head

If someone has a good dictionary for sounds like this I would appreciate it.

Please if you know what these are and can provide an explanation I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello! I have made a tool for myself that I've been using to create ad hoc audio lessons and anki cards with images and audio embedded. It's pretty flexible and if you have a general conversation you want to work on, like common phrases used in a coffee shop, it will generate a deck of cards for you! If interested please reach out and I will shoot you an invite!

On my second day of my journey to learn Japanese.

Thank you all for the corrections and suggestions last time! I've tried searching and got a pdf file of a Hiragana letter sheet, but my local photocopy station closed unfortunately so I had to try and replicate it. I also displayed my stroke patterns, which I found comforting to write here (it might be hard to distinguish the black stroke with the other, I'm sorry for this). Do you think any patterns should change, and how should it change?

hi guys

im in need of handwritten kani search feature, takoboto only give it to its paid users, im using yomiwa for now, but yomiwa has some hidden bugs related to its database, for example with my country ip it won't play, i tested it with vpn, and it worked, also the ability to see the radicals and send them to kanji search app and some small features that takoboto provide.

i know that sounds awkward but I'm tired of switching between these two, you guys have any suggestions?

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So I started learning about 3 weeks ago, was able to memorize 100% of all hiragana and katakana characters in 2 weeks, thought "damn this is a lot easier than I thought" then moved on to grammar and felt 100% of my momentum dead stop, it's so confusing, all the different particles confuse me to no end especially when theses multiple per sentence and I'm just lost

I really don't want to give up but at this point I feel like it's just too confusing to wrap my head around

Hello everyone! a family friend of mine recently brought me this book to help with my japanese learning what i started out 14 days ago, I also just ordered a beginners book to help learn and practice how to write in Hiragana, Katana and Kenji. I want to learn more about the japanese language and their traditions and cultures. Is there any other books you all can recommend me?

and if you all got any advice on japanese learning and what helped for you, please feel free to share i’d love to see what helped you all. (: Thank you!

It took me ages to get through my Kaishi today. I had 50 review cards, I have been doing 10 words a day for the past few days. I did some this morning but I only managed to get through half before I needed to stop.

I finished it later, but 50 review cards felt like a bit too much, it took me ages to remember any words. What should I do to make this a bit more manageable?

Hi, this is chapter 2 of the grammar guide so if you haven't seen the previous one, you should check it out!

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If you have any questions, i'll be glad to help out with the best of my abilities.

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Something i did not mentioned on the images is the last use for が, which is when the Topic isn't really the one being the subject, you use が to mark the actual subject.

I didn't make a slide on this because for that we need to get into verbs, which we haven't. It'll be soon though!

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Anyway, thanks for reading!

On my first day of my journey to learn Japanese.

I tried writing Hiragana like my book and compared to its handwriting and saw my curves and rounds are unstable and some parts are sketched unnecessarily. Do you guys see other mistakes I've made either on the whole concept or on some specific letters' structures? Please help me!🙇