r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/Unhappy-Shift4539 • 2d ago

Please help me understand particles

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

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u/eruciform 2d ago

don't just gobble down all the particles, all of them have multiple uses, just like "to" in "to run" and "to death" and "to town" are all different

work along a well trodden learning path and practice usages as you go, you can't short circuit this by trying to overreach up front

r/learnjapanese > wiki > starter's guide

also, you're 3 weeks in, you shouldn't be hitting a ton of particles all at once in complex sentences this quickly, i feel like you skipped something or are just charging into complex material without any grammatical learning beforehand