In today's article, I will talk about what I do to deepen my studies in Japanese. Personally, I have a great difficulty in studying; I am a big procrastinator. I can't find the time to read and study the way I want, so the best way for me to do this without feeling bored is by writing for the site. This ends up generating some doubts:
- What are the benefits of studying Japanese by writing articles?
- What content to study and write?
- What is the correct way to generate content and study at the same time?
- How can I be sure what I'm writing is right?
The main purpose of this article is to encourage you Japanese students to collaborate with the site and at the same time increase your progress in studying Japanese. That's why I invite you to be part of this family and help you study Japanese by researching and writing articles that can help other people learn Japanese at the same time.
By the end of this article, you will know in detail how to create your own study material and we encourage you to submit the content created by you to our site through the Submit Article page. This way, we can increasingly generate and share content with the public.
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What content to study and write?
Suki Desu encourages people to study in a free way, just absorbing content and texts. Below is a list of things that we encourage you to study and that we are also working on for our members area.
- Study songs;
- Study sleeves;
- Study anime;
- Study texts;
- Study poems;
- Study Kanji;
- Study games;
Practically any material or media can be used to learn Japanese, including signs, messages, and labels. To carry out this study, we encourage people to examine every sentence and word from the content they wish to study. You can simply take a notepad or Word document, write the sentences, and below them write the word in Japanese, the reading, and the detailed meaning. At the same time, you are creating sentences for Anki.
Como gerar conteúdo e ter certeza que está certo?
We have already mentioned that to generate content and study at the same time, we encourage studying phrases from texts or mangas. A great example of how to create content is the Japanese songs that we dissected on our website. Here is an example of a phrase studied in the article Translating songs - Oto No Naru Hou - Goose House.
でももう平気 ひとりでは背負わないでいいんだよ
Demo mou henki hitori de wa seouwanaide iinda yo
Mas tudo bem, você não tem que suportar sozinho
- でも - but however
- もう – interjection used to strengthen the expression of an emotion
- 平気 - all right, calm, carefree
- ひとり - alone, one person
- 背負う – burden, assume, responsibility, carry, be ahead
- 背負わない - negative
This is how the sentence structure of the material studied should be. Now how do you discover the meaning of each word and fully understand the meaning of the sentence? First of all, you shouldn't just use a dictionary or translation tool. When translating and finding out the meaning of each word I check in several places which I will list below:
- I search the word on Jisho. (English website);
- I search the word on Google;
- I translate using Google Translate;
- Study its use in other sentences to understand the meaning;
- I translate the English translation of the Japanese word into Portuguese;
Most of the words you can only find the meaning of on English websites. This is not a problem, since you can use Google Translate to translate the page, just be careful not to fall for the pitfalls of these automatic translators, which is why we check the meaning from various different sites and even research the meaning of the translation from English to make sure we get the real meaning of the word. (In the VIP area of our site, we teach step by step how to research and do this.
Se você simplesmente jogar a palavra no google para chegar a uma tradução, com certeza vai ter algum erro, mas se você pesquisar em várias fontes, ver discussões do significado em fóruns, exemplos de uso, é bem improvável você acabar cometendo algum erro. Ao mesmo tempo que você faz isso, está estudando e memorizando essa palavra em sua mente sem força-la.
Benefits of studying creating content
São inúmeros benefícios de estudar traduzindo textos e gerando conteúdo. Vou listar alguns abaixo:
- By translating and generating study content, you can share and help others learn and study Japanese;
- By translating and researching the meaning of words in detail on Google, you improve your research skills, help with memorization and even end up learning a little English;
- Studying by translating texts and music is a perfect way to end procrastination, study in a fun way without feeling bored;
- Studying phrases is the best way to learn and memorize any language. It's usually 10x more effective than trying to memorize vocabulary tables or fill in gaps on a sheet;
- As you spend time studying each phrase and word, you also learn the grammar of the Japanese language;
- When studying sentences without worrying about writing, you end up memorizing several Kanji without even realizing it;
By studying and submitting your study content to our site, you are contributing heavily to the creation of the site's content. Don't waste your time, study, write, translate, search and send to our team, we will review, publish and even improve. Remember that you don't have to limit yourself to this way of studying, you can write anything related to the Japanese language or about Japan and send it to our website. xD