The best ways to study Japanese

Planning, self-discipline, resilience, and a lot of patience are fundamental parts before studying Japanese or any other language. There are several ways and methods to study Japanese and we will see some of them in this article.

NHK News Easy - "www.nhk.or.jp/news/easy

NHK News Easy provides several news articles in simplified Japanese, the words on the website are at the JLPT N5-N4 level, and for words that are not at these levels, when you hover over them, they explain the meaning with N5-N4 words. At the end of each article on the site, they ask if the news was easy to understand and if you were able to understand everything. One of the very cool things about this site is that it has a button that highlights people's names in green, city names, provinces, and place names in orange, and lastly, it highlights the names of companies and organizations in blue. Reading a news article with a dictionary every day is a great way to improve your Japanese!

Anime

Watching anime is a great way to improve your Japanese very quickly, but it requires a little more familiarity with the language. The great benefit of studying with anime is to improve reading and listening skills much faster than usual with the help of. kitsunekko.net that provides subtitles for anime in Japanese.

Mangas

Studying Japanese with manga is very different from anime and is much better for improving reading because you have all the time in the world to analyze each page of the manga unlike in anime where you have to keep going back every time to listen again. One of the bad things or maybe good if you look at it from another point of view is that both in anime and manga there is a lot of informal language.

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Reajer - "Adjust"reajer.weebly.com

Reading Japanese often seems to be an intimidating and arduous task for students. But developing your high-level reading skills can actually be enjoyable - as long as you have the right resources. Reajer is all about creating the perfect combination of such resources to give you access to authentic Japanese literature and put the fun back into reading this difficult yet fascinating language.

Each bilingual Reajer text is a standalone unit with a short story, an essay, or selected poems that can be used independently of any other unit in the series. The original Japanese texts are all public domain (all other materials on the website are owned by Dan Bornstein).

The texts in Japanese are presented as they were originally printed, without simplifications or alterations, in addition to occasional spelling adjustments to facilitate reading. This gives you the opportunity to get to know the true living language used by native Japanese authors who write for a native Japanese audience. Reajer is originally in English, but you can manage well using Google Translate!

Wa Tanoshii - "It's fun"watanoc.com

– A web magazine to introduce everyday things in Japan to people interested in the country and its language. The more articles you read, the more information you will collect and help improve your Japanese.

You will find that using relatively simple Japanese words, you can express many things. The articles are written in plain Japanese and are suitable for beginners to intermediate Japanese learners!

Wanderbar SNES - "tomato.fobby.net/wanderbar"

– For those who are fascinated by games, this computer program is one of the best resources for studying Japanese! It is an emulator of super nintendo or the famous nintendinho and with it you can play some games simultaneously in English and Japanese, and compare the languages.

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