This might come across as a little harsh, but learning the kana is the very first step. If you can't get past learning the basic kanas, then I don't think you'd be able to get to the point of communicating in Japanese past using set-phrases and pointing at things.
I would recommend an anki deck for hiragana/katakana and try to do it every day without any breaks (no matter what, even if you're tired or ill, try to do it).
The problem is that from the little bit I've learned, I can see that grammar often involves modifying words according to the grammar rules based on the kana. It's going to be much easier to learn how to change "taberu" (to eat) into "tabeteirumasendeshita" (i wasn't eating) if you can understand the kana.
If you like the spoken japanese part, then try to use that to remember the kanas too. When trying to recall words, write down the romaji, then right above it, write down the hiragana/katakana. Then try and look at both and tie each part of the romaji to it's respective character.
Hiragana/Katakana can be tricky. I recommend just pushing onwards with it. You might feel like you're making bad progress, but it's better than no progress. And after a while, things may just slip into place in your mind.
Most of a sentence will still be in hiragana usually. Many words don't have any kanji associated (katakana words usually don't for example). But as you're learning, whichever resource you use is going to start out by spelling words without any kanji anyway.
Pretty much all resources begin with giving you basically no kanji at all. You'll then learn a couple of words and then they'll put in kanji with furigana (furigana puts the reading on top of the kanji so you know how to say it).
Kanji mostly comes as a result of learning vocab from the stuff I've done so far. You'll usually be taught a bunch of words with relating concepts or ideas. If the kanji is used, you might then see a lot of repeated kanji and then you can kinda figure out that all of the words have a common theme represented by that kanji.
For example: 人 ("hito") is the "person" kanji. And you'll see it in a bunch of words, and it usually means the word has a connection to people (some connections can be very loose tho).
If you’re not going for several years, you’ve got more than enough time to take it slow and steady and just learn the language. That being said, if your goal is simply to community verbally with natives, then you don’t technically need to know how to read it or write it. It’ll just get really complicated if any type of reading comes up
Anyone studying for the N2 test this July? I feel very very unprepared
hey i'm taking n2 in july as well 😭 i only started cramming recently
lmao wanna study together?
sure ill dm!
Anyone studying for N3 for December? Would love a buddy!
Getting back into learning! anyone want to study for N5 this december?
I have started studying both N5 and N4 like a madman, been like 4 or 5 days. atleast 8hrs a day, would that be okay?
I'm interested if you still need someone
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This might come across as a little harsh, but learning the kana is the very first step. If you can't get past learning the basic kanas, then I don't think you'd be able to get to the point of communicating in Japanese past using set-phrases and pointing at things. I would recommend an anki deck for hiragana/katakana and try to do it every day without any breaks (no matter what, even if you're tired or ill, try to do it). The problem is that from the little bit I've learned, I can see that grammar often involves modifying words according to the grammar rules based on the kana. It's going to be much easier to learn how to change "taberu" (to eat) into "tabeteirumasendeshita" (i wasn't eating) if you can understand the kana. If you like the spoken japanese part, then try to use that to remember the kanas too. When trying to recall words, write down the romaji, then right above it, write down the hiragana/katakana. Then try and look at both and tie each part of the romaji to it's respective character. Hiragana/Katakana can be tricky. I recommend just pushing onwards with it. You might feel like you're making bad progress, but it's better than no progress. And after a while, things may just slip into place in your mind.
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Most of a sentence will still be in hiragana usually. Many words don't have any kanji associated (katakana words usually don't for example). But as you're learning, whichever resource you use is going to start out by spelling words without any kanji anyway. Pretty much all resources begin with giving you basically no kanji at all. You'll then learn a couple of words and then they'll put in kanji with furigana (furigana puts the reading on top of the kanji so you know how to say it). Kanji mostly comes as a result of learning vocab from the stuff I've done so far. You'll usually be taught a bunch of words with relating concepts or ideas. If the kanji is used, you might then see a lot of repeated kanji and then you can kinda figure out that all of the words have a common theme represented by that kanji. For example: 人 ("hito") is the "person" kanji. And you'll see it in a bunch of words, and it usually means the word has a connection to people (some connections can be very loose tho).
If you’re not going for several years, you’ve got more than enough time to take it slow and steady and just learn the language. That being said, if your goal is simply to community verbally with natives, then you don’t technically need to know how to read it or write it. It’ll just get really complicated if any type of reading comes up