How To Teach Yourself Japanese Part 2 of 2

This is the second part of how I learn Japanese. See the first part here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CfSpdGSVsc

So I've had a lot of people ask me lately how I learn Japanese. This is how I do it. This is by far not the only way to learn Japanese, but it's how I go about it. If you like self study, and don't want to take classes, then this may work for you. I only included what to do until 2001 Kanji Odyssey. After that there are many other things you can do like kanzen master 2kyu, subs2srs dramas, etc. I'll get more into that when I get there myself.

0. Study EVERY day. You will not learn this language casually, it is going to take a LOT of work.
1. Learn kana
2. Learn kanji
3 Start the sentence method.

During all of this increase your immersion as possible without going too crazy. Don't over do it at first either.

Smart.fm (I talked about using this for kana, some use it for vocab instead of Anki also (core2000-6000)
http://smart.fm/

Reviewing the Kanji (features a link to the Remembering the kanji book site that has a pdf of the first couple chapters. This page also has a great forum for language learners!)
http://kanji.koohii.com/

Anki - The spaced repetition software/system (SRS) I use:
http://ichi2.net/anki/

Tae Kim's guide to Japanese grammar:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/基礎日本語文法教本-西口-光一/dp/475740168X

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar-日本語基本文法辞典/dp/4789004546/ref=pd_sim_b_1

2001 Kanji odyssey:
http://www.coscom.co.jp/ebook/2001kanji/diskdata/index.html

Remembering the Kanji:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Remembering-Kanji-Complete-Japanese-Characters/dp/082...

Remembering the kana:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Remembering-Kana-Reading-Japanese-Syllabaries/dp/0824...

Genki(if you like textbooks, I don't):
http://www.amazon.co.jp/GENKI-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-初級日本語げんきI/dp/4789009637/ref=pd_sim_fb_3

All about particles:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/助詞で変わるあなたの日本語-About-Particles-茅野-直子/dp/4770027818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265890543&sr=1-1

Read Real Japanese:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/日本語で読もう-フィクション編-Read-Japanese-Fiction/dp/4770030584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265890562&sr=1-1

Firefox addon Rikaichan (allows mouse-over translation of Japanese)
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/2471

All Japanese All The Time (A pretty good blog on learning Japanese. He is a great motivator and his site is worth checking out. I like a lot of what he talks about and very much dislike other things. Be your own judge on it! Either way you will walk away with some good stuff from his blog!)
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/about

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[TheAcidoProductions]

whats the name of the laptop/ i couldnt hear you ;(

[RisuMiso]

@TheAcidoProductions I use a macbook pro, but it's irrelevant.  Any computer will work.

[NukeMarine]

Hey, thanks for the name drop, but I didn't do the Tae Kim spreadsheet, I just took someone else's effort and put it in an Anki deck. Speaking of which, there are many other spreadsheets for the books you showed (UBJG, 2001KO, All about the Particles, etc) on the koohii forums. Usually, access are given to them by a showing a some proof of ownership of that book.

Good vid and sorry for the late response.

[RisuMiso]

@NukeMarine Hey! I've taken a lot of my self-study methods from stuff you have posted on the koohii forms, so thanks! I recently got the JSPEC spreadsheet off koohii, and have started doing that. I decided to do it before 2001KO. Thanks for watching, and all the advice!

[Victor00Lopez]

Hey RisuMiso, how about the sounds?

how did you learn that? :O

Because in the book remembering the kanji it says it does not teach sounds O.O

[RisuMiso]

@Victor00Lopez I learn the readings by putting sentences from native material into ANKI. I look the word up in a dictionary and learn the readings in context. I just learn words, I don't bother trying to learn kun and on yomi readings by themselves because I think it's pretty pointless.

[benarroch15]

your parents show be proud of you..

you are a very smart person..

a few in all world..a able to do that..

in another words.. bless you god.

[maneatingbanana]

Do you know how to do the r sound?

[fzsdjbncf2000]

まぁ英語はできますけど、中国語はちょっとできません。

way better:D

[alexveldin]

"start watching anime and read manga in japanise!"

[cuppiedude20]

very good video

[GengoNoTabi]

Excellent! Thank you very much. I don't approach my Japanese study with the idea that I will do this and that and then I will be able to speak Japanese. I have been studying through a dozen different paths for two years now and I can say it is a vast mountain I climb. This being said your video was very refreshing because you really broke down what you have been doing and your experience with different resources.

[qnrwhtjs]

外国人は漢字がとても難しいと言われますが、実は漢字は日本人で­も中国人でも難しいのです。ちなみに自分は日本人です。皆漢字は­苦手分野だがある程度は書ける。特に日常的に使われている漢字な­ら皆何でも書けます。ただ古い漢字等、まったく使われていない漢­字などは専門的な人でないかぎりほとんどの人が書けないでしょう­。なぜなら漢字は数え切れないほどあるからです。

[charlessmyth]

Check out LingQ.

[tropirei]

iPads or iPhones make a great substitute for electronic dictionaries. All you Need is to get the morons app and turn on simplified chinese as an input. Then you can draw any kanji you don't know :)

[ohthesovietkitsch]

Oh god, that is almost EXACTLY what I thought/imagined the first time I ventured into a コンビ二 and saw all the Crunky bars. でもね、Ｃｒｕｎｋｙはホントウに恋しいなところですぅｗｗ But let's be honest, Crunky is pretty damn awesome.