How to make more progress in Japanese Language?
First, calm yourself down. Take a breath. Perhaps meditate for a little while. The key here is to avoid becoming overwhelmed. Now, go a little deeper into your existing Japanese skills and knowledge. You know what you know and you know what you don’t know. Take a moment to seriously analyse your weaknesses. Be honest with yourself.
Once you identify some key areas in which you can improve, you can target those areas to continue improving. Let’s have a look at how we can identify and correct our problems.
This post will address a few different key issues you may be having in learning Japanese:
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
- Sounding like a native speaker
- Speaking without fear
- Motivation (or lack thereof)
Learn vocabulary by situation or theme!
Learn vocabulary by situation or theme
By learning these words together, you’ll be able to remember them more easily since they all have a strong thematic link. This will also assist you later when you want to practice conversations involving that situation or theme.
Play a game!
There’s a cool language game you can play with yourself in your everyday life to improve your Japanese.Practice describing something random you come across during your regular routine. For example, if you walk past a park, try to describe it in excruciating detail
Read grammar sites and blogs
This is a great, free way to improve your Japanese grammar. Grammar sites and blogs often provide an engaging narrative to guide you along and make learning feel effortless—even entertaining! Simply read and read and read about it online.
Mimic your favourite TV character
If you like watching TV shows or anime, this is the tip for you. Here’s how you can use your favorite TV show or anime series to help you learn Japanese.
Get a one-on-one teacher
It might not be a free option but it’s probably the fastest and most effective way to practice your conversation as well as learn about the Japanese language. Especially if you don’t have any Japanese friends to talk to. You can search for teachers in your area or take to Skype options to find a quick, convenient solution.
Find your reason
Maybe you don’t really remember why you’re studying in the first place. Get back that spark that pushed you to learn Japanese in the first place and you’ll be well on the path to recovery.
Have you always wanted to be able to watch anime without subtitles? Great! Give your Japanese learning a little kick-start by taking the time to watch your favourite anime shows every day.
Take to the internet
The internet is a great resource for many things. It’s provided us a way to communicate across the vast oceans that may separate us. Lucky for us, there are some great tools out there to help us learners meet native Japanese speakers with whom we can practice speaking.
Finally,
Continue learning Japanese or speaking Japanese in your everyday interactions with people who already know Japanese fluently. Keep practising with the same vigour and be consistent with learning!
You will be soon on the path to success!