Introduction:
It is world-renowned for some of its biggest multinational companies, its brands that have proved themselves in the respective industries. Some of those brands are Sony, Hitachi, Honda, Nissan, Canon, Toshiba, Toyota, Mitsubishi, etc.
The success story of Japan is filled with incidents of deadly catastrophes and man-made disasters, and its ultimate victory has made the world acknowledge its progress and development.
Due to the same reason, the original, native and official language of Japan, Japanese, always has had immense importance throughout the world.
The ever-increasing number of students appearing for the JLPT (standardized criterion-referenced Japanese-Language Proficiency Test to evaluate and certify Japanese language proficiency for non-native speakers) is a clear indicator of the already held and ever-rising rank of Japanese language in the world Ethnologue.
Best resources to learn Japanese
Mastering the Japanese language can get you a handsomely paying job in a Japanese multinational company, or can get your successful business some Japanese clients, or can make you eligible to be a Japanese language translator, interpreter, writer, editor, copywriter, proofreader, a Japanese language instructor, etc.
If you wish to learn Japanese, there are many online Japanese learning apps that can help you to learn different levels of Japanese. If you are a beginner and do not even know the Japanese alphabet, you better start with the easiest lesson on the app, meant for a novice in Japanese, that is the Japanese alphabet.
The Japanese alphabet consists of characters that are over a thousand in number. These characters are of two types – one type is its syllabic ‘kana’ which consists of ‘hiragana’ and ‘katakana’. The second type of character is the adopted Chinese character called ‘kanjis’. All Japanese characters are contextual in nature. They are not standalone letters and take different forms with different combinations of characters. Each character is an idea in itself.
Apps have lessons based on various topics in Japanese learning, such as Japanese grammar, Japanese core vocabulary, Japanese proverbs, idioms, and phrases, greetings in Japanese, etc.
Let us take a look at the list of some of the most amazing apps for learning Japanese:
Multibhashi android app – Play Store:
FluentU: Learn Languages with authentic videos
LingoDeer: Learn Languages – Japanese, Korean & More:
Busuu: Learn Languages – Spanish, Japanese Etc
Italki: Learn languages with native speakers
Fluent in 3 months
These apps teach Japanese in small bits in the form of short lessons, daily quizzes with scorecards, regular tests, etc. These tactics make learning interesting for users. A user is able to assess his or her progress in learning through these ways.
There are various levels of a language that a user can choose from, based on his or her capability to understand language or the concepts in it.
The tech platforms which have their own apps also conduct online language learning sessions in order to facilitate in-depth learning of languages for their students.
Online Japanese learning classes are conducted over audio-visual mode so that a student can notice the movements of the mouth of an instructor carefully so as to understand how to move facial muscles to pronounce a syllable, and also listen to the word pronunciations carefully, and request the tutor to repeat them if need be.
The way apps can be accessed from home or anywhere, one can take online Japanese classes from any corner of the world where internet connectivity is available. A smartphone or a laptop, anything over which an instructor and a student can hear and see each other clearly and without any disturbance serves the purpose of learning well. Doubts and queries can be answered and cleared right during the sessions. Moreover, an advantage is that for taking lessons in Japanese online, one need not spend any additional monetary amount and/or time on traveling or commuting to any place.
So, all you need to do is get onboard an amazing Japanese learning app, learn how to use it, and if you find Japanese fascinating, enroll for systematic online classes to master the language!
