Introduction:

Japan offers a sea of opportunities from job and business options to good food, travel, tourism, and many more. And if you are thinking of learning Japanese, you might have considered a lot of options and ways of learning it right and in an easier way, which is probably what brought you to this blog. 

There are various things you must consider before starting to learn the language. If you are someone who does not have any previous knowledge of Japanese or even any other similar language, then learning Japanese will be a complex task for you. Learners must plan their studies beforehand. And are also required to analyze which way they should learn it and what would be the best for them.

Let’s get to the best way to learn Japanese. Although there are various ways you can learn Japanese. But as a beginner, the best way is to take a class. This can be either offline or online. The offline class would include learning in a physical atmosphere through institutions, colleges, and universities that offer language courses in Japanese. The online class involves enrolling for a paid or free language course that is provided via various apps and websites. These apps and websites are of multiple types, and you can choose any of them based on your purpose and requirements. 

Here’s why?

We now know the best way to learn Japanese. But why is it considered the best way? As mentioned earlier, Japanese is a complex language. It uses three scripts and has 71 alphabets and approximately 2000+ characters. Yes, you read it right! 2000 characters. And it is written vertically from top to the bottom consisting of various columns that go from right to left. Learning to read, write and speak in Japanese means learning the three scripts thoroughly. 

It is very different from languages such as English, German, Spanish, French, etc. this was just about the writing system and the characters. When you move forward with phonology, morphology, grammar, and syntax you will realize that the complexity of the language increases. Moreover, the pronunciations of words change the meaning in this language. Pitch and accent play a vital role in deciding what a word would mean. For instance, the word “hash when said in a high- low tone means “chopsticks” and the same word, when said in a low-high tone, means “a bridge”. Characters, phonology, morphology, syntax, and grammar form the basics of any language. And it is very important to learn them right in order to master a language such as Japanese. The base foundation must be strong in order to move to further levels of learning. 

And with something as complex and confusing as this, it is necessary to have a tutor or expert who can make this learning process easier for you and teach you the right things in the right way. These instructors being experts of the language know how to teach learners in ways that will make it easier to understand as well as remember the basics. Right guidance at the basic level is important in order to learn the characters, their individual sounds, tones, and accents, etc. Enrolling yourself in any offline or online course will make this process a lot easier and hassle-free. While learning Japanese there are going to be a lot of doubts in your mind that would need to be cleared, and these classes or courses would provide you with doubt solving and assistance whenever and wherever you need it throughout the process of learning. 

Along with this, you will constantly be evaluated to know how far you have progressed in the language. There will be an expert to assess your growth and also guide you wherever you go wrong. This does not happen when you are learning the language all on your own, you yourself have to assess your growth and you are no expert which makes it all the more difficult to know if you are doing something the right way or not.