Now you have reached the final stage, creating an Immersion environment there are now 5000 more vocabulary words and 800 kanji left to learn. This means you will be able to enjoy daily conversations with your Japanese friends, oh yeah! BondLingo - YouTube Premium MemberShip You should at, the end of this stage, be proficient enough to comprehend at communicate at an upper intermediate level. Do this through friends, language platforms like Italki or apps like hello talk. You should try and log at least 2 hours of conversation a day using to implement what you have learnt in your study period. Once you have completed that stage and have worked up to around 1200 Kanji and 5000 vocabulary words you should be now at a stage where you are ready to partake in more complex conversations. This will require a lot of daily habitual study routines and a lot of perseverance to get through it.
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You can do this through the soumatome series and minna no nihongo (intermediate level). You need to go back to your books and learn all the grammar, kanji and vocab to take you up to an N2 level. This will now move you onto you second stage, which is essentially more of the same. You should then pend the final 5 months of this stage talking, writing and reading as much as possible to get what you know into practice and make 1000s of mistakes without hesitation. Assuming you are employing tools like anki daily to remember the words and kanji you are learning you should be able to tick off all the boxes here for a solid foundation This will give you a great foundation and provide you with about 300 kanji, 600 vocabulary words and around a JLPT N4 level of understanding. Starting with the hiragana and katakana for the first 2 weeks, then completing both Genki books over the next 6 – 8 months. You need to build your knowledge of Japanese first through reading and understanding. This is the number one starting point before trying to speak etc. Setting up your 1 st stage routingĪs a complete beginner you of course need to spend time with textbooks. We are now going to break up this journey into 3 phrases starting from a complete beginner perspective. From experience we believe that this can take around 3 – 5 years with the right attitude and determination. This includes knowing over 2000 individual kanji and over 10.000 vocabulary words, yikes. What we mean by “Master Japanese” is the ability to have conversations at native level and a JLPT N1 comprehension.
We are also going to discuss which methods will help speed up this process and also what techniques and habits you can put in place to help shave years off it. However, we are going to imagine that you have the ability to put in 1 – 2 hours per day and are pretty serious about learning Japanese. Obviously, this will depend on the amount of effort you are willing to put in and will essentially vary from person to person.
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