掲示板 Forums - Please help me

Focus on learning one thing at a time. Try not to dive too deep into things you aren’t ready for.

If you haven’t already, learn hiragana and katakana first. Then, I think it would be a good idea to learn basic sentence structure. There’s a good guide on YouTube by Cure Dolly (RIP).

Remember that Japanese is considered a very difficult language for native English speakers, so if you want to learn, don’t be impatient.

I’m on my 4th month now (I think) and I don’t think I’ve gotten very far. After all, we all have our own circumstances that don’t allow us to study 24/7 (like college).

try practizing everyday a little bit. don't overdo it, maybe twenty minutes a day to repeat vocabulary, beginner sentences and beginner grammar? set your schedual back to "relaxed" and don't overload yorself. If renshuu asks you, if you want to add new stuff, wait until you are comforable with what you have already learned. if you already feel it is to much, you can set your scheduals back or freeze them! Learning should be fun!

ganbare!

I learn for the best!

がんばるよ！！！！！！

Everyone is so kind!

If you are just starting I would recommend learning the basic grammar and most basic words, like "私", "は", etc. You can find all of them in the schedules that gives you Renshuu, once you learn 50 or even 100 word, even less than that, you could look for beginner content that use "comprehensive input", basically this method of study makes you integrate the words that you already learned and even allow you to learn even more with the respective context; not only that, but with time, you also learn how to use it in different context, and once you start to understand one, two, three, more and more videos, each time not only gives you confidence, but also gratification. I ensure you, learning Japanese or any other language it is not difficult, you just need to find good study methods, but that also are suitable for you, suitable with your time, with your previously learned words, for example, I have an intermedia-advanced level in Chinese and I have a "advantage" because some words and kanji have a similar meaning or pronunciation to the Chinese onces. I literally learn english only by watching content in English with "closed caption" (basically allowing you to listen and understand by reading it at the same time), and you might (really) notice that I'm not a native English speaker, I'm actually a Spanish one!

If you have more time I would recommend you using "spaced repetition" and "active recall" and you can find even more information about how it works on Youtube, but you can do it by using Anki, you can even create a deck yourself with Yomichan (pc) or by hand and personalize it however you want, but you have to; on one side only the word or the meaning (i prefer the word, but you can choose the one you want), you have to active recall the pronunciation and the meaning or word, once you turn the card you verify that is correct or not, then you choose accordingly "good" or "again" (if you only choose these two option Anki logarithms will be more accurate). Basically, Anki will spaced the card, and you will have to repeat it at first the next day, then after three days, etc, etc. How this method works is each time you review the same word the curve of "memory" will "reset", allowing you to remember the word in long term, and "comprehensible input" will help you integrate the word onto everyday context. If you do tongue-twister or "shadowing" will allow you to actually speak, and if you did "comprehensive input" you might as well speak according the context, but it takes times and practice.

Really hopes that this might be helpful for you! ✨