That's the big downside indeed, both captions and translations tend to be low-quality. twitch.tv/sdc333 is great. Keep doing it till you're finished with like an hour of audio. I’ve seen a few of these with the auto translate. You can do the same thing on YouTube as well, just search for
+ 実況プレイ. If you live in Japan, go to a bar. So I've been learning japanese for like 2-3 months now.
At the moment, most of the vocab that I know is from Genki 1. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the LearnJapanese community. Here's a Japanese Drama Immersion course I made for Memrise following this idea.
The process is slower and you can look up more words as necessary. Most of my vocab resources and non-native reading resources included audio and I try to focus on the audio without reading first so I don't use reading as a crutch for the audio. He seem to speak Japanese only, but his stream has auto-caption & translation, which pop up on stream at a very slight delay.
Likewise, when watching Japanese shows, putting on Japanese subtitles can be helpful for getting you used to comprehending at normal speed. It gives a nice opportunity to process what is being said before seeing the answer, and once the caption pops up you get to practice reading hiragana/katakana/kanji as well. By figuring out the Japanese you help your vocabulary and grammar and speaking. So I've been learning japanese for like 2-3 months now. You may pick up some words through passive listening, but if you can’t understand the majority of words said it won’t be of any use. Do you have any techniques or resources that have helped you? Reading along to transcripts as it is read by a native speaker is very helpful. Listening to natural/everyday conversations in Japanese I find helpful, Benjiro's youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBBWt5H8uZW1LSOh_aPt2Q) was mentioned some time ago in this subreddit.
Press J to jump to the feed. Thanks for the input! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the LearnJapanese community. If I'm reading a transcript of what Japanese people are saying, I can understand it, but when it's spoken, I have no idea what people are saying. Use it to figure out sentence by sentence what is being said. If you're watching TV or something, don't fool yourself into thinking that you understood because you can infer from context. I guess the main takeaway is to consume these kind of things alongside regular study and high-quality listening material like podcasts and audiobooks. I find that dramas are the best. If you can't theres a nice learning discord channel https://discord.gg/SFR6jGg, if you want to practice speaking I'm down for basic conversations (pm me). That's indeed why I was specifically looking for livestreams, as I find them to be engaging in a way that regular videos don't really match up to. Listening to that audio a lot will improve your listening to a large degree. I know of course, they speak very fast, lol. He streams mostly obscure retro stuff (which is my thing) and he and his community are pretty much bilingual. 助けて下さい！. I was wondering if there were people who had this problem too and how you got over this? This will reinforce a lot of vocab you’d hear often in these streams, and the other great thing is you’ll get reading practice since the games have Japanese text in it too. This will reinforce a lot of vocab you’d hear often in these streams, and the other great thing is you’ll get reading practice since the games have Japanese … I'll learn words and grammar every day and I'll continue listening very carefully every day. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.
Well you've gotten through the first part, acknowledging that subtitles and songs do little to help listening comprehension because one is just reading and one is not like talking at all. Using this advice I’ve managed to get my listening skills up to a decent level. I found that talk shows are pretty good as well, and let me tell you, Japan has a fucking TONNE of them.
I just pay extra close attention when watching anime or drama and try to pick out words. My top recommendation for improving your Japanese listening skills is Conversations. I have also started to spend time not looking at the subtitles on anime or at least parsing the sentence in my head before I read the translation.
As a beginner learner, you can try this website: http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/list/1.html or this website with video lessons and scripts: https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/. Of course I don't get too much past the odd words or phrases because i'm not at a very good level yet but it definitely helps and is satisfying. Consider using podcasts to get your daily (or weekly) dose of Japanese listening practice. He's marked some of the conversations he's done so far with (easy) or (hard), and seems to be continuing to upload more of them.
I think the biggest thing that improved my comprehension skills (other than constant listening) was to improve my understanding of grammar and to increase my vocabulary. I can maybe pick out a couple of words, but I can't really understand what anything means. I'm hoping to get to a point where I feel confident engaging in chat as well, which is a fun goal I can probably achieve in the near future ^^. I'll listen to NHK news and follow along with the transcript right now since that sounds fun. Cookies help us deliver our Services. A lot of the genki stuff is for good intro and chatting type conversations. You can also read the scripts. So besides the basics of reading, writing and listening, I practice vocabulary regularly. with the japanese from zero series (currently in book two) and I also have a private japanese teacher, so grammar, speaking and reading is pretty much covered. Just search any game you like and filter by language. I've been watching Japanese shows and reading for a very long time every day. Would you recommend it, or do you think there are better sources to learn from? You can supplement your vocabulary with other wordlists via anki/iknow.jp (use rlearnjapanese for 3 month trial)/memrise. This does a number of things. Thanks for writing this. More active listening! By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. you'll have moments where it'll be like "oh so that's what that meant!". Keep doing subs2srs to improve your library of listening material. I found it to be a great learning tool. Hope that helps! Listening is just like reading in that you have to spend time breaking it down and going through it bit by bit before you can listen and comprehend native materials at a reasonable pace. 'Anime Vocabulary' playlist on my Learning Japanese YouTube, http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/list/1.html. For listening practice, I think finding material you enjoy is the most important part since it will lead to consistency and watching similar material. for some variety shows I'd say it's like 75% comprehension. Ohh, thanks for the link! Hey fellow Japanese learners! Welcome to r/LearnJapanese, *the* hub on Reddit for learners of the Japanese Language. If you can't theres a nice learning discord channel https://discord.gg/SFR6jGg Since subs2srs does it sentence by sentence, you can repeat these as speaking practice. There's already quite a few conversations that have been uploaded. "japanese people can't speak japanese" should be easy.
and then one day - after listening to Japanese all the time, watching Japanese TV every day, and going to Japan for extended periods of time - something suddenly snapped and listening became one of my strongest skills. You should be in a relaxed state when listening and comprehension should come naturally. I talked about this in one my posts here! 3 Japanese app tools for Beginners Review Just wanna share to you guys these 3 offline app tools that i think could help you guys with your japanese study especially for those beginners. I found NHK news helpful, because the article is basically a transcript of what the announcer is saying. There are some easy dramas/anime you can watch.
Perhaps learning to understand things without the captions would be a good listening goal for me :'). But, most importantly, actual conversation.