Japanese Language Learning Plan

Hello!

I’m really wanted to learn Japanese but I don’t know how to start. Could you share a Japanese Learning Plan, outline, syllabus or anything that I can follow as I study the language?

Thank you!

Hey:) I just started last week. If you don’t know Hiragana yet, you might want to learn that first, I saw some lessons on learning Hiragana in the LingQ’s archives. Hiragana is the secondary “alphabet” after Kanji, it looks like this あいうえお.
Then you will want to have a look at the “Getting Started” lessons provided by LingQ. They are quite difficult, but don’t try too hard to learn everything in them, they basically just tell you how to use LingQ.
Hope this info helped :slight_smile:

The “Getting Starded” lessons are too difficult for beginners in any language, IMO. I think you should try to find easier lessons that deal with the most basic fundamentals (like Darkyin suggested) or get yourself a textbook elsewhere or use a couple of online free resources like:

http://www.basic-japanese.com/
http://edufire.com/forums/1-the-fireside-chat/topics/1539-huge-list-of-free-japanese-classes

After you know hiragana and a handful of kanji, using lingq will be a lot more productive and a lot less frustrating.

If you’re a memrise.com user, these may prove quite useful too:
http://www.memrise.com/set/10017990/hiragana-14/
http://www.memrise.com/topic/japanese-kanji/wordlists/

Yea i agree, the Getting Started lessons were really hard, i still only know about 40% of what was going on.

These two sites are what I used to learn Hiragana. They are very good. I learned to read and write in just 3 days. I skipped Katakana seeing as it’s just foreign words and names (also used in the same way we use italics) but that didn’t concern me.

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/introduction

Thank you for the suggestions Darkyin and Elric! I’m gonna check out the links you gave. :slight_smile:

This one shows you how to write hiragana. http://japanese.sterzingers.com/hiragana#

This shows you how to write katakana: http://japanese.sterzingers.com/katakana#

This site tells you how hard a kanji is (gives you an idea when to think about learning it) http://www.jlpt-kanji.com/study_set.php?set=0&grouping=20

This one shows you how to write the kanji: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/kanji0093.html.

I heard ajatt.com was excellent.

Hiragana Mnemonics
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~if2n-szk/gif_1/mnemonics.jpg

Hiragana Chart
http://www.textfugu.com/free/hiragana-chart.pdf

Katakana Chart
http://www.textfugu.com/free/katakana-chart.pdf

I encourage all LingQ members to also use other resources, especially at the beginning. Obviously as a learner of Japanese you need to learn Kana and Kanji. That said, I also encourage learners to challenge themselves with somewhat difficult content. Even the getting started series at LingQ is only a start. Staying with easy learner content is one of the behaviours that holds people back in their learning, in my view.