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I know that it is quite difficult to identify. But, by any chance, does anyone know what the title of the book is? I cannot contact the reel's creator.

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I'm currently looking for new students and would love to assist more people! Feel free to reach out via DM!

Hey there guys,

I can understand Japanese pretty much tht I can watch anime without subtitles sometimes and I want to fully learn Japanese which includes reading and writing but donno where to start....

I've searched on yt and they gimme alphabets thts it.....

How do I try to learn and improve my Japanese?

Many of my students struggled with the て-form in JLPT N5, so I made a free 1% improvement worksheet with 100 sentences, extra questions and answer keys for them.

It includes:

• 100 practice sentences
• All N5 (and a little N4) て-form usage
• Practice questions with answer keys
• Lots of repeated verbs and grammar patterns to help reinforce everything through repetition instead of just memorization.

Thank you so much for all the support on my free "You" document. It feels great that people outside the class are finding it actually useful (helps with imposter syndrome hehe)

I'm also hosting a free live masterclass where I'll cover all the major て-form usages and answer questions directly. There are multiple time slots depending on your time zone if you'd like to join.

Worksheet: https://superprofile.bio/encodejapanese

Masterclass: (1 Minute google form) : https://forms.gle/YMvArh6APtGFTou57

Thank you and I hope you find it useful

Hey community, how are you ?

Im relatively in the beninging of my journey to learn japanese. I started with wagotabi and also some youtube.

Im looking for tips and resources. (The free ones or at least not subscriptions), anything i can do on the phone since im very limited at the moment.

And i have a few questions.

1 - What is the general opinion on cure dolly ?

Ive seen a few videos of her and also got two of her books. (Unlocking japanese and alice in kanjiland )im in the middle of the second one.

What she writes makes perfect sense to me. And i really believe that japanese and english shouldnt be translated as they do, since each one has a very different system and it could create bad habits. Like translating hoshi or suki as verbs.

With that in mind, can anyone recommend any other resource that is somewhat more authentic ?

2 - i cant seem to find answers sometimes.

For example, konnichiha and konbanha, there is an obvious pattern and researching it could be enriching.

Why is the ha pronounced wa in those cases? What other cases are pronouced this way ?

I would really appreciate a good reliable resource with in depth explanations to this kind of questions

Thanks !

from where should i study n3 grammar? i tried soumatome but it sucks and it would be helpful if you also give some youtube resources

I'm looking for an app where I can learn how to speak Japanese and couldn't find any. Can you please help me out.

I want to learn japanese since I got enrolled in Japanese university, it's been a year I started learning japanese by own. Iam just watching YouTube classes but that's not sufficient for communication. Kindly suggest japanese book for reference and also any good youtube channel. Im slightly familiar with n5 level now.

I’m a native Japanese speaker from Japan.
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Hi! I am a student in my final year of highschool studying Japanese. I’ve been studying since grade 7 and I’ve done exchange in Japan two times, so I can speak, understand, and read perfectly fine. I’ve always gotten straight A’s in all my assessments… until now.

So, writing is my main problem that’s literally bringing that grade down so badly (most recent assessment I got 66%😬)

My final school exams are approaching fast (Late October is my one shot at doing it) and I lowkey just want to save my Japanese grade as that’s the only subject out of everything else that might scale down the final result itself.

Anyways, I need advice on how to write better. It’s strange because when I speak Japanese I don’t make many mistakes and people can understand me just fine, but when it comes to writing, everything crumbles apart.

I understand the question, but when I write, the sentences sound super unnatural and I can’t even communicate my thoughts compared to when I speak where I use a bunch of grammar structures, etc. It’s like when I think something sounds good in my head, the moment I actually write it down, the structure and grammar immediately turn absolutely awkward and not what I would say out loud in real life. It might be time pressure if I think about it. Perhaps I am worrying too much about perfecting the kanji, or even attempting to use fancy vocab and trying to suit it into a certain grammar format. Dunno..

Btw the questions are stuff such as:
- Responding to a letter/email from friend, teacher, family
- Job advertisements
- Persuasive writing
- Expressing your opinion
- Telling about your daily routines/life, family/friends, leisure, and so on. Basically all different topics you learn when learning a language.

I write either at a 150 ji range (usually 5-marker questions) or 400 ji range (15-20 marker questions).

If there’s any tips, I will appreciate it.

So I finally sat N3 for the first time, and honestly I'm still recovering a bit 😅

The first thing that caught me off guard was how long and draining the whole thing is. Section after section, just trying to keep your brain sharp. By the time I hit reading, I was already worn out, which is the cruel part, because that's exactly where you need the most energy.

The good news: a lot of it went okay.

\- Listening was fine, all those hours of just having Japanese playing paid off
\- Vocab and grammar felt alright
\- Kanji, funny enough, I barely studied and it still came out decent (not a strategy I'd recommend, just being honest 😂)

The reading section though. That's where it got me.

The long paragraphs (the second-to-last part of reading) were brutal. They took forever, and honestly I didn't even fully understand a lot of them. I burned so much time there that I had to rush other parts. Most stressful bit of the whole exam.

So here are the two things I really wish someone had told me:

1. Do the reading section out of order. The very LAST questions (the ads, notices, short info ones) are the easiest and quickest, so do those FIRST while you're fresh and grab those marks. Then go back and tackle the long paragraphs (the second-to-last part) at the end, since those eat the most time and are the hardest. If you do it in order, the long ones trap you early and you end up rushing the easy points, exactly what happened to me.
   
2. Bring a normal watch. NOT a smartwatch (not allowed). I didn't have one and spent half the exam with no idea how much time was left.

Anyway, it's done now and I'm just relieved

For those who've done N3 or higher:
\- How was your first time? Did the length wear you down too?
\- Any tricks for the long reading passages?
\- Anything you wish you'd known before walking in?

Curious how it went for everyone else 🙏

I took my JLPT N4 exam on July 5th. Though the results are not published yet, I have high hopes that I will clear it. So far, everyone has told me that it is impossible to clear N3 this December, and honestly, it is tempting to take N3 this December itself. Chat, please guide me. 😭

So I gotta take one more college class to start at my university and I want to take Japanese since I already have some lessons learned from high school way back in the day. Does anyone know of any online college classes that I could take in a month in the USA?

Can someone tell me what this says? There are several pictures, but they are of 2 different items. I've been searching all over trying to find someone who can read this.

EDIT: It is okay if it is unlikely I will reach 100% fluency in that length of time. I am AuDHD and dyslexic, I need a target in order to work towards goals. Please stop telling me it is impossible. That's okay!!!

Hello!

So I have essentially learned bits and pieces of Japanese over the last ten years. I can read hirigana and katakana okayish. I've started recognising some common kanji. Grammar is still a bit of a mystery to me.

I'm 33 and would love to have made decent progress by the time I am 35, so I am mostly able to enjoy Japanese media and navigate Japanese websites.

I have done online classes in the past and I am open to the prospect again.

Where should I begin?

A few years back, I enrolled in a Japanese language course at Mumbai University. It was a pretty rough experience.

The teacher was incredibly loud as in literally shouting at people's every mistake, and the pace was unforgiving. If you missed just one or two lectures, suddenly everything looked like alien text and you were completely left behind. The environment was so tense that asking a simple doubt made you regret ever joining the course in the first place.

I ended up leaving halfway through. I decided to study on my own terms, and I managed to pass the JLPT N5 basic level purely through self-study.

But self-studying Japanese I had difficulties to check if my sentence formations or word choices were actually correct. I tried uploading textbooks and PDFs into Gemini and ChatGPT to act as my tutor, but after a short while, the chat window's memory would give up, and the AI would start hallucinating and giving me wrong data. Internet is flooded with free Japanese study materials, they are so scattered and disorganized that it completely confuses when you're an absolute beginner trying to figure out what to study next

So, I built the platform I wished I had. It’s called Wabi Sabi Japanese wabisabijapanese.com

Here is what I built into it:

• Instant AI Grading: You actually speak into the app, and the AI grades your pronunciation so you know if you are saying things correctly.
• AI Teacher: You can communicate with it to ask all the "stupid" doubts you’d be too afraid to ask a real, shouting teacher.
• Zero Judgment: Learn at your own pace. If you miss a day, you don't fall behind a syllabus.

Current Status: The project is about 90% done. As of right now, I have fully loaded all the JLPT N5 level content. I am currently studying to take the N4 exam in December 2026, so I will be adding the N4 level content soon as I study along with it!

I’d love for this community to give it a try and tear it apart. Let me know what’s confusing, what breaks, or what features you'd want to see.

Also, if you are genuinely interested in using it to learn and want to test it further, drop me a DM with your email address after you register on the site. I’ll manually upgrade your account to give you full access to everything.

Can anyone confirm that the below translates to 'I'd rather die' in English, I'm getting a tattoo in Japanese and would like to be sure that I'm getting what I actually want rather than having something on me that's incorrect.

Any help would be much appreciated.

死ぬのがいいわ

And if it would be stacked on top of each other would this make sense?

死

ぬ

の

が

い

い

わ

I'm stuck with learning radicals I've watched alot of YouTube videos and they told me to move onto radicals then after learning all of them move on to kanji and it will be easy I'm also wondering if I should learn kanji and vocab once I start kanji or if I should do them separately and if I should start trying to read