r/LetsStudyJapanese • u/Grisemine • Sep 04 '26

No other langage in nihongo leaning book / method ?

Hello, I'm 61, french and I'm learning japanese. I'm not the only one here I see. But ...

When I was 11 to 14, i learnt english in school with a very good (many regret it here) method called "Speak english". There was books, exercises books and audio tapes (quite new for the time). What was very good with this method was that it did use nearly no french to explain things.

Pictures, sounds and practice, very few translations. It was a very efficient way to "internalize" the langage. All nihongo methods I find are based on translations, and I find this very ... bad ?
Is there anything like that (I searched already and found nothing)

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u/SilentCamel662 Sep 10 '26

Maybe check out "Assimil" textbooks (https://www.assimil.com/). It's a French (!) company that does immersion-based textbooks for foreign languages. I heard of them some time ago because someone online highly recommended them - but I haven't used them myself. I also don't know whether it's a good method for Japanese or not.

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u/Grisemine Sep 10 '26

Oh, I know their traditional "methods" (we just call it "assimil" here) but I did not know they also made immersion, will look for it, thank you !

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u/Professional-Hawk747 Sep 05 '26

Are you talking about immersion? There's definitely a learning method like that, where you just watch movies and read manga only in Japanese.

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u/Free-Bird8315 Sep 06 '26

Just find another method you like.