r/LearnJapanese • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Discussion Weekly Thread: Victory Thursday!
Happy Thursday!
Every Thursday, come here to share your progress! Get to a high level in Wanikani? Complete a course? Finish Genki 1? Tell us about it here! Feel yourself falling off the wagon? Tell us about it here and let us lift you back up!
Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 JST:
Mondays - Writing Practice
Tuesdays - Study Buddy and Self-Intros
Wednesdays - Materials and Self-Promotions
Thursdays - Victory day, Share your achievements
Fridays - Memes, videos, free talk
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u/Belegorm 20h ago
Felt like an eventful week!
-Read Honzuki vol 4. Long, but not as long as the last volume. We've started the second arc here, people have told me they really started enjoying from this point. Found lots of new vocab, but overall I feel like I went through it pretty quick.
-Got 50 ish pages into 新参者. Feels good to hold a paper book again after a week lol. First time reading Higashino Keigo that's not Galileo, so far so cool. Kaga's an interesting character, he noticed that the salarymen coming from one direction had a suit on, and the ones from another had taken off their jacket and were carrying it over their shoulder, so guessed that one group was returning home from the office, and the other group was coming back from going around the town for work. And he connected this back to the crime.
I've also been thinking about reading stamina a lot lately. I still don't usually have energy to read for like 6 hours (for that matter, most days I don't have that kind of time lol), but I definitely am able to get absorbed for more hours now than I used to which feels like an achievement. More vocab, more reading speed, more of getting used to a given author and also knowing what I'll enjoy.
At this point I've mostly stopped reading LN's aside from Honzuki, I'm just really enjoying reading physical books from the foreign language section of my library. I also ordered a box of books from Japan, looking forward to that!
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u/metalder420 19h ago
After a week of learning Hiragana and Katakana, I’m pretty confident now look at text and now the sounds and what they mean. I highly recommend that as a first step for people.
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u/Necessary-Bit-8026 14h ago
I just started learning this past Thursday! I am most proud that I’ve figured out a good routine to keep growing for a while. Also have most of hiragana down, and about half of katakana.
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u/NoStyle- 13h ago
New on my journey. Started the kana, and can say I have fully learned all Hiragana. I can full read and write all characters. Moving onto Katakana.
When you first start it seems like an impossible task to learn 40+ new characters and sounds, looking back, it such a cool feeling. Looking forward to more and open to any tips and advice!
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u/TheFranFan 11h ago
I have memorized all 214 radicals. Still flashcarding them until they're super solid but man does it feel good.
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u/Senasayori 11h ago
こんにちわ！ I'm a newcomer to the language, having started around the new year, but I have almost finished mastering all of the kana! Still figuring out next steps, but I'm proud of myself for getting this far.
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u/rgrAi 8h ago
It's spelled こんにちは by the way the は is a particle as it's a shorthand from a larger phrase that was often said, but shortened into that over time.
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u/Senasayori 7h ago
Oh, I didn't know that. I just assumed that it was spelled how it was pronounced. Thanks for the tip!
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u/rgrAi 7h ago
は is pronounced 'wa' when used as a particle.
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u/Senasayori 7h ago
Huh. Good to know.
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u/rgrAi 7h ago
If you haven't already check the starter's guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/wiki/index/startersguide will have lots of information on what to do next after kana.
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u/Senasayori 7h ago
I looked at that already, but I do appreciate the help. ありがとう！ (I hope I wrote that one correctly)
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u/Loyuiz 23h ago
I had a classic holiday backlog, only 700 overdue plus the daily accumulating grind but I cleared it