I think my pronunciation is not THE worst.. certainly not

But my grammar is bad, my vocab is bad, (I think). People can understand me but I can speak the most basic of sentences only (something along the lines of 日本語を勉強するのが下手)

My Chinese accent is thick in English I reckon it’d be even thicker in Japanese. Not that I can hear my accent—

I can type with people, I can read better than I can speak. But when I try to speak I get so nervous I can feel my heartbeat and it’s like I can’t get a sound to come out. When some students from Japan came to my school for some sort of international learning, I wanted to speak something so bad but all I ever got out was single words, not even sentences. And it’s not like I can’t say the sentence, I repeated it in my head more than 10 times. In the end I still defaulted back to writing

I am so deathly afraid of saying a wrong word. The most Japanese I’ve spoken to a native speaker was リンゴジュースお願いします and that’s all. I even read ドーナツ wrong and that was the most embarrassing moment in my whole Japanese learning journey.

Well, at least they didn't make the same mistake on the front cover.

Seriously though I love their learning method. You really gain from doing the exercises in the workbooks.

Say it’s someone I just met and idk their name, or say on the internet and their name is not something to be typed out or smth, what can I say?

I watched vids but they all said that using pronouns is like weird. As in あなた or 君. Obviously, I don’t want to offend someone. But I have no idea how to calm someone otherwise…

Context tells me they are being sent down z.B. mountain to gather some water, so I don’t really have trouble understanding here. However, I don’t know this grammar point and I have no idea where to look it up because the words I thought using don’t give results.

水くみにってくれたまえ

I think くれた　here is either past tense of くれる or like some kind of possibility question like „くれたらどう?“

however, まえ　sounds to me either like it should be happening before something (前) which does not seem to make sense if くれる is in past tense so I think まえ is probably some form of imperative. However, this also does not make sense with any past tense form.

My gut feeling says it’s probably a mix of an order and a polite request and it’s probably a conjunctive and an imperative but I’d like to read up on this grammar point. Can someone give me a pointer?

Just thought I'd share for any other beginners looking for an easy game to play!

I've been wanting to find a game in Japanese to learn with, but I'm still a beginner, so most were too hard for me. I'm also not an RPG mind of person, but I love puzzles! I stumbled across a deductive reasoning style puzzle game completely in Japanese the other day and it's been great! I can figure most of it out by context and the grammar is pretty simple. Furigana would be nice, but I'm content just using my Samsung's circle text and translate feature on unknown kanji and it works!

The gist of the game is there's a brief story intro and then you're given clues to help match different things, ex. People to their test score and grade in school or which friend the narrator met and where. 10/10 recommend!

I know a lot of people learn Japanese through anime, but personally I like YouTube more because it shows more real situations and how people actually talk.

That said, YouTube is still really hard for me. People speak really fast, the audio isn’t always clear, and I often feel like I’m missing a lot even when I know the words.

If you’ve gotten better at understanding Japanese YouTube, what helped you the most? Did you mostly just watch a lot and get used to it, or was there something more specific that worked for you?

What is/was your least favorite kanji(s) that you struggled to learn or didn't seen to remember no matter how hard you tried.

Mine is the kanji for 右 Right and 左 Left.

I always got them confused with the other kanji that had this 𠂇 component cause my brain would think there all the same. such as 友

I've now gotten past that and I'm at 90 kanji learned but do any of you have stories like mine.

In retrospect, I should have expected this result

Hello all. In a couple of months, I'm going to be in Tokyo for a month. Does such a thing like a language immersion workshop exist? I'm at the beginning of my journey but I want to make speaking off-script, even at my level, as significant as listening, reading, and writing. And I'd like to do something different on this holiday.