r/Japaneselanguage

The average japanese kid learns 2136 kanji before the age of 15.

I was wondering if anyone has some resources, so I can get to that level. And work on my flashcards/study.

Thx, this will help me greatly. 🙏🙇

hello, so i memorized all of hiragana and am halfway through katakana (i memorized them by writing them all down thousands of times, litterally.) sooo after katakana how do i learn the actual stuff?

My first name in katakana would ideally be ジョシュア, and I have no problems with it. But since I've been young all my closest friends (we're all English speakers) have called me Wa as a nickname from the last syllable of my first name and it's really grown on me. If I were given a Japanese style nickname I'd much rather it be ワくん or ワさん to suit this, as opposed to ジョさん or smthng like that, but that would only really work if my name is written as ジョシュワ instead... which doesn't drastically affect the pronunciation but you can tell it's still off

I don't have any close Japanese friends as of the moment so it's not like this is remotely relevant to anything. Just asking if it's unusual or even unnecessary to intentionally 'misspell' my name like this

What are your thoughts on people posting videos on how they got a prefect 180/180 on their JLPNT N2/N1?
Is it even possible? Or is this a click bait? I am unable to comprehend the amount of effort it must have taken to score this
I Just gave my second attempt at N3 and I had worked my aa$ off and still found myself fumbling in a few questions
Would want to know what it takes to get to this perfect level

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

Struggling to memorise them so is there anything that would make memorising much easier?

Finally tried Bunpo after hearing people raving about how much better it is on this subreddit than Duolingo, and I have to say, I’m less than impressed.

It’s nice that they explain grammar, but that’s really the only thing going for it. The system is extremely particular about how you word the sentences. Not to mention they’re also using AI? Which is why people got so upset about Duolingo in the first place. It doesn’t really seem like that much better of an app.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Edit: I am talking about Bunpo not BunPRO. I got the two apps confused. I am going to give BunPRO a shot. Thank you to the commenters who pointed that out!!!

I always hear when looking for help that people learn 10+ words a day. I would love to be able to but I don’t get how you memorise so many words in just a day, then go and learn 10 new ones the next. Am I doing something wrong or do I simply need to spend more time?

I was doing Duolingo and it said

この部屋は二つ戸があります

My understanding right now is that the counter 二つ cannot go before the noun 戸.

Therefore

・この部屋は戸が二つあります

・この部屋は戸二つがあります

・この部屋は二つの戸があります

Would all be ok. But according to another redditer who helped me, Duo’s sentence is correct. I just don’t understand why.

I remember one of the first things I learned on that let’s learn Japanese 1980s series with ヤンさんway back was that you must say チョコレート(を)二枚ください and they hammered home you cannot use the English word order and say 二枚(を)チョコレートください.

Of course this is a completely different sentence , but I always remembered it when choosing the counters position.

Now I’m confused.

Edit: one of my 3 sentences had an error.

As the title suggests, what is more important?

I am N3 but I would say I am fluent enough in Japanese to fully converse and not have a language problem but I am too lazy to take N1 or even N2.

What do you think is more important? I would be graduating from university in around two years.

(My post got removed in one of the other subs, so I would be posting it here once again)

I don't know what it is, but I am absolutely addicted to the SRS. I love leveling up in WaniKani and seeing words enter the Burned category. I love trying to guess what a word means based on the kanji I know that comprise it. I love having plenty of time to understand what a full kanji sentence reads like and means.

But when it comes to almost anything else with the language, I just don't feel as passionate. I get bored immersing in podcasts and have a hard time paying attention. I am very introverted and don't have any desire to practice speaking.

I don't know, does anyone else feel this way?

I am looking for anime to immerse myself in, but a lot of the ones I was recommended I either couldn’t get hooked on or they were too difficult for me to follow. I’m looking for anime that are somewhat similar to the list below, ideally around N5 to N4 level Japanese. Any recommendations would be appreciated:

Re:Zero
Black clover
One piece
SAO

皆さん、こんにちは

I'm learning Japanese since September 2025. I plan to take my N5 test this December.

I feel I progress in grammar since my teacher goes by the content and I feel happy with him and my classes but I feel all this knowledge is not fully learnt.

For example I might know what ここで写真を撮ってもいいですか？means.

But when talking or writing I struggle to find vocabulary or other than very simple sentences. I feel that combining all that I "know" to create much richer texts is very difficult yet.

I do use Anki daily to get my vocab to grow, try to listen to 1 hour daily of comprehensible input. Honestly talking and writing is what I lack some practice maybe but I don't have any other tools than talking to my teacher or practicing with chatgpt writing.

What tools or strategies do you use to practice vocab, speaking and writing?

Thanks everybody!

I hear a lot of talk about Renshuu being good for grammar and vocab but is it just me who feels that it’s a bit too loose? I think that the fact that it’s so free and doesn’t “hold your hand” like Duo is for some reason slowing my learning. I think I average 4 words every few days. Is it just me who thinks this??

Im going to Japan at the end of August and want to learn at least a little Japanese. I refuse to use duolingo out of the fact I have no respect for it. I found lingodeer. If it's no good, please advise another app/site for learning, please

Hey, I’ve been learning Japanese (via wanikani) for ~6 months now and I know about 2100 words and 600 kanji. I’ve been using Bunpro for grammar but I started it later (2 months ago) so I only recently finished n5 grammar. I was wondering when I should start sentence mining along with learning Bunpro and wanikani?

Hello!
I’m planning to go to Japan for a year as a student next April and I’m at the moment where I have to decide which school is best for me. After some research, I was pretty much set on ISI Shibuya-Harajuku campus because they flex (a lot) about their career and employment support. They even claim that “the schools tap into their network of companies to help students find employment after language school”, but after some Reddit reading I’m having doubts this is true at all.

I already have the JLPT N2 so I’m not a beginner. My main focus is to improve my Japanese and business Japanese in order to find a job in Japan, and I really need this “career support” to be true and useful (because is basically the reason why I’m thinking of ISI).

Any recent experience with this school?
Do they really help you secure a job or it’s just to attract students?

I’m also looking into other schools like Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute (SNG) and Tokyo Galaxy. Anyone with experience with these schools is welcome to leave a comment as well!