How Difficult is Travelling Japan without Japanese? 🇯🇵 🚫NEW VIDEO

Hey folks,

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

After a month tirelessly working behind the scenes on numerous videos, we’ve at last dropped a new video covering the difficulties folks face when trying to learn Japanese (as well as a roundup of ridiculous news stories involving tourists and Fuji).

I enjoyed covering the Japanese language again in a video for the first time in a few years! Reflecting back on the barriers I found on my own language learning journey and of course mocking the ever-hysterical Japanese media.

How Difficult is Travelling Japan without Japanese?
🍿 WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nz22FGtdXA

In honour of this new video I thought it might be a good time to re-surface some of the old advice and videos I’ve made about learning Japanese over the years, buried away in the Patreon archives. For anyone who missed them the first time round, check it out at the end of this post!

And don't forget we've got a Patreon Exclusive episode covering How I Learned Japanese in Detail! Nearly every step I took or resource I used can be found in here:

🇯🇵 WATCH: https://youtu.be/BWhVHkyhnww

Next up we've got an outing in Hiroshima, as well as a mad dash around Tokyo to visit some hidden spots.

Lastly, thanks to those of you who were able to make it to the meet up and book signing event last weekend - almost everyone who turned up was from the Abroad in Japan Patreon and was bloody great to meet you guys and hear your stories about what you’re up to in Japan!

And for those who couldn’t make it, don’t worry there will be more events coming up in the future, including one very exciting, big, top secret special event in Tokyo in July. Trust me, its going to be fun. As ever, I will let you guys on Patreon have a heads up!

Anyway enjoy the rest of your week and speak soon!

Chris

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How to Learn Japanese | Playlist

🍿Watch: http://bit.ly/3coFtBX

BEGINNER RESOURCES🇯🇵 Human Japanese: https://www.humanjapanese.com/

If you're about to learn Japanese from scratch in the next 10 minutes, I cannot recommend Human Japanese enough. To this day, it's the best app I've ever bought. It's like a friend teaching you the language in a fun, down to earth way.  (There's also a free version as well to sample). Available on iOS, Android, PC, MAC.

🗾 Genki Textbook 1: https://amzn.to/3UWXCLV*

The most popular Japanese textbook series and easily my favourite. Fantastic book to kick off with, that covers basic vocabulary, grammar and kanji characters.

🏯 Heisig's Remembering the Kanji: https://amzn.to/3UZF0et*

The best way to memorise Kanji characters; how to write them and understand their meanings. It doesn't teach you how to read them out loud, but given there are 2,200 characters to master, it's very effective to learn the meaning and writing order first. Everyone I know who mastered Japanese to a native level, started here.

⛩️WaniKani: https://www.wanikani.com/

A more recent potential alternative to Heisig, that's proven very popular. It actually came out after I'd already learned the kanji characters, otherwise I may have used it instead. However, everyone I know still swears by Heisig - I think if used alongside the book, this could be a very effective resource.

INTERMEDIATE RESOURCES

🇯🇵 Human Japanese Intermediate:  https://www.humanjapanese.com/

The intermediate successor to the best Japanese learning app ever made. This really saved me in my second year in Japan and got me speaking with confidence in everyday life.

🗾 Genki Textbook 2: https://amzn.to/3wFLPtz*

The successor to the popular Genki 1 textbook. Again, easy to understand and a fun learning resource for mastering vocab, grammar and kanji.

⛩️ Tae Kim's Grammar Guide: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/ A fantastic resource that teaches you all the grammar you need to speak Japanese fluently and reach JLPT4 level. I go back to this more than any other app! Recommend downloading on iOS or Android as the website is a bit clunky.

🏯 An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese:  https://amzn.to/4bvERWV*

Effectively the next level in the Genki series once you've finished the first two books. An excellent resource on vocab, grammar and characters and my favourite Japanese textbook.

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