One-Point Japanese: the Essentials (Learn Basic Japanese)
One-Point Japanese is made to recognize and understand essential words in Japanese for everyday expressions. As a beginner, there are so many things you can do, but it's often hard to know where to start. This video gives you the word bank you need to have under 7 minutes. Everyone is busy. We make your self study more effective than ever! Try the video and feel your Japanese skyrocketing!
How to use One-Point Japanese
Normal Use
1. Play this video.
2. Look at the word and the sentence, repeat what you heard (3 times in total).
3. Check the correct meaning.
4. Complete all the word and sentences in the video.
5. Come back to the video after 2-3 days to see how many you remember.
For Speaking Practice
1. Play the video.
2. Repeat the sentence as you listen to it.
3. Complete all the words and sentences in the video.
*This practice is called shadowing. This will help you improve your listening, speaking, and sentence production, and vocabulary in one go. It's difficult at first, but don't give up until you get used to it.
For Writing Practice
1. Play the video.
2. Listen to the sentence without looking at it.
3. Write down what you hear/heard.
4. Compare it to the answer.
5. Complete all the sentences in the video.
*This practice is called dictation. This will help you improve your listening, writing, grammar, kanji, and vocabulary in one go. It might be hard at first, but it'll be easy as you get used to it.
The English translations are tiny intentionally. This is for you to process Japanese in Japanese without translating in your head. If you want to be able to use Japanese, there's no need to translate or understand in English. You want to be able to use Japanese, don't you?
Good luck with your Japanese learning journey!