How to Learn Japanese Through Reading
Channel: Japanese Culture
Date: 2024-04-08

More About this Series: On my channel, I will be posting fun and interactive study sessions involving Japanese media (e.g. manga, music,...), but to keep up with these you will need to learn some basic principles first. That is what "The Basics" is about.

In this lesson, I will give you an overview of the most basic aspects of Japanese grammar, including verb conjugation, adjectives, particles, and so on. I will also show you how to break down sentences in Japanese by using this knowledge. 

With this lesson and the previous "Hiragana and Katakana" one, you are basically ready to start accompanying me in reading/study sessions. 

This lesson is the heaviest of all 3 I released, so you might want to rewatch the video until you absorb all the information it contains. I promise you the study sessions will not feel this overwhelming. 

A reminder that I am NOT a Japanese expert, just a student like you! So feel free to correct me if I say something wrong. 

Timestamps:
00:00 Transition from "Lessons" to "Study Sessions"
02:20 The Power of Immersion
04:03 Separating a Sentence Into Components
06:23 How Are Elements in a Sentence Sorted?
09:45 Main Particles
13:04 Some Important Aspects
14:15 About Verbal Forms
18:50 About Adjectives
19:28 Revision
22:25 Homework

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Important Notice: 
You might have noticed I covered Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, and Grammar, but there is something important that is missing, which is pronunciation. 
You should be studying pronunciation at this point in time. However, I am not the right person to be teaching you any of that. Pronunciation is something very nuanced. Knowing the theory doesn’t get one very far. 
Case in point, look at my English and how much it is affected by my accent, even though I have in my possession a Certificate in Advanced English (C1) - A person can easily tell in which module I had the lowest score, and in which one I got the perfect score, am I right? 
So no, I will not be teaching you pronunciation. 
Now, I have to say Japanese words out loud, of course, it comes with making study sessions in video format. I will kindly ask for your understanding in the sense I will be mispronouncing things sometimes. Take note of my mistakes so you don’t repeat them, and if you notice I’m always mispronouncing something, please let me know.