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Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

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Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

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Post by agnishom »

SenHeng wrote: post #75
agnishom wrote: post #74

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I don't disagree with this, but you need a "critical mass" of textbook knowledge to get started

I disagree with your disagreement. I started off by memorising the hiragana table, then went hardcore. Got a simple manga (Hikaru no go) and a Japanese to English dictionary and just winged it. Initially it took me a month to read an entire volume. It gets easier. That was 20 years ago without any of the fancy tools people have today.

I salute you for your persistence.I suspect that very few people have a similar level of persistence to read a whole book when you do not understand 9 out of 10 words

Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

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Post by vincelt »

coldblues wrote: post #15

Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese. https://learnjapanese.moe https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)

Agreed. For immersing at home, reading mangas/webtoons with an OCR translated layer and watching Japanese vlogs with dual subtitles has been effective for me.

Re: Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

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Post by gyomu »

Hamuko wrote: post #73
gyomu wrote: post #18

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The “culture” around learning Japanese is so different from other languages. There’s a large amount of software engineers studying the language, so there’s tons of apps/websites that center around it (for better or worse). The communities are also… particular. People tend to espouse certain deep beliefs or attitudes that you just don’t see for other languages (and I don’t think complexity is the reason; you don’t see…

There's no real reason to learn Finnish other than curiosity, so I'm not surprised there's no community around learning it. You can move to Finland without knowing the language at all, since everyone else around you will happily speak English with you. Hell, you can even get Finnish citizenship as long as you learn Swedish instead. And when a language is spoken by around five million people, there's no large amount o…

There absolutely are communities around learning Finnish! /r/LearnFinnish has 40k members and get daily posts, plenty of FB groups etc too.
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