Complete Beginner

Japanese
#1

Hey everyone,

I’ve just started with bunpro and I’m level 3 on wanikani. So, obviously a complete beginner. I think I messed up my reviews on bunpro since I already have 122 at level 5. I thought I had to add every vocab word from every grammar lesson so… whoops.

My question for you all is, what should I be doing for listening practice? My routine right now is just doing bunpro lessons and wanikani each day. I listen to a little of nihongo con topei. Any other suggestions to a routine or daily practice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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#2

I don’t think you have messed anything up! My limited experience with bunpro and more experience with wanikani is that a little over 100 is fairly standard. It’s a lot but you do get used to it! And if you think it’s too much, you can always do fewer lessons and that will result in fewer reviews! It takes a little bit of time to fix the issue and let it propagate down the chain, but please take it at a pace that will not burn you out! You’ll learn more in the long run if you do it that way. I say that as I’ve burnt out so many times that I’ve made an embarrassingly small amount of progress compared to how long ago I’ve started out learning japanese. But oh well! There’s always the next day to learn from your (or other people’s! lol) mistakes!

I don’t have much advice about the listening practice though, I am very interested in responses myself! Hopefully you can get some good advice! Have a good day :slight_smile:

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#3

Teppei is great as a complete beginner. He talks about casual topics in a slow, mild manner that makes every word super clear. Once you’re more comfortable, either move to his intermediate podcast, or look up videos about topics that interest you on YT - there’s lost of content there made for learns on about any topic possible

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#4

Thank you for the response! I’m trying to temper my expectations. Of course I’d like to be able to speak Japanese eventually but for now I’d really like to just be able to listen to native content and understand what’s being said.

I’m sure you are way further along than you are giving yourself credit for!

#5

About how much listening each day would you suggest? I listen to a few of his podcasts on and off throughout the day.

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#6

If you repeat each sentence out loud, trying to match the speed of the speaker, you’ll get a great buff listening.

Also for new topic, on bunpro, you can set a setting to hide all the text, so before you open and read example sentences (when you just add a new topic) you can listen to each, and try to catch what they say.

I love this listening based practice as they as strengthen all the other skill massively as well. I would only do that for my studying if it just wasn’t boring doing that as an only thing

But if you don’t like any of this, your current routine is perfectly normal, just do what you can to get the most interest and concentration, and that will buff your studies

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#7

Just to check: did you happen to link Wanikani to Bunpro and set it to add the Wanikani words to your Bunpro reviews? That can sure add a lot of reviews to your pile.

#8

No, I did not link it.