Unlocking Japanese: Tricks

As described in Japanese Learning Loop#, achieving learning independence is fundamental to unlocking language acquisition.

The most important thing is being able to navigate the vast amount of resources available to you on the Internet without getting lost or incorrect advice.

These are the steps that I follow whenever I get stumped by something new in Japanese that I cannot understand.

Also I recommend reading Practical Tips to Facilitate Early Reading# if you are looking for more general practical tooling to help you read.

2020-10-10

Optimal Reading Immersion - Narrow Reading
- If you feel lost about what your study routine should look like, on the other hand, I recommend giving Japanese Learning Loop# a read, and bookmark the Unlocking Japanese: Tricks# page to consult whenever you get stuck in your immersion.
Japanese Primer
- Bookmark Japanese - Frequently Asked Questions and Unlocking Japanese: Tricks# and read them every time you are confused about something.
Fitting Bunpro in your study routine
- For this reason, I do not recommend studying the grammar itself using bunpro. It really only works well when used as a list of ordered grammar points that you can study somewhere else, and then review the example sentences on it (those are usually okay). I recommend finding some supporting material for your grammar explanations. You have other ways(Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#) to get that, like a textbook.
- Search for it on the master reference (more on this in Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#)
Japanese Sentence Structure: だ Explained
- From this section onwards, I assume that the reader has a more adequate mastery of the fundamentals of the Japanese language. Examples and explanations will refer to grammatical rules that, if unclear, should be looked up by the reader as an exercise of independence (Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#).
Full Timeline

Japanese Learning Loop#
- No matter what approach you are looking at, to achieve fluency in a language the most important thing is being able to achieve learning independence. (Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#) In other words, being able to sustain your own studies and maintain a tangible process of consistent self-improvement feedback loop.
- Whenever you find some word or grammar you do not understand, look it up using the approaches explained in Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#.
Japanese#
- Unlocking Japanese: Tricks#
Japanese - Frequently Asked Questions#
- If what you’re looking for is not here, consider also reading the Unlocking Japanese: Tricks# page.