Article from NHK Easy talking about back problems, heavy textbooks and a policy change from MEXT to deal with it. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list.
Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article – Earthquakes in Hokkaido
I’ll read through the article explaining words and grammar along the way. This is an article from NHK Easy talking about earthquakes in Hokkaido. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list and a link to the article.
Kanji – How to learn and the materials I recommend
Not sure how to learn Kanji? Finding your progress is slow? This video will show you the ways I learnt over 2000 kanji and the books and materials I used.
I got JLPT 2級 in 2008 and JLPT N1 in 2020. Of course these exams require you to know a lot of kanji in depth and so you need a way to approach learning so many bits of information.
Counting to a trillion and above in Japanese
Introductory lesson for those who want to learn to count to ridiculously high numbers. I’ll be continuing on with this in future videos to learn how to count objects as well.
世界で一番長生きの男性 — Article Read-through
Article from NHK Easy talking about the former Guinness World Record Holder for Oldest Living Man
A complete guide to 1700 kanji through Kanjidamage.com – Part 1
Here is the link to Part 2.
This will be a video series on how to learn kanji from absolute scratch. I’ll be running through the website kanjidamage.com as this is the best online free kanji program I have found. In this video I’ll be running through the way to use the site as well as explaining how kanji works and how to effectively study kanji.
As I explain in the video, the ‘usual’ way to learn kanji, for example a kanji textbook, is one of the worst ways to learn kanji. That may seem confusing, and considering its how Japanese people learn kanji, you’d think it would be the best way, just copy what the native speakers do… right? wrong.
Japanese people learn kanji despite using textbooks, and the fact that they are native speakers helps mask this weakness, never mind the thousands of hours of work that even Japanese people have to put into learning kanji throughout school (and cram school). so work smarter, not harder, and see how easy learning kanji can be through this website!
There is an official kanjidamage deck for anki which I would highly recommend to help you practice.
A complete guide to 1700 kanji through Kanjidamage.com – Part 2
Part 2 of the video series on how to learn Kanji from absolute scratch. I’ll be running through the website kanjidamage.com as this is the best online free kanji program I have found. We’ll finish off the How To section of the website and look at the other features.
Learning through input — Satorireader.com
A great website that helps you learn Japanese through short stories with hyperlinked vocabulary, grammar explanations and spaced interval repetition features built in – plus it’s (basically) free!
I would also recommend the below video as it shows you the science behind the website.
24時間欠席連絡自動受付 (24 hour automated absence notification system) — NHK Easy Article Read-through
Article from NHK Easy talking about 24 hour automated absence notification system.
Hospital Opening Days —Article Read-through
Article from NHK Easy talking about a public policy issue: hospital opening times over extended holidays. We’ll be going through this article in detail.
The description box on the youtube video has some links to materials for this video.