Read The Kanji

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! I have a little bit more I found online to help you guys with the Japanese language and I am pretty sure this is something that we all probably struggle studying...Kanji!

I struggle harshly trying to study kanji because there are so many meanings to just one kanji! I think the reasons I have a hard time studying kanji because kanji is complicated and frustrating for me to understand. There are so many meanings and ways of pronouncing them depending on the kanji they are compound with. I tried and I tried and I tried and I feel like giving up!! But, I know for a fact that I can't because I need to know this because my dream is to live in Japan.

So, to help you guys with kanji and also to help and improve my Japanese, there is this amazing website called "Read The Kanji". To visit the site please CLICK HERE.

I have experienced with this site before and I still do to help me learn kanji. It is very simple and easy to use and I find it fun to learn with this site. When you sign up you will be practicing your Hiragana and Katakana and basically what they will do is show you the character and you type in the romaji. It is very simple! The more you get correct you will start to level up. Soon, it would get more difficult and you can change between Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji anytime.

There is also a part on the site where you can a get a chart and see all the kanji on all the different difficulties. It is really amazing and I have learned a lot from it. Because I have a hard time remembering all the meanings and stuff, I try to learn 7 kanji a week which means I study 1 kanji a day. Soon, when I improve a little better learning kanji and catching on then I will try to learn more in a week. But, there are many websites out there that will help you learn kanji but, this is one of them I am recommending on my blog that I want to you guys to check out and let me know your opinion on the teachings. It is basically meant for you to learn the new kanji and it helps you remember it.

Here is a screen shot of how they teach you new kanji from the chart:

Here is also how they test you on the kanji and your understanding of reading kanji in a sentence:

I highly recommend this site if you are trying to improve your understanding to the kanji so there are not much of a frustration and complication. And also if you are trying to increase the amount of kanji you know.

This is all for this article on Read The Kanji on Liv N' Luv Japan!! ^_^

JapanesePod101

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I want to continue doing more for the Japanese language and helping you guys find more reliable resources to help motivate you to continue your studies of Japanese.

JapanesePod101 usually teaches mostly vocabulary, grammar, and how to write hiragana, katakana, and kanji. They have a YouTube channel with many videos to teach you but, their website has way more features. It is free to sign up but, I don't know if all the features on the site is free if I remember clearly. I am also a user of JapanesePod101 myself. Here is a sample video of how they teach the vocabulary on YouTube:

I recommend this if you are trying to increase your vocabulary.

And here is one of their latest videos on YouTube and it last around 14 minutes and it's more of a lesson than simple vocabulary:

I wouldn't really highly recommend it but, on a scale I see it as average. But, that is just my opinion! ^_^ But, I recommend it for light learning! ^_^

I will try to find more resources for studying and learning Japanese!!! GANBATTE KUDASAI!!!

JapanSocietyNYC

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Yesterday, I wasn't able to post anything because it was a Sunday and the library was closed but, I had plenty of time to think about what I wanted to post more of on my blog. I see my blog as 80% of pop culture and entertainment such as celebrities, music, anime, gaming, etc. and I never really put much work into posting more of traditional culture and the Japanese language. So, today I thought I should post about the Japanese language!

There is this YouTube channel I am subscribed to that teach you lots about the Japanese language and culture and it is entertaining and really fun to watch for me that I sit for hours just learning Japanese. The channel can be for people who is just starting to learn Japanese and for those that are on the intermediate level and is more advanced as well. I see myself as an intermediate when it comes to Japanese because I can understand Japanese very well but I would understand it way better if I had the ability to read kanji and to learn more advance grammar techniques.

There videos are really simple and really easy to understand and the videos are not long or time consuming, the videos usually last around 2-3 minutes. So, that you can get a experiment of what the language videos is about, here is a very basic and simple video of how they teach you the plain basics. This is also the first video of one of the language videos and the playlist is called, "Waku Waku Japanese".:

I say that I highly recommend this YouTube channel if you are learning Japanese and you are just starting to learn and just a beginner. (^_^)

I'm also going to try my best to find more resources and ways to help you guys learn Japanese. From videos, websites, books, etc!

Thank you guys for reading!! And for you Japanese language learners, GANBATTE KUDASAI NE!

Rocket Languages:Japanese

Hello everyone~! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan~! Today, I want to be able to inform you guys a little more about the Japanese language for those who are eager to learn it. I got many suggestions for those who want more on Japan the country itself, its language and its culture. So, most of you would also like to know more about the traditional but modern culture. So, I will start out with the Japanese language. I want to show you guys this Japanese language learning product, Rocket Languages!!









With Rocket Languages: Japanese, you will be able to learn how to speak and understand Japanese in no time! When I first became interested in learning Japanese, I thought I should find something that would really help me learn Japanese the right way. Rocket Languages: Japanese was my head start and my beginning in my Japanese learning. It would teach you the basics to begin with and starts you out real nice and simple such as teaching you "hello" and "how are you". And teaching you the difference between Hiragana and Katakana and how to use it. My Japanese became really good by beginning with this.

It is basically an audio lesson which makes it even more better! With some websites that haves audio, the audio is usually bad when you hear it and might not be natural most of the time and doesn't sound human. But, with Rocket Languages: Japanese audio, it is clear and haves native Japanese speaker accent. It teaches you throughout the whole entire audio in a fun and effective way. It has to separate audios. One with the whole lesson and one with the dialogue spoken twice (in normal speed and slow speed). It also shows you the dialogue so you can be able to read it and it shows you the English version, the romaji version, and the version containing all Hirgana, Katakana and Kanji.

I would recommend this to anybody but, this do cost (click here to find out more). I have never bought it before but, if you go to there website (click here) you can have a free 6 day trial (which I have used ^_^) and it really amazing!! In my opinion, it is better than Rosetta Stone because you actually can learn something without knowing nothing and getting Rosetta Stone and its barely teaching you anything! I highly recommend learning with Rocket Languages Japanese!! It even also haves a forum, quizzes, practice, etc!! ^_^