Learning Japanese

 These files are available now at my Google Drive:

Many influencers/companies try to tell you that you can learn Japanese in a few weeks if you buy their services - even alongside your normal life.

Don't fall for that. It is wrong as wrong can be. Even for the basic A1 level you will need several months.

Don't forget, you also need to learn reading - and writing - necessary, if you really want to learn the language.

Writing and reading requires repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition and repetition.

For this, you need some help with prefabricated materials.

I will show you how you can make a few by yourself.

1) Hiragana and Katakana:

The best is you learn them side-by-sidhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1amUz-wHzwMXsOuNfUh6dEc2asPHSiaTO?usp=sharinge, you see か (which is Hiragana "ka") then you should be able to write "ka" in Katakana too.

2) Kanji

You want to learn the Kyoiku Kanji Level 1. If you see one of these Kanji, you should be able to tell the readings.

Basically what you need is a random list of either Kanji or Hiragana/Katana. It needs to be random or you might remember what comes after the character which you just see.

How to make random lists?

Use python. Example below in the comments is a program to produce a study list for the 80 Kanji of Kyoiku level 1.

My python level is basic so if you can do a better program, please tell me.

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import random

input_string = "あいうえおかきくけこさしすせそたちつてとなにぬねのはひふ\

へほまみむめもやゆよらりるれろわゐゑをんアイウエオカキクケコサシスセソタ\

チツテトナニヌネノハヒフヘホマミムメモヤユヨラリルレロワヰヱヲン"

def generate_random_string(input_string, length=5000):

    if len(input_string) != 96:

        raise ValueError("Input string must be exactly 96 characters long.")

    random_string = ''.join(random.choices(input_string, k=length))

    return random_string

output = generate_random_string(input_string)

for char in output:

    print(char)

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If you want to learn the Hiragana and Katakana, exchange the kanji for these characters:

あいうえおかきくけこさしすせそたちつてとなにぬねのはひふへほまみむめもやゆよらりるれろわゐゑをんアイウエオカキクケコサシスセソタチツテトナニヌネノハヒフヘホマミムメモヤユヨラリルレロワヰヱヲン

In that case, the number is 96, don't forget to change it.

When you run this program above in python you will get a list of 5000 lines, either random Hiragana/Katakana or random Kanji.

Of course, you can also make your own lists which you want to study.

Some people asked me if I could make these files available as they can't use python. So, here they are - link to my Google Drive.