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So you’ve been studying Japanese for a few months now, right? Maybe even a few years! You’re feeling pretty good about what you know…but have you ever really put it to the test? We know, not everyone can make it to Japan to test out their speaking and listening skills. But did you know that you can create an immersion environment right from your very own home?
Are you up for a challenge? Listen to today’s Cheat Sheet lesson to learn how immersing yourself in a completely Japanese world will do wonders for your confidence and skills!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Cheat Sheet to Mastering Japanese . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Cheat Sheet to Mastering Japanese #10 - Time to Take Those Training Wheels Off and Immerse Yourself in Japanese!”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Introduce yourselves in the comments section of this lesson using Japanese only! And tell us if you like the immersion method of language learning!

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tsukaima says:

I have to say, immersion is IMHO the #1 method for language learning. It is also unfortunately very difficult to achieve full immersion. It can feel difficult at first as well, so it is easy to become discouraged unless you’re in an environment where you have no choice.

When learning Spanish in college, after 3 semesters I felt I had learned very little. Then I had a professor for my 4th semester of Spanish who believed in immersion. He did not allow the use of any English in his classroom. He also did not allow us to have an English-Spanish dictionary in the classroom - we were required to use a native Spanish dictionary. Children’s dictionaries were OK, but it had to be 100% in Spanish. I learned more in that ONE semester of Spanish than in all 3 previous semesters.

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JapanesePod101.com says:

Hello Tsukaima,

I totally agree on this method. This is how I reached an intermediate level of German in just 4 months. The teachers were using only German. At the beginning I thought I was never going to learn like this, because I couldn’t understand what was going on in the classroom (I was an absolute beginner). Soon though everything started to make sense!

Stefania/JapanesePod101.com

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Simon says:

I may be the only one who did this but I learnt the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets in a very strange way. Every day I tried to learn a row of characters, what I did is simple, I wrote that same character in a whole page, then I moved to the next one and so on. After that, I wrote the whole row after repeating every single character (again, one full page for every character). In weekends I could do up to 3 rows. It took me 1 1/2 and 2 note books, but it was worth it. Although, I’m starting to get confused with some Katakana characters (you guys should add more lessons with this alphabet).

じゃまた!

PS: I’m a native spanish speaker, just in case I made some mistakes.

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JapanesePod101.com says:

Hi Simon,
Thanks for your great tips! It sounds like the hard work paid off! ;)

Jessi
Team JapanesePod101.com

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Nathaniel says:

すごい!ありがとうごじあます。

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JapanesePod101.com says:

Nathanielさん、
どういたしまして :wink:

(BTW, the last part of thank you very much in Japanese is ございます)

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

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