I've tried using a few different methods to learn Japanese over the past few months, but I don't think I actually completed any of them.
With Rosetta Stone, I got bored of it on the second unit I think, and just haven't returned to it.
With Pimsleur's, I was trying to do 1-2 lessons a day, which was going somewhat alright until I got to lesson 11 I think. I basically listened to the entire lesson, barely understood much of it at all, got demoralized, and didn't return to it :/
With Genki, I only read about 40 pages of it on a bus ride. Wasn't too bad I guess, just haven't returned to it yet.
Human Japanese (Android app) was possibly the funnest course I tried. The lessons aren't too long, and the flash card games/vocabulary quizzes at the end of some lessons were pretty quick and fun too. I did manage to finish this.
I think I like reading and learning things, when lessons are generally small. This way, I can do a lesson, take a small break, and possibly go for another lesson and repeat. With longer lessons, they tend to "drag out" I guess and I end up getting bored after a while.
With Rosetta Stone (I haven't used the program in a while), the Core lesson would have like 40 slides to go through. I used to do about 15-20 (or however much I could sit through), and then pick it up tomorrow. The lessons after that had less slides (9-20 possibly) and were funner to go through.
Pimsleur's would start to get boring around 15-20 minutes of listening, and lessons are usually 25-30 minutes. I tried pausing it about halfway and then picking up on it another time, but this didn't work out too well on whatever lesson I tried this on, and I ended up being confused throughout that lesson.
Human Japanese I just did a lesson right before I went to bed since they were somewhat quick to go through.
Anyone happen to have any suggestions as to how/what I can study Japanese?
With Rosetta Stone, I got bored of it on the second unit I think, and just haven't returned to it.
With Pimsleur's, I was trying to do 1-2 lessons a day, which was going somewhat alright until I got to lesson 11 I think. I basically listened to the entire lesson, barely understood much of it at all, got demoralized, and didn't return to it :/
With Genki, I only read about 40 pages of it on a bus ride. Wasn't too bad I guess, just haven't returned to it yet.
Human Japanese (Android app) was possibly the funnest course I tried. The lessons aren't too long, and the flash card games/vocabulary quizzes at the end of some lessons were pretty quick and fun too. I did manage to finish this.
I think I like reading and learning things, when lessons are generally small. This way, I can do a lesson, take a small break, and possibly go for another lesson and repeat. With longer lessons, they tend to "drag out" I guess and I end up getting bored after a while.
With Rosetta Stone (I haven't used the program in a while), the Core lesson would have like 40 slides to go through. I used to do about 15-20 (or however much I could sit through), and then pick it up tomorrow. The lessons after that had less slides (9-20 possibly) and were funner to go through.
Pimsleur's would start to get boring around 15-20 minutes of listening, and lessons are usually 25-30 minutes. I tried pausing it about halfway and then picking up on it another time, but this didn't work out too well on whatever lesson I tried this on, and I ended up being confused throughout that lesson.
Human Japanese I just did a lesson right before I went to bed since they were somewhat quick to go through.
Anyone happen to have any suggestions as to how/what I can study Japanese?
