tips for learning japanese

hello everyone 

and welcome to my blog . let's start this post with a short story on why i started learning Japanese :
When i was 13 or 14 i started watching anime , the first one that i watched called death note but it was with English so i didn't have any idea on how Japanese language is . After that i entered to the anime world , Yes , i became a crazy otaku .I started loving Japanese culture , their food , outfit , the Lolita fashion .... and now in 2019 i start my first step in learning this language ,  without forgetting that i had a lot of benefits from watching anime like learning the basic word like arigato= thank you , ohaiougozaimasu = good morning , baka = idiot ......

in the time of written this post , i want you to know that i am not fluent but i want to share my humble experience with learning  maybe it can help you .

-the first thing  i advice you to learn is the letters so in each time  you learn a new word you can write it and like that you will be able to memorize the letters easily during the process of learning .
 there is 3 categories of Japanese letters :

1- Hiragana : this one is the most important , most of Japanese words are written with this letters . If you have a problem to remember it , you can check this webstie . Here some examples 
 by the way do you like my hand writing ??

2- Katakan : this letters are used to write foreign names and words . Some Japanese words have origin form other languages like dress = doresu ,  bus = basu , fork = fooka ,   coffe = cohi 

Till now i still didn't learn the katakan's letters .

ps : my friend wrote my name in katakan 

3- Kanji : oh the problem , kanji is not a letter , it's actually a word . Kanji origine is from Chinese language but this doesn't mean that all the Japanese kanji are used now in Chinese , some of them are but the pronunciation is different  .
 now how to learn kanji  , i prefer to learn 1 kanji each day so you can remember them easily and like that you won't forget it . 
Go to pintrest or google images and write "kanji learning" . The pictures that you find will help you a lot .
you can follow also some instgram accounts that teach you how to write and pronounce the kanji like : shioh shodo

Also you can use this book , it's very helpful , i don't remember from where i downloaded it  . 

And don't forget about how much some apps can help you , like kanji tree. i don't use app too much 

here some kanji that i learned .

- choose a perfect YouTube channel to learn from :

 at the beginning i started learning form Japanese society channel but when i arrived to lesson 10 , things start getting harder so i switched to an Arabic channel called seieddo sensei. 
The difference between the 2 channels is that the first one  you like memorize the sentence as it is so you will not understand why they order the words like this  , but the second explain exactly how to forme sentence , it explains how to use this letter  , how to write sentence . for example : 
1-wa always comes after the subject and it's written like ha in hirgana but it pronounce wa , 
2-de after place or like when i say i write with a pen 
3- but if i want to say i am with my friend , i use in this case "to" which mean with  
4- ni for  places 
and other letter like e , o ... 
so if you speak Arabic i advise you to start learning from the second channel .

-follow people on twitter who are interested in learning Japanese :
so you can help each other . Also follow Japanese people who are interested in learning your native language . You can help them and ask them for help .i always interact with my Japanese friends who  learn Arabic and i pass a good time correcting their mistakes in Arabic but also i learn new words from their tweets . 

- search for "simple Japanese" in pintrest where you can find pictures that help you to learn some expression  with easy and fun way .

this is the end of the post , hope that you like it .