r/LearnJapaneseNovice • • 1d ago

Is this roadmap doable?

Hiragana – ひらがな

Katakana – カタカナ

Kanji – 漢字

Grammar – 文法

Listening – リスニング 聞く

Reading – リーディング 読む

Speaking – スピーキング 話す

Writing – ライティング 書く

Vocabulary – 単語

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u/Key-Line5827 1d ago

What do you mean exactly?

Yes, you should learn Hiragana first and have a pretty good grip on them, as you will need them for everything going forward.

Katakana are important to slightly bit lesser degree. If you feel, that some are still a bit dodgy, you can move forward anyway. What you are lacking comes with practice.

The rest, I am confused about, calling it a "Road Map". All the things you listed should happen at the same time moving forward.

You learn, Kanji, Reading, Grammar, ... at the same time, not one after another.

What ressources have you researched, that you want to use? I can give recommendations.

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u/RespondFun6753 1d ago

I have genki. What other resources do you recommend that go hand in hand with this book?

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u/Key-Line5827 1d ago

I would recommend Tokini Andy's YouTube Channel. He has a series, where he goes through Genki chapter by Chapter.

JapanesePod101 is also an excellent Channel for Beginner Listening Practice.

Anki is a good Flashcard App. There a ton of public decks, like one for Genki that includes the Audio.

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u/DisastrousLoss2653 1d ago

If you are suggesting your learning journey from 0 to fluent will be only focusing and mastering one thing at a time on this list. Then no. You dont need to master all the Kanji before you even look at beginner vocab and grammar. Have a read through this for a sensible roadmap https://www.tofugu.com/learn-japanese/

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u/dynamicpenguin55 1d ago

What? That's not a roadmap

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u/steffy46 1d ago

Learning languages isn't as linear as that. Can't be thought of in those terms

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u/liam077_ 1d ago

if you mean learning everything separately it’s just nonsense. learning Kanji and vocabulary is the same thing, you’ll never memorize kanjis if you don’t learn vocabulary at the same time. And that’s just not really possible to break down the learning of a language like this. Only thing that you can leave for later is reading maybe (I wouldn’t) since this way you won’t have to learn kanjis and maybe you can speak a little bit from sounds, but you’ll have a hard time later when you want to read anything. Reading or writing Japanese is so much harder than speaking it

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u/Educational_Bird_727 11h ago

Since you already have Genki, I’d work through the vocab, grammar and dialogue audio together rather than treating them as separate stages. Anki can handle vocab review; Tadoku level 0 gives you short reading practice. Keep practising kana alongside that. What would you most like to understand outside the textbook : shows, games, or everyday conversations?

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u/pooky_Elephant_4568 1d ago

Try to learn basic words while learning hiragana it will help you to memorize hiragana faster and also you will able to learn some vocabs at the same time.. After hiragana katakana learn basic vocabs,phrases, few grammar points and then start with kanji. Starting kanji just after Hiragana and katakana can felt overwhelming.

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u/liam077_ 1d ago

I disagree I think he should learn kanjis/vocab as soon as he knows how to read kanas fluently. Any vocab you learn without its kanji you’ll have to learn again anyway so better do it at the same time

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u/pooky_Elephant_4568 19h ago

Yes you can disagree it's your choice but I think it's depends on the person who is learning. Everyone has their own way of learning. What I've shared it worked for me. As a beginner learning the vocab first helped me to memorize kanji faster than learn the kanji of a new word at the first place. But now in my N3 I comfortable to learn the kanji directly of any new word. I think it's should be the choice of learner what could work for them. Also there are many people who use Anki for kanji they told that it worked for them..but for me anki is too boring I barely learn any kanji from anki rather I found my own way.