日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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>>253

I never did sentence stuff, not specifically anyway. It seems like it would be a valid way of doing things, though. I kind of ended up doing it in a more roundabout way: whenever I saw a pattern I didn't know or a word that I wasn't clear on its usage, I would look it up on ALC (alc.co.jp) and they have a very nice sentence bank that I would pull from and try to understand the word. Your mileage may vary. In any case, you don't have much to lose by trying to read something you want and just working at it. Sooner or later, you'll have to. I don't know what your total experience is, but it's good to get a basic primer through something like Genki or Tae Kim.

I played pokemon mostly because I wanted to play pokemon. If I wasn't studying Japanese, I probably would have just played the translation patch. Still, the dialogue was helpful to some degree. I did video games over a visual novel or some other media because I enjoyed them, not out of absolute efficiency.