In this article series, you will be guided to some optimized and intact ways to study Japanese and to maintain your Japanese skill. This article series targets overseas Japanese, intermediate and advanced Japanese learners as well as Japanese language teachers.
After acquiring basic Japanese language skills, you may feel thirsty to master Japanese. However, depending on your school's pedagogic philosophy, sometimes you will spend more time on one extreme of the Japanese learning spectrum.
Case 1) You want to know how to read Japanese and to acquire Japanese information via
reading. You will gradually get impatient if your Japanese program emphasizes conversational skills over reading skills.
Case 2) You want to learn oral communication skills. You may feel uneasy when you have
to tackle additional Japanese vocabularies to develop your reading skills.
Case 3) After completing your Japanese language course, you feel have lost confidence in
either your oral communication or reading skills.
Case 4) You are Japanese who live abroad and have good oral communication skills, but
have difficulty reading.
In all these situations, you may have tried to reinforce the skills you want. If you have not found some efficient methods so far, this series of articles will be an asset for your Japanese learning and teaching.
In this first article, you will get an overview of the information that will be covered in the series and you will also see several big topics, which will be discussed in more detail.
How To Study Japanese