Why can't I really retain Japanese?

Question

I purchased the Pimsleur CDs to learn some basic Japanese for my Japanese excursion this summer. Problem is, I am at unit 3 out of 18, and I have a hard time remembering what I learned after the 30-minute lesson is over. I do just find recalling during the program. I even repeat the program 1 or 2 times. Why can't I learn a foreign language?

Answer 1

You can learn a foreign language. You just need to find a way to practice and memorize that works for you.

First, Japanese is not a western language, and so the words don't seem to have any relationship to English, like European languages do.

Also, one 30 minute lesson can't teach you that much. You need to spend a few hours a day listening, and then a few more hours practicing speech.

Find a partner to help you study, preferably a Japanese speaker. Go to a bookstore and find a Japanese workbook for writing (or on the web), see if you can get one for the particular CD Series you are using.

That way, every day, you can listen, speak, memorize, write, and converse with a partner. If you can do this 2 to 4 hours every day for a few months, then you'll be speaking, reading and writing Japanese.

When you get to japan, you will have a lot of people willing to help you make your Japanese better.

Good Luck.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Maybe you're more of a visual person. I can't remember anything said to me for more than about ten minutes, it seems, but I have near-perfect recall with anything written. Also, when switching over o something really odd like Japanese...I'm a grammar person, and I had to tackle the basic grammatical structure of Japanese before any of the rest of it made sense to me. Living Languages makes a nice sort of textbook with such lingustic ins and outs.

Answer 4

before you begin you have to familiarize yourself with the language first. Learn words and when you do the Pimsleur it will be easier to remember the vocabulary

Answer 5

I have an uncle who has the same problem you need to drill it through your head over and over like him he also has problems retaining said languages so I suggest say it read it and write it then repeat you should do better this was

Answer 6

if you don't have any Asian blood in you, you will never be able to learn this language. It was scientifically proven. However, at least you have eyebrows!