I’ve been trying to learn grammar for nearly half a year, but I feel like slamming my head against a wall every time I try to actually read something.
Like—I get the general context of a sentence, but I keep messing up really basic concepts, as in whether a sentence is positive or negative, or what tense the sentence is in. I find myself reading sentences 95% sure of what they mean, before looking at the translation to find that the sentence means the opposite of what I thought, or sometimes the meaning is something else entirely.
I’m past the Wk halfway mark now, and I feel like I still don’t get some N5 concepts.
I started off the same as a lot of other people did, with Tae Kim—which I found too vast to take in. I even bought a copy of みんなの日本語 but haven’t even finished the first lesson.
Towards the end of last year, I was almost half my way through this playlist—it’s by a channel called Nihongoal on Youtube—but as the content started getting tougher, older concepts started slipping out of my mind.
I’m planning to reset and try out Cure Dolly’s series next, but I’m wondering whether it’s going to lead to the same memory loss as last time.
Morale’s low, and Wk’s really starting to feel like a bunch of random words I’m learning without the means to stitch them together.
I’d really appreciate any advice on how to git gud at grammar.
PS. I still haven’t learnt how to write—I struggle with hiragana—mostly because of the amount of time I feel it will take. Which played a huge part in me dropping みんなの日本語. Is learning to write to learn from a textbook worth it?