How to Become Fluent in Japanese in Just 1 Year
One year. This number is beautiful. Becoming fluent in this perfect amount of minimal time sounds like a dream. A lot of modern products and sites make the promise of fluency in a year (sometimes even less). I’ve always been jealous, because if they can make you fluent in one year, I should be able to as well.
Since creating Jalup, I’ve continually brainstormed on how I can make everything efficient and faster. Organize it in a way to not waste a single second of your time, and make sure that one minute of Jalup is packed with unparalleled dense studying. I’ve tried long and hard to get it down to that magical number – one year. So you can start January 1st and be finished by December 31st. Then you are off to enjoy your favorite anime, manga, and video games.
Finally, I’ve solved the problem. Now, I too can make the same guarantee: If you study on Jalup, using the below simple 3 steps, I guarantee you 100% that you will become fluent in just one year.
I’ve even created a super fancy info-graphic to lay out the entire process for you.
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.
Got eeeeeeem!
I could see you possibly achieving this if you;
A. Live in Japan and don’t have to pay bills
B. Studied grammar, kanji, reading/writing practice every day for 5 hours
C. Had a language tutor and hung out with friends who could help you learn to speak correctly
and D. Watched a ton of anime ;)
You can do it guys!
But seriously, 1 year would be nearly impossible to achieve lol
I want to know how you can accomplish A.
Haha. I knew from the title this had to be a joke article. In all seriousness though, someone with a lot of time on their hands and a huge amount of dedication could achieve a lot in one year.
The only true way to become near fluent in one year is to be a Korean native speaker.
Being a Korean native speaker, while helpful with similar structure, isn’t a free pass though. I have Korean friends who struggled just as much as anyone else learning the language.
September fools day.
Or maybe next product offered on Jalup is a time machine…
It all depends on what you mean by fluent. Babble a bunch of nouns and verbs together in an ungrammatical mish mash…. that’s fluent, it’s just not Japanese.
Actually, as fluency is defined arbitrarily you can become fluent in any language in less than a year, and the best part is you don’t even have to work harder, just set the bar lower!
As ridiculous as it sounds, this is the philosophy behind some quack language learning guides I came across, they just don’t say it as directly.