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Originally Posted by aphextwin
I'm looking for an easy way to re-wire my mind towards conjugations so that they become second nature. Anyone have any ideas?
Ideally, it would be some quiz/trainer/game that selects from maybe 20 of the most basic verbs and then randomly asks me for a conjugation, which I then input.
For example:
Nomu, Past Progressive Negative Polite = _______ ?
Iku, Causative Positive Plain = _______ ?
Okay, you get the point. I think by going through the same 20 basic verbs or so in all their variations, maybe an hour or two a day, I'd soon be able to quickly form words on the spot. If something exists for adjectives, too, that would be an extra but not necessary. I already tried searching and the closest idea I can find to this is to manually input the data into Anki or something, but that would be really time consuming. Thanks.
Edit: If nothing exists, what is your favorite method? I could just read a lot of sentences or listen to lots of speech, but I want something that will really sear the patterns into my brain lol. I'm guessing a trainer would be best.
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Your thinking is flawed. You do
not want to read "what is ใในใ in negative past polite form" because this will force you to actually use English to comprehend the meaning of "negative past polite" and then think about "what is polite?" "what is negative?" etc.
What you want is to just try and say random things to yourself in Japanese. Or take things in present/past and immediately convert it to past/present in your head.
This will force you to do things naturally and while abandoning English.