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Edit: Apparently I had nothing better to do than this evening, so here's a wall of text. Hope it's useful for you.
EditII: Didn't expect so many people to look at this, either.. so I'll say: this isn't an in depth zero-to-hero guide for Japanese, this is just a tidy gathering of the path I took to learn Japanese to my current level (minus a few textbooks), which is definitely still very far from fluent. I'm personally learning Japanese for its literature, and the vast majority of what I did was aimed at getting into books as fast as possible (cough Heisig cough) -- if you don't care about reading, I'll be the first to say that a lot of what's here might not be interesting to you. Google around and see if my suggestions fit your learning style or not. Japanese is weird in that there are literally resources for everything, so I'm sure there's something that fits you.
EditIII: Just wanted to link the DJTguide, a library of tons of resources organized into different skills and stuff. If you don't like my suggestions, I'd personally start here to find something else.
intro -- textbook stuff -- post-textbook stuff -- tutoring -- loose timeline
I have lived in Japan (for school) for two years, speaking nothing before I arrived (fully intended on going to Spain instead lol)...and am now somewhere between N2/N1, which is the level of fluency required to work with Japanese businesses/join a Japanese-conducted program. At this point no conversation is a problem, I can read modern literature for enjoyment (older stuff literally employed a partially different language and requires its own study), and follow movies/comedy shows/anime without subtitles if I'm pay attention.
I didn't try nearly as hard as I could have, so I honestly think you could reach my level of "fluency" if you make a religion of it -- a research student at my university came speaking nothing one year ago and now speaks notably better than I do across the board (on behalf of being forced to communicate with people for like 12 hours a day). Granted, you don't have the luxury of multiple Japanese people needing to communicate with you in order to do their job, and thus adjusting their language to your level to communicate with you all day every day... but I still think you can learn enough in a year to thoroughly enjoy yourself, at the very least.
Here's how I'd do that.
Textbook Stuff
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004H4XI5O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
This is something that I've been working on and it's a work in progress so I make no claim to being an expert. This book was offered to me as a way of learning a new paradigm for how memory works and i'm giving it a shot. It's something that I already did at a smaller level to remember things. It's given me a deeper understanding and more tools for the toolbox. Good luck!
Yep. This method has been used apparently for millennia, and is still considered the best way. ("Memory Palace" is a more common name, but it has many less common names.)
See "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything"
> ...follows Joshua Foer's compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship.
> The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer's story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.
http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything-ebook/dp/B004H4XI5O/
Or lots of other books...I see "The Memory Palace":
http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Palace-Everything-Shakespeare-ebook/dp/B007V3FLTE
Edit: here's the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Check out Moonwalking with Einstein:
http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything-ebook/dp/B004H4XI5O
Recommended books:
Solomon's Memory Palace:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079HMMCKH
Learning Masonic Ritual:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDT0S5C
Fun read on memory work, probably at your local library, Moonwalking with Einstein:
https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything-ebook/dp/B004H4XI5O
...where he refers to the older sources Rhetorica ad Herennium: https://www.amazon.com/Rhetorica-ad-Herennium-Cicero-ebook/dp/B01IKZN3XW
and the sources summarized in Art of Memory by Frances Yates:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Memory-Frances-Yates-ebook/dp/B005TKD6UC/
The Medieval Craft of Memory looks interesting, but no time to read so far:
https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Craft-Memory-Anthology-Pictures-ebook/dp/B01AXLJDJ4
More modern approaches to the techniques are on:
https://artofmemory.com/
I recently read a book called A Mind for Numbers. It specifically is targeted at people in school who are struggling in difficult subjects (STEM specifically, but the techniques are applicable to any subject). I definitely recommend you give it a read - I'm not in school anymore, but I have found it to be relevant to my own personal studies.
If you feel your memory is really bad, look into techniques to improve it. The TED talk linked by /u/tripledolan is a good place to start. You can read the book by that same guy, Moonwalking With Einstein. It's about the national memory championships, and how people train their memories to almost superhuman levels.
Finally, if you have access to a school counselor, maybe try making an appointment with them. Poor memory function is a symptom of depression, so that may be a root cause.
I suggest looking into the techniques that memorization champions utilize. They focus less on repetition and more on how they digest information. You can check out some books like Unlimited Memory or Moonwalking with Einstein.
Hi, Aimless_Wonderer!
Well, IMO there's a couple of ways to approach it.
And while you're doing exploring those options, you can do exercises to improve your recall of that memory, maybe even try to associate it with another object that you have to keep.
One of the things that Randy Frost and Gail Skeketee talked about in their book Stuff is that compulsive hoarders actually have extremely good memories. They're just convinced (for assorted emotional and psychological reasons) that they don't, and that they'll lose memories if they get rid of the items that trigger them. So before you get rid of the item in question, see what you can do to recall the memory without it. You're already capable of recalling the memeory, you just need to take control of what triggers it.
When I was feeling blue, I would say to myself, "Let me try to remember something that made me very happy", and then consciously focus on recalling Ma's trip to Dallas. I would set aside a certain time everyday (the time spent walking the dogs after I got home) and not do anything except focus on happy memories to try to lift my mood. After a while, whenever my mantle clock dinged 7pm (time for walkies!), I would have all sort of happy memories just start bubbling up. Maybe that will work for you.
There's some good books about memory improvement out there (I have not read this one, but it's on my To-Buy list) that you might want to look into, to understand how memory works and how you can get yours to do what you need.