If you've already studied a bit of Japanese, you 'd know that Japanese is not phonetically consistent. In dictionaries like Takoboto and Anki decks, 嫌 can be pronounced as いや. But in the sentence, 私が嫌われているる理由, here 嫌 is pronounced as きら. Reading words in isolation therefore, can become problematic, especially because just learning one way of pronunciation will not automatically make you be able to pronounce the other one. So, what can you do?
In everyday cases, you can copy-paste a given sentence to a website called jpdb.io , which will show you the correct way of pronunciation and it's meaning.
However, if you're a complete beginner and you don't know what to learn first, we have you covered. Head over to our Contents page (click here). Our chapters are categorised by difficulty levels, so you know exactly where to start. And, they're also completely free. No paid content, so rest assured. Once you have mastered the basics, you will be able to focus on what's really important instead of trying to understand the pronunciation.
Now, on to the main topic. The easiest way to learn Japanese early on is to study and understand the sentence structure. Once you read enough examples (in an efficient way of course), you will have an innate feeling of how a sentence is supposed to be spoken. The good thing is that basic sentence structure can be understood very early on in your language learning journey. To be exact, by the time you complete Japanese N5, you will have a good understanding on how sentences work, which will speed up learning N4 and beyond. We have a big list of chapters on understanding sentence structures so feel free to check them out.
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