It seems the Japanese language YouTuber Cure Dolly has died. She stopped making videos about 4 months ago due to health problems, but was expected to return and was still answering questions from...
It seems the Japanese language YouTuber Cure Dolly has died. She stopped making videos about 4 months ago due to health problems, but was expected to return and was still answering questions from her community for some time.
Cure Dolly's methods and presentation were somewhat unconventional, but I learned so much from the grammar explanations in her Organic Japanese videos. Watching them before taking a "textbook" Japanese class was like taking an inoculation that made all the most confusing points perfectly clear. She was very skilled at explaining difficult language concepts in organized, memorizable ways and putting simple rules to what most learners would see as exceptions.
Some learners were put off by the strange presentation style, clickbaity thumbnails, and the android doll persona that she never broke, but if you're ever interested in learning Japanese I highly recommend looking past all that. After enough great lessons, it becomes endearing (I swear). For those who prefer a more textbook, class-prep approach done very well, I've also found the YouTuber TokiniAndy to be very helpful.
Curious if anyone else here studied Japanese, and what tools and materials you found to be the most helpful.
It seems the Japanese language YouTuber Cure Dolly has died. She stopped making videos about 4 months ago due to health problems, but was expected to return and was still answering questions from her community for some time.
Cure Dolly's methods and presentation were somewhat unconventional, but I learned so much from the grammar explanations in her Organic Japanese videos. Watching them before taking a "textbook" Japanese class was like taking an inoculation that made all the most confusing points perfectly clear. She was very skilled at explaining difficult language concepts in organized, memorizable ways and putting simple rules to what most learners would see as exceptions.
Some learners were put off by the strange presentation style, clickbaity thumbnails, and the android doll persona that she never broke, but if you're ever interested in learning Japanese I highly recommend looking past all that. After enough great lessons, it becomes endearing (I swear). For those who prefer a more textbook, class-prep approach done very well, I've also found the YouTuber TokiniAndy to be very helpful.
Curious if anyone else here studied Japanese, and what tools and materials you found to be the most helpful.