Adverbs Everywhere
“Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.” - Timothy Ferriss
Let’s do a quick recap:
い Adjectives: Change the い → く, place it before a verb.
な Adjectives: Add a に to the な adjective (make sure there’s no な)
Nouny Adjectives: One huge mess. Step one is learning the words. Step two is using and seeing them enough to see how they all work (since they all kind of work differently… sorry about that).
For い and な adjectives, you have some rules you can (thankfully) follow. With the Nouny Adverbs / Adjectives, we’ve gone through them all and seen how they generally work, but it’ll take some time before you can use them easily. Some will come better than others, and you’ll learn to love about half of them. The other half will come more slowly. The key, though (and I can’t stress this enough) is to learn the vocab. That’ll make everything so much easier in the long run.
As for practicing adverbs, there are a couple of things you should be doing in order to get good at these.
- Make sure you know how to use adverbs when they are い or な adjectives.
- Make sure you know the い and な adjective vocab words (keep practicing them on Anki).
- Make sure you study and keep studying the “Nouny Adverbs” list.
- Review and go through the page with all the “Nouny Adverbs” examples.
Those are things you can do, but TextFugu will be helping out with this a lot as well. In future lessons, I’ll make an effort to use adverbs a lot for you so you can practice. You’ll also be getting a lot more opportunity in Season 5 to create your own content in Japanese, so if adverbs are a thing giving you trouble, you can focus on them.
So, make sure you’re doing points 1-4 (and do your job), and I’ll make sure to do my job as well. Adverbs sadly aren’t one of those things you just magically learn (especially when you add the noun-adjectives into the mix) – it’s going to be something you look at over a long period of time and absorb slowly.