Where to begin and how to start ?

[Chronitsch]

Hi everyone, first I hope this topic belongs into this subforum, if not I am very sorry

Straight ahead to go deeper into my Question:

I am Student at the 日本学 of our University in Vienna, just entered my third semester.
Problem is, my japanese is everything but good enough and I want to advance faster. So I kinda am puzzled where to begin here ^^;
At our university we work with the Bunka books, this year starting with 文化中級日本語　I but I still have Problems with some of the grammar from the previous semesters.

My biggestproblems I have with:
potentialis something like 漢字が読めません and also the quite similar passive form... and I am even scared of the causative. Are any special Lesseson that explain this?
I am my first day online here, so please excuse if the questions are silly.

Another problem, I have seen a topic about that but I am still confused is the が　when it is used as in my exmple sentence above, sometimes I just can't figure out if it is が or　は. Is there an easy way so I never ever mix that up?
I feel so silly when I mix them up >_<

[watermen]

Hi everyone, first I hope this topic belongs into this subforum, if not I am very sorry

Straight ahead to go deeper into my Question:

I am Student at the 日本学 of our University in Vienna, just entered my third semester.
Problem is, my japanese is everything but good enough and I want to advance faster. So I kinda am puzzled where to begin here ^^;
At our university we work with the Bunka books, this year starting with 文化中級日本語　I but I still have Problems with some of the grammar from the previous semesters.

My biggestproblems I have with:
potentialis something like 漢字が読めません and also the quite similar passive form... and I am even scared of the causative. Are any special Lesseson that explain this?
I am my first day online here, so please excuse if the questions are silly.

Another problem, I have seen a topic about that but I am still confused is the が　when it is used as in my exmple sentence above, sometimes I just can't figure out if it is が or　は. Is there an easy way so I never ever mix that up?
I feel so silly when I mix them up >_<

Jpod101 has many lessons explaining this, I can't remember all, but here are some you may try:

Beginner Season 1 lesson 154-159
Lower Intermediate lesson 15
Intermediate lesson 15

There are more, I just don't know where they are, I knew this because I just recently went through it, hope that help.

You may want to try listening to intermediate level and see where your level is. If you have no problem with all the intermediate lessons, I guess your Japanese is pretty advanced. The intermediate lessons progress pretty fast, at about lesson #20, the conversation is almost all in Japanese, and I personally find it very tough and challenging. I am still struggling through it.