Hi! First of all, you're not alone in feeling like that. People ask the same question on Renshuu forums so often, I'm thinking of saving my answer and copy-pasting when needed. :)
Second of all, I promise Japanese words are not harder to learn than Swahili words, Filipino words, Italian words etc. You just need to use them a lot, otherwise your brain will see no use in keeping them stored in memory.
So, how to use them? Make them part of your life. Stick colourful post-its with their names on objects around your room - this is a chair, this is a window, this is a pen. When you walk on the street, look around and see what things around you you can name in your head, or say the colours of each car you pass by, or tell yourself what you're doing: I'm eating. I'm waiting. I'm walking. I walked yesterday. Today is a Thursday.
Also, once you have some words you can use comfortably, don't be afraid to try the other schedules in the Beginner (and later Intermediate) list. (Check them out under "Manage my schedules" at the bottom of your current schedules).
The hard part is not really to study for years but rather the beginner stage.
There are not real utimate tips that can make things "easy" but I can garantee once you're past that stage, well, it won't excessively easy but it will be a lot easier.
So use any tips and... survive? Basically x) Once you more used to Japanese overall, it will be easier. For a lot of various reasons. Like I struggled with a few words per day or even weeks, sometimes I didn't even learn new words for a week or even more but once I started to move past the beginner stage, it became much easier. And now, if I want, I can study more than a hundred words (or even a few hundreds) per week if I want to. I don't do it because it's not really a good idea most of the time but it's possible. At least if the objective is only to maintain a decent percentage of correct answer on renshuu (85-95%).
But that's because, I'm more used to Japanese and there are a lot of things that make words easier (kanji, knowing about japanese culture, being to read the JP definition, etc, etc).
Until then, the only objective is to accumulate "enough" words to practice japanese without needing a dictionary (reading, listening, grammar, etc, etc). No need to learn everything too (if you struggle with some words and don't need them right now, just block them). Grammar, for example, will be (almost) the same everywhere anyway.
So, use any tips you need to, block any difficult words that make waste too much if you need to too, whatever works for you as long as you don't overwhelm yourself. If you really need some words, immersion will make you learn them when you need to anyway. And don't worry about being slow either. Learning words at an intermediate level can be 10 time faster. There are words that I don't learn simply because I heard in a funny clip on youtube for example. A lot of words are also easier because of kanji.
And yes, it's hard. But don't let yourself influenced by the current difficulty. It just what it is. You brain need to reformat itself for Japanese. That's the hard part for beginner. And honnestly, use whatever works you at that stage, doesn't matter and don't be afraid to change your method :3
I am having trouble to, but the words I am learning can't be applied to objects like you suggested, why is rensh having me learn words i will barely use, like 忙しい instead of words you might use on a daily basis like こんにちわ?
actually konnichiwa comes in greetings. and isogashii is an adjective. they are both different parts of grammar . so , you can't really compare them. and i also think isogashii is pretty useful word. everyone is busy most of the times
i would have explained it a lot better but my english is not that good.
sorry
by the way if you want to learn specific words you can go to community lists in resources for various lists like greetings, colours , etc..
having me learn words i will barely use, like 忙しい instead of words you might use on a daily basis like こんにちわ?
You learn them not just because of you using it, but because a Japanese person would be using words and they will fly right over your head when you decide to dictate which words you think you should learn and use. This wouldn't be a good thing to do as you will get lost easily trying to be selective, making it detrimental to your education and literacy. Context is so very important. People don't use common words and baby talk into sumbmission. Sure, Japanese may have fewer words compared to other languages, but it's not less sophisticated. ○○、忙しいですか。
This would be a question asked whether you, or someone else, is occupied as you might be about to intrude.
As for the ○○ part here, this might be something one might be inclined to use the person's name to direct their attention to them, or you might be inclined to also use the very common 「すみません」before the request. But when you know enough Japanese, and enough words, you would realize that some words aren't appropriate for all contexts. Some words are used for various levels of respect, that it would be inappropriate to use すみません. That's when 申し訳ありません or 申し訳ございません would take its place. For complete strangers, ごめん or ごめんなさい would be more proper. So as much as these long words aren't common, it's worth knowing and using it apprpriately as it affects people's perception of you.
Also, 「こんにちわ」isn't technically correct. People mispell this, whether on purpose or unintentionally. It's actually 「こんいちは」or, rather, 「今日は]. And at that, this is not a word, but a phrase. There's lots of common phrases. There's lots of phrases that aren't common, but are Japanese. There's also lots of words in specific fields that most people don't use. For a Japanese person, this is just simply as comprehensible as a common English speaker knows about scientific jargon. It's not completely without meaning, but for a person in the field, they're plenty educated on the subject. This doesn't mean you just have to stick with the common ones, because again, some things will fly right over your head when a Japanese person understands them, as common speech is just merely common.
I am having trouble to, but the words I am learning can't be applied to objects like you suggested, why is rensh having me learn words i will barely use, like 忙しい instead of words you might use on a daily basis like こんにちわ?
Because renshuu has to choose some words to teach you first. Or more exactly the pre-made schedule teach words in certain order. But you absolutely don't have to if you don't want to. You're also free to create your own schedule and add the word you want to whenever you want. You can also use list made by others people too!
There are no perfect list that will satistify everyone and generaly those list have some objective behind. Like on renshuu, the pre-made word schedule are to be used with the grammar schedule for example (among other reasons). But if you don't like that order, you're free to not study like that. At some point, you will have to learn those words but if you don't to learn right now, you can always block them or just create your own list. And renshuu make it really easy to do that. But you have to do it yourself. Don't expect a perfect to fall from the sky because there isn't. There only more or less useful and interesting lisst (no perfect or optimal lists for everyone, that just doesn't exist).
