Vocabulary... Expanding your vocabulary is a very important and time consuming task when learning Japanese, it will allow you to understand more. There aren't just one way of saying things, in most cases there are more, if you only know how to say something only one way, your understanding of Japanese will suffer. Just think of how many ways you can say "I went to the shops and bought a rubber", I can think of lots, for example; "I travelled to the store and purchased an eraser". These two sentances mean the exact same thing, the only difference is the second one has four words that are different to the words in the first. This is why you must learn vocabulary.

Now the big queston, "but how?!" Well, let me help you there, I suggest getting yourself a beginners Japanese dictionary (if you don't already have one) and to carry it around in your bag with you, through out the day. As you go about your day, always think "how do I say this in Japanese?" If it is a single word then use your dictionary to look it up, the act of doing this will help you remember the word as you actively experience it and then manually look it up. If it's a whole sentence, go for it! Although you will need to have at least basic grammar down.

Of course you can also look words up and write them down when you are studying too. Whatever floats your boat! And now for a new section to my posts, "Random Japanese". Here I will psot a random word, or gramatical point etc. in Japanese, who knows you might learn something!  

This posts Random Japanese is: 日本語　- Japanese (As in the language), pronounced 「にほんご」」　Or to the romaji users "Nihongo".