At least you tried, user. You know you can't do it

I actually got baby tier (aka: what's mostly used in anime) jap speak down thanks to watching anime. (when fansubs still existed and some of em cared enough to be accurate)
Still can't read for shit tho. Won't ever unless I properly start studying.
Same for deciphering non-babbie tier speech.

Actually I didn't even try.

I can defeat dekinai-chan. My JP friends believe in me.

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Almost at 50% with RTK thanks to the Anki magic, just 5 weeks more and the real fun will begin

Anyone has any tips for starting to study vocab after RTK?

I haven't opened Anki in two days.

Jokes on you. I read Japanese light novels daily and I've gotten pretty good at it.

Listening comprehension is still far behind thou.

I shitpost on Yea Forums fluently for many years now and yet my listening comprehension of English is shit.

>tfw I do both

Progressing much faster in Mandarin than Japanese tho.

Simply because that language is MUCH MORE consistent than Japanese, especially their horrible interpretation of Kanji.

I've been doing Anki for a month now and yet I feel like i'm barely learning anything
is there something else I should be doing

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What are you doing? Kanas? Radicals? RTK? Kanji readings? Vocab?

I've just been doing 2k/6k after learning hiragana and katakana

Learn grammar then get reading, user.

STOP
SUMMONING
THE PIC

Actually read things rather than trying to memorise vocabulary.
Anki is for remembering things you've learned, not for learning. It's poor at that because the lack of context which makes it a good test for memory makes it poor for establishing it in the first place.

Sometimes I feel like it really is impossible. I made it, learned Japanese, went to Japan to study, I can read novels easily, even official documents, but I still can't catch all the nuances in conversation, still don't know any slang, and stutter whenever I have to speak.

I just try and do my best
because in the end
i'm sure there will be a way to install languages into your brain

How much time to you spend talking to Japanese people casually? Stuff like MMOs are a blessing in this regard because you can talk to Japanese people in casual environments with lots of slang and you don't have to travel across the globe to do it.

Work though genki and other textbooks properly (don't skip over parts you think you know already), try and consume a variety of different media. don't just stick to manga or whatever. Don't go overboard with anki. Also when you're reading give it some time before you look a word up, it will be much more memorable if you can recall it yourself.

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Most of Yea Forums can't understand nuance or speak without stuttering in their native language.

Autistic girls are the cutest.

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Truly a dead board

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>Yea Forums
>girls

where is owlman?

>still don't know any slang
oi korraaa temeee
kuso boke

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I tried the same thing, but I gave up after a week because I wasn't comfortable studying something I didn't understand. Also, fuck all the different ways to count something.

What I did was to start learning grammar, you don't need to know vocab or kanjis to do it, with the kanas is more than enough.

I also started at the same time with RTK, studying 25 characters each day.

I reached today the 915th, and it feels fucking great to start making sense of a text full of moon runes, even If I can't still read anything at all

So I'd advice you to stop trying to grind the vocab in your brain before having a solid base to work with, and start studying grammar and finding some way that suits you to remember the fucking kanjis

It shouldn't take you more than 2 or 3 months, I use this website and it works great hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/index.html (The updated RTK list + the koohii stories)

Don't give up, user!

>Yea Forums
>not little girls

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I always had a mental barrier that made me more hesitant to broach topics or mention things in Japanese that I'd have no trouble talking about in English.
Thanks for the suggestion, though. I hadn't even realised that people still played MMOs these days.

>I use this website and it works great hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/index.html (The updated RTK list + the koohii stories)

And, of course, you should also use an Anki deck, this is the one I'm using ankiweb.net/shared/info/1862058740

>I can read novels easily, even official documents
I'm sure for most of Yea Forums that's the sort of level we want.
It's not like we talk to people in our native language anyway so the speaking side feels irrelevant.

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I took 2 years of ASL and Spanish in high school and another year of Spanish in college, no way in hell I'm learning a 4th language with even less utility that doesn't even use normal letters for writing.

>scribble writing
Only learn to speak and hear it.
Fuck writing that shit.

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There is one MMO the JPs still play that I consider to be pretty fun and very Yea Forums. They're really friendly too, I don't even know Japanese like you do and yet they're nice and patient enough to talk to me a little with me only know hiragana, katakana, and infant level of Japanese.

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Not really.

And what's the utility of spanish? Unless you like traveling to latin america or spain.

I'll make it eventually
we're all gonna make it bros

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Considering text turns up enough in anime you'd still need subs if you can't read it.

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I won't lie, it scares me a little to think of reading without at least a couple thousands of vocabulary words already in my brain

Should I grind anki for a couple of months? Or just grab a dictionary and try to read Yotsuba or some shit?

I don't think RTK is that useful. It doesn't teach you any Japanese, and the skill it tells you to focus on (producing a kanji from a keyword) is not actually ever useful. Also the jouyou kanji are neither a core of common kanji nor a comprehensive list of useful ones
I don't think it's a total waste, but nor do I think it's a good use of a beginner's time.

Why should I learn Japanese? To watch anime? because if so lol

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you don't live in North America?

No. But don't most hispanic people living there speak english?

I'm curious to know how much the rest of the world knows about China's one belt one road crap
t. aiwanese

I'm showing signs of strain. I have gone from an hour each day to an hour every other day of study.

You're going to be looking up most of the words you see anyway even if you spend years grinding your soul to dust in Anki.
Manga is good, as the pictures provide context and a lot of it has furigana on everything, Yotsuba included. Yotsuba will also teach you that Japanese written purely in kana is painful so you might appreciate kanji more.

If you think about it 1 hour a day is not a lot. I go to the gym 5 days a week for 1.5 hours and it goes by pretty fast. The main thing for me at least is to stay away from the fucking PC because I'm a weak man and get distracted easily.

Do something fun that uses Japanese. That's presumably the point for you after all. If you're grinding Anki or textbooks for an hour a day you'll mostly just learn to hate Japanese.

What'd you suggest, then?

I'm going to finish the bloody thing because I'm already in the half point, but I'm curious of the alternatives

>somebody suggested Mandarin
>nobody posts the cautionary tale

豈我に習得ず候や。止む可し。

I have a habit of ending my sentence with っす instead of です because it's easier and shorter. My countrymen like to abbreviate words and shits, so I guess It's in my blood to do this. Anyone living in Japan have the same issue?

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それな

>their horrible interpretation of Kanji
I haven't thought this for so long, but is this bait?

Just pick something up and start trying to read it, I've found stuff that deals with everyday situations the easiest to read. If you really have no idea where to start genki is great for getting more comfortable reading and listening.
Just use anki for stuff you keep coming across but never remember, grinding just becomes a massive chore.

Learn some grammar and read things, looking up enough words to understand what's written. Expect to get better, but don't expect miracles, this shit takes time.
You'll see kanji you don't know. But so what? You know the basic rules of stroke order, which is enough for most algorithms to recognise what you draw, and that's the only way you'd be able to look the words up anyway. Or from the furigana reading.

im reading the arslan senki novels right now, its a damn good fantasy series from the same writer as legend of galactic heroes. good for picking up some fancier vocabulary.

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>>You're going to be looking up most of the words you see anyway even if you spend years grinding your soul to dust in Anki.
I was going that route for a while until I realised that even after getting near 2k I'm lucky to get any full page I can read from that.

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Even the ones who do tend to have really thick accents and only speak a little bit of English, and the number of hispanics in the US is only projected to rise. Out of all the foreign languages it's possible to learn, Spanish is almost universally considered the most useful by a significant margin, so being fluent is almost never a bad thing to have on your resume, and it's been that way for the last 20 years at LEAST.