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I don't think it's very hard to learn by yourself, atleast not if you're not trying to learn how to speak the language. (Note: A huge load of Visual novels and Light Novels are not, and never will be translated into English) I'm not learning to speak nor write, I'm focusing only on the passive understanding. I'm personally studying "only" to understand Anime, Manga, Light Novels, Visual Novels, and other forms of Japanese entertainment. The problem would probably be that one would find it hard to motivate oneself just to read manga. Haha, why would this be a bad thing? I mean, is there really a good reason to want to learn japanese? I think wanting to learn japanese to read manga is a splendid reason, much better than "I may or may not move to Japan one day" or something shady like that. Please don't tell me you're considering taking up this years-long endeavour just so you can read manga in the original. you find you really enjoy the language itself, and the culture, and the subtleties) I doubt you will be able to stick with it for very long.Īnyway, regardless of all that, I wish you the best luck!
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But it is such a large and complex undertaking that unless you have more motive than that (i.e. That was my original motivation when I was younger, anyway. I wonder why you want to learn Japanese, if all you want to do is read it? If it's just so you can read manga, novels, or games and such, well. Preferably someone roughly at your learning level who you can learn stuff with, along with someone very experienced who really knows the language well.
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For the rest, if traditional learning is off the table, I would consult online guides and maybe books, and find some learning partners. But that much you can actually learn on your own. Then again, I was in actual Japanese classes after I'd learnt basic sounds and kana, so there is that. I've fallen behind on my kanji and vocab studies and haven't done structured learning in a long time, but when I was, it was pretty quick. That's what I did when I was first learning, more or less, and I assimilated quite a lot pretty quickly. After you've gotten enough down that you can have a basic conversation aloud or written in kana, then you should try to learn at least a few kanji a week. Then memorize hiragana, then katakana, then focus on learning lots of grammar and vocab and such. Listen to Japanese being spoken by native speakers. Speaking is easy, so first I would learn the vowel sounds, recite the alphabet, etc. The basic kana are phonetic so that, at least, is really easy to learn how to read aloud. Only focusing on reading would actually make learning Japanese harder, I would think.