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    All us former or present weebs that once learned Hiragana, Katakana, maybe 5 words and phrases, and basically nothing else, understand. (And the people actually speaking Japanese, too)

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      You can’t learn Japanese from anime alone

      If you think you can then あなたはバカ

      (Please do not reply to me in Japanese because I can’t communicate it in fluently yet because I’m still learning it)

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        Oh, back then I totally also used… some websites I found on google. And, uhm… I think I remember printing out a torrented professional Japanese handbook, making a fancy folder to put it in and then… never actually using it. :D

        As you can see, teenage/young adult me was very realistic and very committed!

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          I am committed to it right now but currently keeping an eye on a cyclone (hurricane for americans) to make sure it doesn’t hit land

          Hoping it’ll just pass by

          I do have a procrastination problem as well that I somehow need to get over

          Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I’m aware of there being torrents for it

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          Reminds me of probably the most pretentious thing I ever did: as a teenager in the late 90s, I tried to learn Russian in order to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the original 😆

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        Anime is a really good tool if it’s something you’re into. Just have a dictionary pulled up if you hear words you don’t know. I’ve been studying Japanese for ~5 years now and the first 2 years were mostly just listening to anime and doing kanji flashcards. You can get surprisingly far with just anime, but yeah it can’t be the only tool. 勉強は頑張ってください 🙂