I'm gonna confine myself in my house for three months and do absolutely nothing except study Japanese...

Nothing yet but i kinda want to either pick up a pokemon game or DQ sometime soon to help reinforce my studying.

Yes you will be able to "read" visual novels. However you'll probably have to spend 5 minutes on each line looking up every word. Wouldn't recommend.

imagine unironically spending YEARS to learn the most difficult language in the world just so you can fap to slightly more authentic anime picture books
this just REEKS mental illness

The mentally ill people are the ones posting cope about how other people shouldn't be pursuing skills and knowledge simply because the poster is too stupid or lazy to acquire the same thing themselves.

oh no, imagine learning a new language. Imagine using that knowledge to read the media you enjoy. This is just unbelievable! Who does that???

imagine unironically spending YEARS to learn the most difficult language in the world just for the sheer joy of the challenge and learning process plus even getting an extra side bonus at the end like getting to play some games earlier than others
this just REEKS comfiness

Stop posting new images you fucking retards, I don't want to have to add new hashes every week.

>the most difficult language in the world
Japanese is not Mandarin.

What's wrong big boy
Can't learn japanese?

>years
lmao who the fuck has time for that shit

I'd rather be an EOP for life than waste 3 years of my life on that

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Learning a language is a time commitment. You need to immerse in your target language if you want to have any hope of achieving a decent level of fluency. Those are just the cold facts, OP.

Mandarin is easier because each character has one and only one reading. Also caveman grammar.

Wrong. 2 hours a day first half a year and then playing shit you might enjoy later on every day is not a big deal.

P4G

Except you arent playing it
you're limping through it unable to enjoy anything because you need to stop every 3 seconds to open up a fucking dictionary

>read a VN
>have to look up the same kanji 3 times in an hour when the meaning keeps slipping off my mind
My brain has reached its expiration date, it's all over for me

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Its not really a waste if you commit to it. Just a single month in and you can get the basics of simple sentences.

Just 15 minutes a day doing actual work on learning (flashcards). Then you can do whatever you want, personally I spent a large amount of time watching anime while playing runescape. Or you can play games in Japanese. After about 6 months of flashcards you should be able to play them rather comfortably. If you don't want to have to use a dictionary constantly, then play a less text heavy game, like monster hunter or something. Plenty of flexibility and options since there is so much different media available in Japanese. In that sense it is the easiest language to learn (if you know English)

Happens to me with my reps. That particular kanji will sink in after a day or so.

Latest games I've played in grorious nihongo are BotW and AI Somnium Files, which had great puns and shit in it.
BotW also felt extra "Japanese" compared to previous installments in the series, but I can't really tell why.

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>Spend 6 months doing shit you dont want to do and playing games you don't want to play and then maybe, just maybe you can take the first step in doing what you actually want to do if you even still care at that point
lol

DQXI on switch has furigana and is pretty simple even without it. There's a free demo that's about 8 hours worth of the game.

This is the best book you can buy for learning kanji. Get it. It's cheap.

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You will learn like 10 moonrunes the first day then browse Zig Forums for two month

There's really no reason to learn Japanese in 2020. All the good Jap content is dying out with the boomers and the zoomers are so hung up on trying to be American they can't make anything of value.

I forgot it had a demo but that was the one I was eyeing.

If you don't want to play Japanese games, or watch japanese anime/shows, or read Japanese books, or listen to Japanese podcasts, why would you want to learn Japanese? If you hate all Japanese media then don't learn Japanese.

ngmi

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Are there any text hookers that work for SNES emulators?

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DQX and I think the first expansion are also completely free to play.

>buying kanji books
just read shit and learn the kanji and words as you look them up in a dictionary

I do I just don't care enough to play some shit like monster hunter of all fucking games as training wheels as step 20 of 300 on the path to play the shit I would actually care to play

Text hookers are a meme just get the drawing keyboard on your phone.

Just to the JET program or some shit for a couple of years, you wont learn shit unless youre actually there.

Now mind you, if youre white most nips will be impressed you know any nipspeak at all, so it wont be a big deal if youre shit at first.

It will take at least 2 years to reach a comfortable level.

ngmi

I don't know, user. I finished playing through my first eroge 6 months in. Sure, it had very simplistic language (I swear they write them so even children can easily read them lol) but after that I was confident enough to try harder material. Now I can sort of read almost anything and guess it's meaning even if I can't read it out loud but I still try to remember words pronunciation and shit in case I hear them without text.

already made it bro, i think i'll be fine, thanks

>9 months
>MNN Lesson 21
how long will it take me to JLPT3? I feel I could pass JLPT5 easily right now.

honestly, texthooker+google translate and/or deepl is so good now, I don't see much of the point in continuing learning japanese anymore...
I'm thinking of finally playing sayonara wo oshiete with this method.

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