| FiveOVER said: How long did it took you until you can enjoy the games without needing to flip through the dictionary every minute or so. Thinking of learning but discouraged by the time required. |
A couple of years I think. I didn't start out with the intention of learning japanese though, so I think it can be done in a year.
After watching hundreds of different anime series, I was able to understand the spoken language, then I thought since I understand voice might as well learn the letters. After learning Hiragana, you can read most shonnen/shoujo manga easily since they have furigana. When reading you can see the kanji and try to learn them. Off course eventully I had to learn kanji the traditional way, but honestly most of my learning experience was fun since it was basically reading manga and watching anime(also playing VN and using agth + ITH + Translation aggregator to capture text).
