New York, Paris, London or Tokyo?

[OdinHades]

Faelco said:

 

OdinHades said:

Tokyo! I started learning japanese about 2 months ago just to prepare myself for a trip to the city! At first I was really intimitaded by the language and for years I thought it would be impossible for me to learn it. Turns out I was totally wrong. You just need the right motivation and you need to learn everyday. At some point it just clicks. Now after just 8 weeks I know each and every character of ひらがな and カタカナ. Kanji are still a huge challenge, but I'm getting there!

 

You're now too optimistic sadly ^^". Basic Japanese isn't very hard and can just click, true, but more advanced Japanese is simply awful to understand and master... But good luck to you anyway!

Nah, I know that I will have to learn for at least a decade to become fluent, but that isn't my goal right now. For the next two years, I just want to understand the basics of the language, just so that I can get around in Japan, talk to people, understand them and also understand what's going on in japanese movies and games. From there I will continue to learn the language basically forever.

I handled it in the same way with my english . Once I had the basics figured out, I just started to watch movies and play games in english. In the beginning I had to look up a lot of words, but with time I more and more was able to just understand new words simply out of context. And even if I have trouble to perfectly express myself in english every now and then, I would say my skills in that language are quite respectable by now.