I tried learning it once, probably about a decade ago. I used that Rosetta Stone language software for it. I got through the first chapter okay, but the second chapter taught the difference between "older sister" and "younger sister" and such, but it used photos of pajeets and I couldn't tell them apart. Without being able to tell what term I was expected to write, I crashed and burned, and after that I basically gave up and never made another attempt.

>>87 >I pick it up and put it back down ever couple of months. That's what I have done. Learning by studying really hasn't worked for me (I didn't really have to study English, but here I am anyway), but I can't read enough to use the language either. I think I need to focus on learning grammar and a smaller set of important words and sentences. Next attempt I will focus on that and hopefully it will work. Not even worrying about kanji until much later, because at this point I know that trying to learn them is a waste of time until you can somewhat comfortably read anything with furigana. Trying to learn words and their various meanings, and the grammar, and the kanji along with their various pronunciations and meanings... that's too much to do at once. I have to narrow things down to the essentials, and then master that, and then once I can read I should learn a lot of things through exposure.

>>89 >Rosetta Stone better to suck it up and watch childern's videos on youtube https://youtu.be/K-nw5EUxDz0

I learned a little grammar from a Japanese app on the android store while it was free but now they charge a subscription so I deleted it. I'm on and off learning the kana and katakana using the neocities kana tool. Sometimes I can read enough kana to look up words from an image! It's been a few months now but I want to get back to learning it. Reading Japanese would be amazing and being able to hear it would be even more amazing. I think I'll get there eventually but I have more pressing things to do before I can fully focus on learning it.

I kicked off learning it with Genki textbook, you can shit on it all you want for conventional grammar explanations, but it's greatly tailored for total novices in the way that it hand holds you to level up to at least pre-intermediate (although it would be better to practice the language outside of the material in the book of course), took me about 3 month to cover all of the main studying course, the workbook, 300 something kanji (learned just to recognize them though, not to draw), and the reading/writing section, My anki card count had been at around 3000 by the time I finished. Now I'm 4 month in, and there's still nothing much to brag about of course, but I think I'm on the right track, I'm subscribed to many youtubers, bookmarked a lot of sites and forums that teach Japanese, and pirated a ton of scanned books and dictionaries and whatnot, there's so much content and lessons to go from, it's just a blessing living in the digital era and having unlimited time on my hands. I'd say learning a new language is a very fulfilling experience and a good change of pace from jerking off and shitposting all day in my neet life. I with full confidence say that I pretty much don't want anything else from my life other than Japanese, all the content that I like is being produced in it, all the things and people I'm interested in is in it. there's literally no excuse not learn it all day every day, if I only I didn't get sidetracked by being hooked up to some video games again in the last few weeks, but I'm sure this phase won't drive me off my goal of course, mastery of Japanese is the only thing I could call a dream, without which everything else would seem like a waste.