About 4 years haha. Like about an hour a day with several different apps (pimsleur, mango, duolingo, anki, renshuu), talking to a tandem partner once a week, reading a bit in books and consuming some games and anime in Japanese only. But learning is exhausting for me and I can't retain vocabulary well. I am now at a point that I feel confident having a conversation with a kind person who talks slowly about a topic that is not too complicated (what we did and how we felt and such things, or recounting a story). :D
1 year, 3 months. It's the hardest I've ever worked on anything and it's easy to get discouraged, but I like being able to see my progress on renshuu so it helps with keeping perspective
Probably 2 or 2.5 years? I actually didn’t even think it would be important to mark the time I started learning, but I know it wasn’t that long ago. I started with Duolingo, and then recently switched to renshuu about 9 months ago… I think.
I started in 2010, worked about a year til N4 and then stopped. I started again in April this year, casually. Then I quickly found renshuu and with that started serious every day study. I want to read Harry Potter in japanese. ☺️
I started in 2020, but didn’t learn much besides hiragana and katakana before I quited. Now I started studying seriously again in July and I already learnt more than I did back in 2020.
1 year, 3 months. It's the hardest I've ever worked on anything and it's easy to get discouraged, but I like being able to see my progress on renshuu so it helps with keeping perspective
Very relatable.
I've only been hardcore studying Japanese for about 2.5 months, been studying somewhat for about 6 months before that, and been casually absorbing various Japanese since early childhood.
It can be tough to learn at times, but it is very rewarding and fun to me, and I am very invested, as I would like to move to Japan soon.
